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History of Saint-Wenceslas · Canada’s heritage registers

Older housing stands out in Saint-Wenceslas: 33% predates 1961

For Saint-Wenceslas, that is 1.9 times the typical town’s share, 18%. Church of St Gregory, 20 km from Saint-Wenceslas, heads a list of 101 historic places within 50 km. The nearest town with a top designation is Bécancour, 19 km away. François-Joseph Laflèche heads a list of 2 people born in Saint-Wenceslas before 1914.

Historic places within 50 km

101

44 of the highest designation

Nearest historic place

20 km

Church of St Gregory

Homes built before 1961

33%

typical town: 18%

Born here before 1914

the earliest in 1879

Through time

The old face of Saint-Wenceslas

A single old picture: one old photograph of the town. It opens full screen with a tap.

Confederation to 1900Saint-Wenceslas d Aston 1890Public domain

Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.

How it began

The record of Saint-Wenceslas, from 1864 on

A reorganization in 1864 folded in Aston. The date Wikidata keeps for Saint-Wenceslas is July 1, 1864; whether it was a founding or a legal act, the entry leaves open. The name of Saint-Wenceslas honours Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, duke and saint.

The name St. Wenceslas lasted until 1969, when Saint-Wenceslas took another.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0).

The age of the area

Near Saint-Wenceslas (50 km around), the dated heritage is mostly from the decades after Confederation

No place near Saint-Wenceslas is close: these lie up to 50 km away, each by its first recorded construction date.

New France before 176010

British North America 1760–186624

After Confederation 1867–191334

Wars and Depression 1914–194516

Since 1946 1946 on2

Fort Trois-Rivières, in Trois-Rivières, goes back furthest, to 1634. The chart rests on 86 dated places within 50 km. 34 are older than 1867.

Around the town

101 places on Canada’s registers lie 50 km or less from Saint-Wenceslas

The record reaches back to 1634 with Fort Trois-Rivières, 27 km away. Church of St Gregory in Bécancour is the nearest, 20 km away. By designation: 54 municipal citations, 40 places classified by Québec and 4 National Historic Sites.

The 12 nearest, within 50 km

Church of St GregoryClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1803–1806 · 20 km away, in Bécancour

Palais de justice de NicoletMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1910–1912 · 24 km away, in Nicolet

Atelier et maison Rodolphe-DuguayClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1854 · 25 km away, in Nicolet

Séminaire de NicoletClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1827–1836 · 25 km away, in Nicolet

Fort Trois-RivièresNational Historic Site · 1634 · 27 km away, in Trois-Rivières

Maison BlancheClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1700 · 27 km away, in Trois-Rivières

Place d'ArmesClassified heritage building (Québec) · 27 km away, in Trois-Rivières

Site patrimonial des Récollets-de-Trois-RivièresClassified heritage site (Québec) · 27 km away, in Trois-Rivières

Vieux-Trois-RivièresDeclared heritage site (Québec) · 27 km away, in Trois-Rivières

Trois-Rivières Historical ComplexNational Historic Site · 1700–1830 · 27 km away, in Trois-Rivières

Maison Georges-De GannesClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1756 · 27 km away, in Trois-Rivières

Hertel-De La Fresnière HouseClassified heritage building (Québec) · 1824–1829 · 27 km away, in Trois-Rivières

Homes by age

7% of Saint-Wenceslas’s homes are from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)

Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up just 18% of Saint-Wenceslas’s, against 23% in the typical town. Over half of the homes in Saint-Wenceslas were already standing by 1981. Building from 1961 to 1980 gave Saint-Wenceslas 30% of its homes, near the usual 27%.

33%

Before 1961

30%

1961–80

18%

1981–2000

14%

2001–15

2016–21

Saint-WenceslasTypical town

2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.

Neighbours

Saint-Wenceslas and its neighbours

Town	People	Places	Highest	Oldest
Saint-Wenceslas	1,202	0	0	—
Sainte-Eulalie	1,056	0	0	—
Saint-Léonard-d'Aston	2,662	0	0	—
Daveluyville	2,477	0	0	—
Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil	1,950	0	0	—
Bécancour	14,943	3	3	1774

In brief

Saint-Wenceslas in brief

In Saint-Wenceslas, 33% of homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Beyond that, François-Joseph Laflèche (1879) and Georges Héon (1902) are its people of the past on the record.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
Québec’s register. The Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec is open data, so the province’s own designations and its municipalities’ citations are here in full.
The federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
Protection. A place classified or cited under Québec’s law is protected; National Historic Site status alone protects only what the federal government owns.
The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.

Questions about Saint-Wenceslas’s history

How many historic places does Saint-Wenceslas have on the registers?

None inside Saint-Wenceslas yet. The nearest, Church of St Gregory, carries the highest designation, 20 km away in Bécancour.

How old are the homes in Saint-Wenceslas?

33% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian 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).