HGIS Canada › Quebec › Westbury
Province: Quebec  |  Years recorded: 1851–1921  |  Wikidata: Q63244704

Westbury, Quebec (1851–1921)

Westbury was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in 8 censuses between 1851 and 1921. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q63244704, 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 115 in 1851 to 662 in 1921).

Historical lineage

Descendant places

Population trajectory across census years

Census yearPopulationPage
1851115View 1851 detail →
1861297View 1861 detail →
1871363View 1871 detail →
1881510View 1881 detail →
1891973View 1891 detail →
19011,976View 1901 detail →
19112,708View 1911 detail →
1921662View 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 43 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.

NameLifespanConnection
Amable-Daniel Duchaîne1774–1853born here
William Johnston1782–1870born here
Jean-Baptiste Proulx1793–1856born here
Aaron Ezekiel Hart1803–1857born here
Jean-Charles Prince1804–1860born here
Timothy Hibbard Dunn1816–1898born here
Léon Provancher1820–1892born here
Louis-Léon Lesieur-Désaulniers1823–1896born here
Mary Electa Adams1823–1898born here
Télesphore Fournier1823–1896born here
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau1824–1901born here
J. R. (John Rudolphus) Booth1827–1925born here
Édouard Caron1830–1900born here
Ernest Gagnon1834–1915born here
Edwige Buisson1837–1902born here
Adolphe Rho1839–1905born here
Benjamin Sulte1841–1923born here
Napoléon Legendre1841–1907born here
Robert Atkinson Davis1841–1903born here
Frederick Smith Stimson1842–1912born here
Gustave Gagnon1842–1930born here
Clementina Trenholme1843–1918born here
Pierre-Léon Ayotte1845–1907born here
Urbain Lafontaine1845–1913born here
Augustin Desrosiers1847–1927born here
François-Xavier Cloutier1848–1934born here
Elliott Torrance Galt1850–1928born here
Elson Irving Rexford1851–1936born here
Ernest Marceau1852–1919born here
Francis McCrea1852–1926born here
Henry Thomas Duffy1852–1903born here
Eugène Lefebvre1854–1914born here
Jacques Bureau1860–1933born here
Wyatt Galt Johnston1862–1902born here
Gonzalve Desaulniers1863–1934born here
Frederick Oscar Warren Loomis1870–1937born here
Constant Doyon1875–1927born here
Oscar Dufresne1875–1936born here
Robert Pollock Glasgow1875–1922born here
Marie-Victorin1885–1944born here
Robert James Cromie1887–1936born here
Maurice le Noblet Duplessis1890–1959born here
Northrop Frye1912–1991born here

Identifiers

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.