St. Hyacinthe, City—Cité, Quebec (1851–1921)

Name: St. Hyacinthe, City—Cité
Address: Quebec, CA

St. Hyacinthe, City—Cité was a city in Quebec, recorded in 8 censuses between 1851 and 1921. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q141873, so it can be queried as a single entity even when its boundaries or census name varied across years. Population grew substantially across the period (from 3,194 in 1851 to 10,859 in 1921).

Population trajectory across census years

Census year	Population	Page
1851	3,194	View 1851 detail →
1861	3,695	View 1861 detail →
1871	3,746	View 1871 detail →
1881	5,321	View 1881 detail →
1891	7,016	View 1891 detail →
1901	9,210	View 1901 detail →
1911	9,797	View 1911 detail →
1921	10,859	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 29 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
François Antoine Larocque	1784–1869	died here
T. (Thomas) Boutillier	1797–1861	died here
Jean-Charles Prince	1804–1860	died here
Siméon Marchesseault	1806–1855	died here
Joseph Casavant	1807–1874	died here
Joseph La Rocque	1808–1887	died here
Pierre-Claude Boucher de la Bruère	1808–1871	died here
Charles La Rocque	1809–1875	died here
Joseph-Sabin Raymond	1810–1887	born and died here
Isaac-Stanislas Lesieur-Désaulniers	1811–1868	died here
Sicotte	1812–1889	died here
Charles-Irénée Lagorce	1813–1864	born here
Louis Antoine Dessaulles	1818–1895	born here
Hilaire Millier	1823–1889	died here
Magloire Lanctôt	1823–1877	died here
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau	1824–1901	died here
P.S. (Pierre Samuel) Gendron	1828–1889	died here
Aurélie Caouette	1833–1905	died here
P. (Pierre) Bachand	1835–1878	died here
Louis Côté	1836–1915	died here
Étienne Leblanc	1839–1897	born here
Alexandrine Teyssèdre	1842–1921	died here
Ferdinand Gagnon	1849–1886	born here
Élisabeth Bergeron	1851–1936	died here
Dominique-Ceslas Gonthier	1853–1917	died here
Claver Casavant	1855–1933	died here
Omer-Edmond Dalaire	1856–1919	died here
Élie Bourbeau	1864–1934	died here
Marie-Victorin	1885–1944	died here

Identifiers

Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC091012 — assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap
Wikidata: Q141873
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Hyacinthe
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Hyacinthe

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.