Lévis, Quebec

Lévis was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1861–1921 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 Q2991311.

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.

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1861 census

• Notre-Dame de la Victoire wd (pop 6,694)
• St. Etienne de Lauzon wd (pop 762)
• St. Henri (pop 2,656)
• St. Jean Chrysostôme wd (pop 2,500)
• St. Joseph de la Pointe Lévis and Convent (pop 3,014)
• St. Lambert (pop 1,646)
• St. Nicolas wd (pop 2,219)
• St. Romuald (pop 2,600)

1881 census

• Bienville, Village wd (pop 1,022)
• Lauzon, T-V wd (pop 3,556)
• Lévis, C wd (pop 7,597)
• Notre-Dame de la Victoire wd (pop 1,137)
• St. David de l'Aube Rivière (pop 935)
• St. Etienne de Lauzon wd (pop 810)
• St. Henri (pop 2,468)
• St. Jean Chrysostôme wd (pop 1,924)
• St. Joseph de Lévis wd (pop 1,128)
• St. Lambert de Lauzon wd (pop 1,516)
• St. Nicolas wd (pop 2,246)
• St. Romuald (pop 3,641)

1891 census

• Bienville, Village wd (pop 840)
• Lauzon, T-V wd (pop 3,551)
• Lévis, C wd (pop 7,301)
• Notre-Dame de la Victoire wd (pop 1,496)
• St. David de l'Auberivière wd (pop 629)
• St. Etienne de Lauzon wd (pop 803)
• St. Henri (pop 2,243)
• St. Jean Chrysostôme wd (pop 1,802)
• St. Joseph de Lévis wd (pop 351)
• St. Lambert de Lauzon wd (pop 1,433)
• St. Nicolas wd (pop 1,768)
• St. Romuald (pop 3,545)
• St. Télesphore (pop 233)

1901 census

• Bienville, Village wd (pop 851)
• Lauzon, T-V wd (pop 3,416)
• Lévis, C wd (pop 7,783)
• Notre-Dame de la Victoire wd (pop 1,459)
• St. David de l'Auberivière wd (pop 718)
• St. Etienne de Lauzon wd (pop 854)
• St. Henri (pop 2,180)
• St. Jean Chrysostôme wd (pop 1,757)
• St. Joseph de Lévis wd (pop 401)
• St. Lambert de Lauzon wd (pop 1,280)
• St. Nicolas wd (pop 1,627)
• St. Romuald (pop 3,589)
• St. Télesphore (pop 295)

1911 census

• Bienville, Village wd (pop 1,004)
• Lauzon, T-V wd (pop 3,978)
• Lévis, C wd (pop 7,452)
• Notre Dame de Charny wd (pop 1,408)
• Notre-Dame de la Victoire wd (pop 1,251)
• St. David de l'Auberivière wd (pop 738)
• St. Etienne de Lauzon wd (pop 1,024)
• St. Henri de Lauzon wd (pop 2,026)
• St. Jean Chrysostôme wd
• St. Joseph de Lévis wd (pop 265)
• St. Lambert de Lauzon wd (pop 1,308)
• St. Louis de Pintendre wd (pop 924)
• St. Nicolas wd (pop 1,543)
• St. Romuald (pop 3,993)
• St. Télesphore
• Ste. Hélène de Breakeyville wd (pop 731)

1921 census

• Bienville, Village wd (pop 1,462)
• Lauzon, T-V wd (pop 4,966)
• Lévis, C wd (pop 10,470)
• Notre Dame de Charny wd (pop 2,265)
• St. David de l'Auberivière wd (pop 833)
• St. Etienne de Lauzon wd (pop 683)
• St. Henri de Lauzon wd (pop 1,615)
• St. Henri, VL wd (pop 417)
• St. Jean Chrysostôme wd (pop 1,130)
• St. Joseph de Lévis wd (pop 252)
• St. Lambert de Lauzon wd (pop 1,189)
• St. Louis de Pintendre wd (pop 942)
• St. Nicholas (pop 818)
• St. Nicholas S. (pop 655)
• St. Romuald (pop 3,825)
• St. Rédempteur, VL (pop 537)
• St. Télesphore (pop 259)
• Ste. Hélène de Breakeyville wd (pop 1,005)

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 Dorchester in 1861.
• Split into Lévis (Comté), Lévis (Ville) in 1871.
• Re-formed from Lévis (Comté), Lévis (Ville) in 1881.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Lévis
• Wikidata: Q2991311
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_L%C3%A9vis

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.