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History of Sept-Îles · Canada’s heritage registers

Trains came to Sept-Îles in 1951

From 1863 to 1880, 2 old photographs record Sept-Îles. A further one sits a short way past the edge of town.

1just outside

Homes built before 1961

18%

typical town: 18%

Born here before 1914

the earliest in 1912

Through time

Old Sept-Îles, 1863 to 1880

Oldest first: 2 old photographs of the town. Every picture opens full screen, credit and all.

Before ConfederationSept-Îles, circa 1863Photo: William Hind · Public domain

Confederation to 1900Eglise de Sept-Iles vers 1880Public 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

Back to 1951: Sept-Îles’s first record

Rail service is on record from 1951, when Sept-Îles railway station opened. The date Wikidata keeps for Sept-Îles is February 12, 2003; whether it was a founding or a legal act, the entry leaves open.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0).

Just outside

Just outside Sept-Îles

Places the registers give to the town from within 5 km of its edge, nearest first.

Just outside Sept-Îles: 1

CorossolNational Historic Site · 100 m outside the town

Homes by age

New homes are rare in Sept-Îles: 1.6% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%

Sept-Îles built little from 1981 to 2000: 15% of its homes, where most towns have 23%. 57% of Sept-Îles’s homes date from 1961 to 1980, well above the typical 27%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 8.6% of Sept-Îles’s, against 15% in the typical town.

18%

Before 1961

57%

1961–80

15%

1981–2000

8.6%

2001–15

1.6%

2016–21

Sept-ÎlesTypical 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

How Sept-Îles compares with 16 towns its size

Towns of 24,100 to 25,000 residents, by places on the registers.

Agincourt South-Malvern West0

Sept-Îles0

10 of them are ahead. The middle one has 1. 6 of them have none.

Neighbours

Sept-Îles and its neighbours

Town	People	Oldest
Sept-Îles	24,483	—
Uashat 27	1,694	—
Maliotenam	1,683	—

In brief

Sept-Îles in brief

Housing in Sept-Îles includes 18% built before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 1 historic places. Everything else is close to the norm: one person of its past, Gustave Blouin (1912).

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 tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
Protection. In Québec, a classement or a municipal citation under the Loi sur le patrimoine culturel protects the building in law; a federal designation recognises significance and binds only federal owners.
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.
The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.

Questions about Sept-Îles’s history

How old are the homes in Sept-Îles?

Before 1961: 18% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.

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).