Quebec Heritage Buildings Cited by Municipalities and Indigenous Communities

Heritage buildings protected under Quebec's Cultural Heritage Act are listed in this official register. The Ministry of Culture and Communications provides this data in KML, CSV, and WMS formats under a CC-BY-4.0 license. Note that geographic coordinates are indicative points for location, not legal property boundaries, and some entries may lack coordinates entirely.

Use Cases

• Mapping the distribution of cultural heritage sites based on available geographic coordinates.
• Analyzing municipal and indigenous community heritage designations based on the cited building records.
• Studying the application of the Cultural Heritage Act (L.R.Q., c. 21) based on the registered property information.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative Quebec Ministry of Culture and Communications.
• Available in multiple interoperable formats: KML, CSV, and WMS.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Geographic coordinates are described as indicative points, not legal property perimeters.
• Some heritage elements may lack coordinates and be absent from maps.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Registered in the Quebec Cultural Heritage Register (Répertoire du Patrimoine Culturel du Québec) under the Cultural Heritage Act.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 18:11:40.134608; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Quebec, Canada