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Maison Prévost · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0For its size Sainte-Claire is rich ground: 8.1 per 10,000 residents, ahead of 97% of Canadian towns. The oldest dated place, Maison Prévost, goes back to 1911. Designations here include 3 municipal citations.
Among them: Maison Prévost and Maison du Docteur-Joseph-Arthur-Noé-Chabot. Photos show 2 of the places Sainte-Claire’s registers name; the others show their record instead.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the place’s page. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
The municipality succeeded Louis-Joliette and Sainte-Claire in 1977. On the open record, Sainte-Claire as a municipality goes back to October 1, 1977, though that may be a charter rather than a first settlement.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.
Federal designations come from Parks Canada; Québec’s own register adds what the province has classified and what the municipality has cited.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Designations came from 1999 to 2013. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. They date from 1911 (Maison Prévost) to 1960. Each one opens its own page.
Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up just 21% of Sainte-Claire’s, against 27% in the typical town. Before 1961: 28% of Sainte-Claire’s homes, against 18% in most towns. 18% of Sainte-Claire’s homes were built from 2001 to 2015, more than the typical town’s 15%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Of the 5, 3 were born in the decades after Confederation. Fame, by Wikipedia: François Fortunat Rouleau first, in 4 languages. The record holds 5 people born here before 1914. Longest lived was J.-Eugène Bissonnette, 88 years in all (1980).
Everyone born in Sainte-Claire → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Towns of 3,700 to 3,700 residents, by places on the registers.
Their median is 0. 14 of them have none.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Claire | 3,724 | 3 | 0 | 1911 |
| Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse | 1,330 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sainte-Hénédine | 1,550 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Anselme | 4,534 | 1 | 0 | 1930 |
| Sainte-Marguerite | 1,297 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Saint-Malachie | 1,755 | 1 | 0 | 1917 |
| Saint-Gervais | 2,235 | 1 | 1 | 1817 |
Sainte-Claire has 28% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. All told, the registers hold 3 historic places. Of the 16 towns closest in size, it has the most historic places. Of its people of the past, the best known are François Fortunat Rouleau (1849), J.-Eugène Bissonnette (1892) and Gustave Côté (1913). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the list grew between 1999 and 2013.
3 historic places inside Sainte-Claire, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
By its record, Maison Prévost, from 1911 (Municipal citation (Québec)).
28% 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). Québec register data: Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec, CC BY 4.0.
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec (MCC, Données Québec) · 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).
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