Site de l'église et du cimetière de Sainte-Luce · Photo: Guerinf · CC BY-SA 4.0

2historic places on the registers

History of Sainte-Luce · Canada’s heritage registers

One top designation among Sainte-Luce’s 2 historic places

Designations here include a municipal citation. Per resident Sainte-Luce outdoes 96% of Canadian towns, with 7.1 for every 10,000 people. Sainte-Luce Church, begun in 1838, is the oldest by its record. A further 2 sit a short way past the edge of town.

1highest designation 1838oldest building 2just outside

Historic places

7.1 per 10,000 residents

Highest designations

National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements

Provincial and local listings

municipal citations on Québec’s register

Oldest building

1838

the first construction date on its record

Homes built before 1961

31%

typical town: 18%

In pictures

2 photographs of Sainte-Luce’s designated places

Look out for Sainte-Luce Church and Site de l'église et du cimetière de Sainte-Luce. The photos cover both places on Sainte-Luce’s registers.

Sainte-Luce Church

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.

How it began

Sainte-Luce’s record begins in 2001

The municipality of Sainte-Luce has the date August 29, 2001 on Wikidata; the record doesn’t say whether it marks a founding or an incorporation. In 2001 the municipality took over from Luceville and Sainte-Luce-sur-Mer.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0).

The map

Where Sainte-Luce’s history is

Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.

Highest designationsProvincial and local listings

Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.

The 2, by tier

1 Highest designations1 Provincial and local listings

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.

Highest designations

One place in Sainte-Luce with the highest designation

National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Each one opens its own page.

Classified heritage building (Québec) · 1838–1840Sainte-Luce Church20 route du Fleuve OuestPhoto: Tango7174 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file

Provincial and local listings

On a provincial or local list in Sainte-Luce: one place

Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Each one opens its own page.

Cited heritage site (Québec)Site de l'église et du cimetière de Sainte-Luceroute du Fleuve OuestPhoto: Guerinf · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons file

Around the town

7 places on Canada’s registers lie 10 km or less from Sainte-Luce

For the highest designations, the nearest of 2 is Light Tower, 9.2 km away. By age, Saint-Anaclet Church leads, from 1857, at 8.7 km. The first one out is Presbytère de Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard, 8.6 km away in Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard.

The 7 nearest, within 10 km

Presbytère de Saint-Anaclet-de-LessardMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1858 · 8.6 km away, in Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard

Saint-Anaclet ChurchMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1857–1858 · 8.7 km away, in Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard

Saint-Anaclet StationMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1882 · 8.8 km away, in Rimouski

Forge Saint-LaurentMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1885 · 8.9 km away, in Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard

Fog Alarm BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1903–1904 · 9.1 km away, in Rimouski

Light TowerClassified Federal Heritage Building · 1909–1910 · 9.2 km away, in Rimouski

Pointe-au-Père LighthouseNational Historic Site · 1859–1976 · 9.2 km away, in Rimouski

Just outside Sainte-Luce: 2

Site patrimonial des Tours-de-Guet-de-Sainte-FlavieClassified heritage site (Québec) · 500 m outside the town

West WatchtowerMunicipal citation (Québec) · 1.5 km outside the town

Homes by age

Sainte-Luce keeps more old homes than most towns: 31% from before 1961, against 18%

Over half of the homes in Sainte-Luce were already standing by 1981. The largest single period is from 1961 to 1980, with 32% of Sainte-Luce’s homes. From 2016 on, Sainte-Luce built 5.8% of its homes; the typical town built 4.1%.

31%

Before 1961

32%

1961–80

19%

1981–2000

12%

2001–15

5.8%

2016–21

Sainte-LuceTypical town

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

Towns its size

Sainte-Luce has the 4th most of 16 towns its size

Towns of 2,800 to 2,800 residents, by places on the registers.

Sainte-Luce2

Only Lacolle, Ferme-Neuve and Yamachiche have more. The middle one has 0. 9 of them have nothing on the registers.

Neighbours

Sainte-Luce and its neighbours

Town	People	Places	Highest	Oldest
Sainte-Luce	2,808	2	1	1838
Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard	3,018	4	1	1790
Mont-Joli	6,492	3	1	1907
Rimouski	51,756	20	5	1744
Price	1,701	1	0	1891
Saint-Gabriel-de-Rimouski	1,239	0	0	—

In brief

Sainte-Luce in brief

Of the homes standing in Sainte-Luce, 31% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. There are 2 historic places in all, one with the highest designation; Sainte-Luce Church heads them. Only 3 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Everything else is close to the norm: the list grew between 1957 and 2002.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

The grade. History isn’t one of Canada’s graded pillars, so this page describes and compares without a letter.
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.
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 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.
Québec’s register. Québec is the one province whose register is open: classements, declarations and municipal citations, described by the ministry in French.
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.

Questions about Sainte-Luce’s history

Which places in Sainte-Luce have the highest designation?

Just one: Sainte-Luce Church.

How old are the homes in Sainte-Luce?

The 2021 Census dates 31% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).

What is the oldest building in Sainte-Luce?

Sainte-Luce Church, a Classified heritage building (Québec), begun in 1838.

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).