Quebec Heritage Sites Cited by Municipalities and Indigenous Communities

Heritage sites cited by municipalities and indigenous communities in Quebec, made available by the Ministry of Culture and Communications. The data is part of the heritage protected under the Cultural Heritage Act and is registered in the Quebec Cultural Heritage Register. It was last updated on 2026-04-22 and is provided under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Mapping cultural heritage assets based on the described geographic coordinates.
• Analyzing municipal and indigenous community heritage designations mentioned in the description.
• Studying the distribution of protected real estate heritage under the Cultural Heritage Act.
• Integrating heritage site locations with other geospatial datasets for regional planning.

Strengths

• Data is provided under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Multiple file formats (KML, CSV, WMS) are available for different use cases.
• Data is sourced from the authoritative Quebec Cultural Heritage Register maintained by the Ministry.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Geographic coordinates are described as indicative points, not property perimeters, and may lack legal significance.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Official registry data from the Quebec Cultural Heritage Register.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 18:02:25.700165; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Quebec, Canada