Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.0Beyond Saint-Thomas’s limits, 5 historic places within 10 km
From Saint-Thomas, look 7.2 km away, to Joliette, for the nearest place of the highest designation. As a municipality it dates, by Wikidata, from 1790, a date that can mark incorporation or a merger as well as a founding.
Saint-Thomas’s surroundings: 5 historic places within 10 km
The mix: 2 municipal citations, a National Historic Site and a heritage railway station. For the highest designations, the nearest of 2 is Joliette Court House, 7.3 km away. They stand in 2 towns, Joliette and Saint-Paul among them.
The 5 nearest, within 10 km
| St Charles Borromeo CathedralMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1887–1892 · 6.9 km away, in Joliette |
| Évêché de JolietteMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1880 · 7 km away, in Joliette |
| Joliette Court HouseNational Historic Site · 1860–1863 · 7.3 km away, in Joliette |
| Canadian National Railways Station, Joliette, QuebecHeritage Railway Station · 1901–1902 · 7.5 km away, in Joliette |
| Église Saint-PaulClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1803–1804 · 8.3 km away, in Saint-Paul |
The places within 10 km of Saint-Thomas lean to the decades after Confederation
The area, not the town: places within 10 km of Saint-Thomas, dated by the first construction year on their records.
5 places within 10 km carry a construction date. 2 predate Confederation. Oldest of all: Église Saint-Paul, Saint-Paul, 1803.
New homes stand out in Saint-Thomas: 6.8% from 2016–21, where most towns have 4.1%
21% of Saint-Thomas’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%. At 24%, Saint-Thomas’s share of pre-1961 homes is above the typical town’s 18%. The busiest building years in Saint-Thomas were from 1981 to 2000, which account for 24% of today’s homes.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Saint-Thomas compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,500 to 3,500 residents, by places on the registers.
Only Wellington has more. The typical town its size has 0. 15 of them have nothing on the registers.
Saint-Thomas and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Thomas | 3,477 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Joliette | 22,408 | 4 | 1 | 1860 |
| Saint-Paul | 7,208 | 1 | 1 | 1803 |
| Notre-Dame-des-Prairies | 9,622 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée | 16,904 | 1 | 1 | 1840 |
| Sainte-Élisabeth | 1,473 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lanoraie | 5,694 | 1 | 1 | 1835 |
Saint-Thomas in brief
Before 1961: 24% of Saint-Thomas’s homes, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. Québec’s classements and citations carry legal protection: work on a classified building needs the minister’s authorization, on a cited one the municipality’s. Federal designations commemorate.
- The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- Québec’s register. Québec is the one province whose register is open: classements, declarations and municipal citations, described by the ministry in French.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- The tiers. National Historic Sites and the most protected buildings form the top tier; recognized federal buildings, stations and lighthouses the second; provincial and municipal listings the third.
Questions about Saint-Thomas’s history
How many historic places does Saint-Thomas have on the registers?
Not inside Saint-Thomas. The closest is St Charles Borromeo Cathedral in Joliette, 6.9 km away.
When did Saint-Thomas become a municipality?
The date Wikidata holds for Saint-Thomas is 1790, whether founding, incorporation or merger.
How old are the homes in Saint-Thomas?
The 2021 Census dates 24% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).