Rivière du Loup, Quebec (1861–1921)

Name: Rivière du Loup
Address: Quebec, CA

Rivière du Loup was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in 7 censuses between 1861 and 1921. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q141410, 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 2,980 in 1861 to 1,310 in 1921).

Historical lineage

Descendant places

later split into Louiseville, Town—Ville in 1881

Population trajectory across census years

Census year	Population	Page
1861	2,980	View 1861 detail →
1871	2,925	View 1871 detail →
1881	1,863	View 1881 detail →
1891	2,099	View 1891 detail →
1901	1,249	View 1901 detail →
1911	1,305	View 1911 detail →
1921	1,310	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 7 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
Étienne Mayrand	1776–1872	died here
Édouard Caron	1830–1900	born and died here
Ernest Gagnon	1834–1915	born here
Gustave Gagnon	1842–1930	born here
Augustin Desrosiers	1847–1927	died here
Frédéric Houde	1847–1884	born here
Henri Béland	1869–1935	born here

Identifiers

Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC069003_1891 — assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap
Wikidata: Q141410
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louiseville
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louiseville

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.