Province: Quebec | Years recorded: 1851–1921 | Wikidata: Q141924

Boucherville, Quebec (1851–1921)

Name: Boucherville
Address: Quebec, CA

Boucherville was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in 8 censuses between 1851 and 1921. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q141924, so it can be queried as a single entity even when its boundaries or census name varied across years. Population declined across the period (from 2,764 in 1851 to 1,050 in 1921).

Historical lineage

Descendant places

later split into Boucherville, Village in 1861

Population trajectory across census years

Census year	Population	Page
1851	2,764	View 1851 detail →
1861	1,813	View 1861 detail →
1871	1,364	View 1871 detail →
1881	785	View 1881 detail →
1891	995	View 1891 detail →
1901	976	View 1901 detail →
1911	969	View 1911 detail →
1921	1,050	View 1921 detail →

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 15 people connected to this place across the 1851–1921 period, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry; the connection tag indicates whether the documented event was a birth, death, or burial at this place.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Xavier Malhiot	1781–1854	died here
Thomas-René-Verchères Boucher de Boucherville	1784–1857	born and died here
Jean-Baptiste Saint-Germain	1788–1863	born here
Jean Baptiste Réné Hertel de Rouville	1789–1859	died here
Pierre Laviolette	1794–1854	born here
Louis Lacoste	1798–1878	born and died here
Bonaventure Viger	1804–1877	born here
Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine	1807–1864	born here
Pierre-Claude Boucher de la Bruère	1808–1871	born here
Sicotte	1812–1889	born here
Louis-René Lacoste	1823–1854	born and died here
Eusèbe Senécal	1833–1902	born here
Sir Alexandre Lacoste	1842–1923	born here
Amanda Viger	1845–1906	born here
Étienne Desmarteau	1873–1905	born here

Identifiers

Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC046001 — assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap
Wikidata: Q141924
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boucherville
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boucherville

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1851–1921 Census of Canada series, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project. Each year's detail page (linked above) cites the specific source table.