Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Site patrimonial des Ursulines-de-Trois-Rivières · Photo: DXR · CC BY-SA 4.0The lists give Trois-Rivières 29 historic places, 21 in the top tier. Measured against its size, 1.9 per 10,000 residents puts it ahead of 85% of Canadian towns. Among the places are 6 municipal citations, a Recognized Federal Heritage Building and a heritage railway station.
20 of the top-tier places in Trois-Rivières have a photo. Of the places on Trois-Rivières’s registers, 28 have a photo here. Open a place’s page for its old views: 17 places in Trois-Rivières have them.
Évêques-de-Trois-Rivières Mausoleum
Place d'Armes
Site patrimonial des Récollets-de-Trois-Rivières
Vieux-Trois-Rivières
Boucher-De Niverville Manor+23See all photosPhotos 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.
10 old photographs of the town, then the oldest views of 6 of its historic places, set out by date. Pick a dot to see the year; pick a picture to see it large.
c. 1610
c. 1865
1880
c. 1880
c. 1880
c. 1882
c. 1882
c. 1900
c. 1900
c. 1901
c. 1902
c. 1907
c. 1915
c. 1915
c. 1933
1945Public 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.
Each place by the first construction date on its record.
Before 1867: 14 of the 20 with a date.
By 1924 the place had a station: Trois-Rivières railway station. The municipality succeeded Trois-Rivières in 1846. As a municipality, Trois-Rivières carries the date July 1, 1846 on Wikidata: a founding, an incorporation or an amalgamation.
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Tap any dot to open that place’s own page; hovering shows its name.
Two open registers meet here: Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations and Québec’s heritage register, which records both provincial classements and municipal citations.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there. One place, placed by its register’s municipality, has no point and isn’t on the map.
The group holds 17 places classified by Québec and 4 National Historic Sites. National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings, Canada’s highest federal recognition. Fort Trois-Rivières is the earliest, from 1634; the latest dates from 1965. Each one opens its own page.
They were designated between 1990 and 1991. The group holds a Recognized Federal Heritage Building and a heritage railway station. Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings, heritage railway stations and lighthouses. Each one opens its own page.
All told, 8 kinds of place appear. Across Canada mills, shops and works are 7% of the designated places; here they are 17%. The top of the list holds Fort Trois-Rivières and Trois-Rivières Historical Complex.
The groups come from each place’s name and its recorded functions, by what it was built as.
Maison Rocheleau is the earliest, from 1742; the latest dates from 1929. Citations the municipality has made, registered with Québec’s ministry of culture. Designations came from 2000 to 2012. Each one opens its own page.
The places by the year of their designation.
The first was Forges du Saint-Maurice, in 1919. The busiest year was 1920, with 2. Since 2011, 4 more have joined the list.
From 2016 to 2021 Trois-Rivières added 4.9% of its homes, close to the typical town’s 4.1%. At 22%, Trois-Rivières’s share of pre-1961 homes is above the typical town’s 18%. Half of the homes standing in Trois-Rivières today were built before 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Fame, by Wikipedia: Maurice Duplessis first, in 20 languages. The latest, Léo Arbour, was born in 1912. Before 1914, 68 births here made the record. Léo Arbour lived longest, to 91, dying in 2003. Only the 20 best known fit the timeline.
Everyone born in Trois-Rivières → Born before 1914. Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against Wikipedia; national historic persons from Parks Canada’s Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, matched by name and life years.
Towns of 128,700 to 174,500 residents, by places on the registers.
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trois-Rivières | 149,934 | 29 | 21 | 1634 |
| Saint-Maurice | 3,804 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bécancour | 14,943 | 3 | 3 | 1774 |
| Nicolet | 8,737 | 3 | 2 | 1827 |
| Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel | 6,613 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Champlain | 1,957 | 3 | 1 | 1878 |
| Saint-Étienne-des-Grès | 4,675 | 0 | 0 | — |
All told, Trois-Rivières has 29 historic places, 21 with the highest designation. Before 1961: 22% of its homes, against 18% in the typical town. Fort Trois-Rivières sits at the heart of it, with 12 of the town’s places of the highest designation within 400 m. Only 3 of the 16 towns nearest its size have more historic places. Of its people of the past, the best known are Maurice Duplessis (1890), Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (1685) and Kenneth Stuart (1891).
Fort Trois-Rivières — its record dates it to 1634 (National Historic Site).
Fort Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières Historical Complex, Forges du Saint-Maurice, Battle of Trois-Rivières, Vieux-Trois-Rivières and Boucher-De Niverville Manor, and 15 more.
Before 1961: 22% of its homes; the typical town has 18%.
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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