Montréal (1881–1901), Quebec

Montréal (1881–1901) was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1881–1901 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. City of Montréal as census division (1921); not a historic county

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

1881 census

• Montreal, St. James Ward—Quartier St. Jacques wd (pop 25,398)
• Montreal, St. Mary’s Ward—Quartier Ste. Marie (pop 22,733)
• Montréal, Centre Ward—Quartier (pop 827)
• Montréal, East, Ward—Quartier (pop 2,966)
• Montréal, St. Antoine ward-quartier (pop 33,845)
• Montréal, St. Laurent ward-quartier (pop 14,318)
• Montréal, St. Louis Ward—Quartier (pop 19,375)
• Montréal, Ste. Anne’s, Ward—Quartier (pop 20,443)
• Montréal, West ward-quartier (pop 842)

1891 census

• Montreal, St. James Ward—Quartier St. Jacques wd (pop 32,393)
• Montreal, St. Mary’s Ward—Quartier Ste. Marie (pop 34,746)
• Montréal, Centre Ward—Quartier (pop 675)
• Montréal, East, Ward—Quartier (pop 3,437)
• Montréal, St. Antoine ward-quartier (pop 44,626)
• Montréal, St. Laurent ward-quartier (pop 17,884)
• Montréal, St. Louis Ward—Quartier (pop 24,924)
• Montréal, Ste. Anne’s, Ward—Quartier (pop 23,003)
• Montréal, West ward-quartier (pop 1,007)

1901 census

• NO DATA

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

• Re-formed from Montreal Centre, Montreal East, Montreal West in 1881.
• Split into Montréal, St. Antoine, Montréal, St. Jacques, Montréal, St. Laurent, Montréal, Ste. Anne, Montréal, Ste. Marie in 1901.
• Merged into Maisonneuve in 1911.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Montréal_1881

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.