The Government and Municipalities of Québec conducted a pre-inventory of buildings and structures of heritage interest in Laval. This work, updated in 2026, was carried out to confirm the existence of structures inventoried in a 1981 study and evaluate their interest for future heritage inventories. The dataset is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Identify buildings of potential heritage interest based on the pre-inventory evaluation criteria.
- Cross-reference structures with a 1981 historical inventory to confirm their existence.
- Support municipal heritage planning by judging the interest of including structures in future inventories.
Strengths
- Dataset is provided under a CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse.
- The pre-inventory was conducted to confirm structures from a specific 1981 historical study.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Government and Municipalities of Québec
- Collection Method
- Pre-inventory evaluation of buildings and structures to judge heritage interest.
- Time Range
- Pre-inventory conducted in 2015, referencing a 1981 study.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:50:44.929444; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- City of Laval, Québec.