Maison Laplante · Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0
1historic place on the registers
History of Weedon · Canada’s heritage registers
Weedon keeps its older homes: 38% from before 1961
Against 18% in the typical town, Weedon has 2.2 times the share. Canada’s heritage registers list 1 historic place inside the town. For its size this is rich ground: 3.5 per 10,000 residents, ahead of 91% of Canadian towns. Maison Laplante, from 1880, is the town’s municipal citation (québec).
National Historic Sites, classified federal buildings and Québec’s classements
Provincial and local listings
1
municipal citations on Québec’s register
Oldest building
1880
the first construction date on its record
Homes built before 1961
38%
typical town: 18%
How it began
Weedon’s beginnings, from 1863
It was in 1863 that Weedon was founded. It has been 163 years since then. A single date stands for Weedon as a municipality on Wikidata, December 11, 1996, and it may be an incorporation rather than a founding.
In 1996 the municipality took over from Weedon and Weedon-Centre.
The registers find 44 places within 50 km of Weedon
The first one out is Cimetière Gisla, 26 km away in Nantes. Église d'Eaton Corner, 39 km off, is the oldest: 1840. They belong to 13 towns, chiefly Sherbrooke, Lambton and East Angus.
The 12 nearest, within 50 km
Cimetière GislaCited heritage site (Québec) · 26 km away, in Nantes
Only 2.3% of Weedon’s homes were built from 2016 to 2021 (4.1% is typical)
Weedon built little from 2001 to 2015: 11% of its homes, where most towns have 15%. Half of the homes standing in Weedon today were built before 1981. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up 27% of Weedon’s, about the typical 27%.
38%
Before 1961
27%
1961–80
21%
1981–2000
11%
2001–15
2.3%
2016–21
WeedonTypical 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
Weedon has the 2nd most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 2,800 to 2,900 residents, by places on the registers.
The 2021 Census dates 38% of Weedon’s homes before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 1 historic place. Only one of the 16 towns nearest its size has more historic places. The rest is about typical: Napoléon-Pierre Tanguay (1862) is its person of the past on the record; and its designation dates from 2004.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
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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.
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Québec’s register. Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel records the province’s classements and declarations and every municipal citation, each with a description and a point.
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The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
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The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
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The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
Questions about Weedon’s history
How old are the homes in Weedon?
The 2021 Census dates 38% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
How many historic places does Weedon have on the registers?
1 historic place inside Weedon, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
What is the oldest building in Weedon?
Maison Laplante — its record dates it to 1880 (Municipal citation (Québec)).
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.
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