The Monseigneur Tache Historic Site, municipally designated in 1989, is a good example of the kind of ecclesiastical compound that defined many French-Canadian villages in southeastern Manitoba, the heartland of French culture in rural Manitoba. Each element of the site – church, rectory and cemetery – is a fine representative of those traditional aspects of the culture. The church, whose towering spire is visible from a distance, is a modest example of ecclesiastical design traditions developed in Quebec in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and later recreated in French-Canadian villages of the Prairies. The rectory, a simple and modest building, is a fitting complement to the grander church building, and the cemetery, with its many elegant grave markers, is an important connection to the area’s pioneers. The church also continues its important local role as an integral part of the hamlet’s streetscape and as the village’s distinguishing feature.