Hochelaga, Quebec
Hochelaga was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1861–1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. This CD is grounded to Wikidata Q14875521.
Population trajectory across census years
Aggregate population summed from constituent Census Subdivisions in this Census Division each year. Where the published 1851–1921 census volumes report a CD-level total, the figures should match within rounding; for cities split into wards, the per-CSD sum may diverge from the published CD aggregate.
| Year | Population | CSDs |
|---|---|---|
| 1861 | 16,474 | 7 |
| 1871 | 25,640 | 10 |
| 1881 | 40,079 | 19 |
| 1891 | 80,998 | 22 |
| 1901 | 56,919 | 4 |
| 1911 | 75,049 | 4 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1861 census
- Côteau St. Louis (pop 1,746)
- Longue Pointe wd (pop 1,055)
- Montreal, St. Jean-Baptiste, Ward—Quartier (pop 2,269)
- Montréal, Parish wd (pop 6,385)
- Pointe aux Trembles, par. (pop 1,362)
- Rivière des Prairies (pop 1,056)
- Sault au Récollet (pop 2,601)
1871 census
- Côte des Neiges, Village (pop 842)
- Côte Visitation, Village (pop 460)
- Côteau St. Louis (pop 2,215)
- Hochelaga, Village (pop 1,061)
- Longue Pointe wd (pop 1,011)
- Montreal, St. Jean-Baptiste, Ward—Quartier (pop 4,408)
- Montréal, Paroisse wd (pop 11,405)
- Pointe aux Trembles, par. (pop 1,053)
- Rivière des Prairies (pop 779)
- Sault au Récollet (pop 2,406)
1881 census
- Côte des Neiges, Village (pop 988)
- Côte St. Antoine, Village wd (pop 884)
- Côte St. Paul (pop 142)
- Côte St. Paul, Village (pop 949)
- Côte Visitation, Village (pop 462)
- Hochelaga, Village (pop 4,111)
- Longue Pointe wd (pop 1,114)
- Montreal, St. Denis, Ward—Quartier (pop 1,571)
- Montreal, St. Jean-Baptiste, Ward—Quartier (pop 5,874)
- Montréal, Laurier ward-quartier (pop 1,537)
- Montréal, St. Gabriel ward-quartier (pop 4,506)
- Montréal, Ste. Cunégonde ward-quartier (pop 4,849)
- Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Village (pop 1,524)
- Outremont, C (pop 387)
- Pointe aux Trembles, par. (pop 1,063)
- Rivière des Prairies (pop 837)
- Sault au Récollet (pop 2,588)
- St. Henri, Town—Ville (pop 6,415)
- Verdun, Village wd (pop 278)
1891 census
- Côte des Neiges, Village (pop 391)
- Côte St. Antoine, Village wd (pop 3,076)
- Côte St. Paul (pop 475)
- Côte St. Paul, Village (pop 842)
- Côte Visitation, Village (pop 816)
- Longue Pointe wd (pop 2,445)
- Maisonneuve, Town—Ville (pop 1,226)
- Montreal, St. Denis, Ward—Quartier (pop 2,972)
- Montreal, St. Jean-Baptiste, Ward—Quartier (pop 15,423)
- Montréal, Hochelaga ward-quartier (pop 8,540)
- Montréal, Laurier ward-quartier (pop 3,537)
- Montréal, St. Gabriel ward-quartier (pop 9,986)
- Montréal, Ste. Cunégonde ward-quartier (pop 9,291)
- Notre-Dame des Neiges W-O (pop 933)
- Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Village (pop 2,305)
- Outremont, C (pop 408)
- Pointe aux Trembles, par. (pop 876)
- Rivière des Prairies (pop 761)
- Sault aux Récollets (pop 1,820)
- St. Henri, Town—Ville (pop 13,413)
- St. Léonard de Port Maurice, T-V wd (pop 1,166)
- Verdun, Village wd (pop 296)
1901 census
- Côte St. Antoine, Village wd (pop 8,856)
- Montréal, St. Gabriel ward-quartier (pop 15,959)
- Montréal, Ste. Cunégonde ward-quartier (pop 10,912)
- St. Henri, Town—Ville (pop 21,192)
1911 census
- Côte St. Antoine, Village wd (pop 14,579)
- Montréal, St. Gabriel ward-quartier (pop 18,961)
- Montréal, Ste. Cunégonde ward-quartier (pop 11,174)
- St. Henri, Town—Ville (pop 30,335)
Lineage
Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.
- Split off from Montréal (1851) in 1861.
- Merged into Laval, Maisonneuve in 1901.
- Split into Maisonneuve in 1901.
- Merged into Montréal & Jésus Islands—Iles in 1921.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_QC_Hochelaga - Wikidata: Q14875521
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochelaga_County,_Quebec
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_d%27Hochelaga
Sources
Census Division boundaries derived from the
Canadian Peoples / TCP
1851–1921 Census Subdivision boundary files (NAME_CD_<year> attributes,
hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan).
Constituent-CSD memberships use the P10_falls_within CIDOC-CRM relationships
emitted by the spatial CIDOC builder. Wikidata grounding for Census Divisions performed via the
HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph
project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology
page for the full data pipeline.