Victoria (1871–1911), New Brunswick

Victoria (1871–1911) was a Census Division in New Brunswick as recorded in the 1871–1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. This CD is grounded to Wikidata Q1520380.

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

1871 census

• Andover wd (pop 1,166)
• Gordon wd (pop 645)
• Grand Falls wd (pop 1,849)
• Madawaska wd (pop 1,816)
• Perth wd (pop 747)
• Saint Leonard’s wd (pop 1,997)
• St. Bazile wd (pop 1,669)
• St. Francis (pop 1,752)

1881 census

• Andover wd (pop 1,229)
• Drummond wd (pop 1,501)
• Gordon wd (pop 747)
• Grand Falls wd (pop 1,534)
• Lorne wd (pop 316)
• Madawaska wd (pop 966)
• Perth wd (pop 1,683)
• St. Bazile wd (pop 1,350)
• St. Francis (pop 1,600)
• St. Hilaire wd (pop 893)
• St. Jacques wd (pop 766)
• St. Leonard's wd (pop 2,190)
• Ste. Anne wd (pop 911)

1891 census

• Andover wd (pop 1,242)
• Drummond wd (pop 2,022)
• Gordon wd (pop 743)
• Grand Falls wd (pop 1,597)
• Lorne wd (pop 309)
• Madawaska wd (pop 1,683)
• Perth wd (pop 1,792)
• St. Bazile wd (pop 1,557)
• St. Francis (pop 2,040)
• St. Hilaire wd (pop 992)
• St. Jacques wd (pop 874)
• St. Leonard's wd (pop 2,393)
• Ste. Anne wd (pop 973)

1901 census

• Andover wd (pop 1,260)
• Drummond wd (pop 2,684)
• Gordon wd (pop 868)
• Grand Falls wd (pop 1,897)
• Lorne wd (pop 453)
• Madawaska wd (pop 1,882)
• Perth wd (pop 1,663)
• St. Bazile wd (pop 1,608)
• St. Francis (pop 2,577)
• St. Hilaire wd (pop 1,150)
• St. Jacques wd (pop 1,073)
• St. Léonard wd (pop 2,738)
• Ste. Anne wd (pop 1,283)

1911 census

• Andover wd (pop 1,331)
• Clair wd (pop 897)
• Drummond wd (pop 3,276)
• Edmundston, T-V wd (pop 1,821)
• Gordon wd (pop 1,670)
• Grand Falls wd (pop 1,400)
• Grand Falls, T-V wd (pop 1,280)
• Indian Reserve (pop 229)
• Lake Baker (pop 953)
• Ledges (pop 333)
• Lorne wd (pop 625)
• Madawaska wd (pop 988)
• Perth wd (pop 1,777)
• St. André wd (pop 1,553)
• St. Bazile wd (pop 2,287)
• St. Francis (pop 1,200)
• St. Hilaire wd (pop 1,566)
• St. Jacques wd (pop 1,372)
• St. Leonard wd (pop 2,026)
• Ste. Anne wd (pop 1,638)

Lineage

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

• Split off from New Brunswick in 1871.
• Split into Madawaska, Victoria (1921) in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NB_Victoria
• Wikidata: Q1520380
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_County,_New_Brunswick
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Victoria_(Nouveau-Brunswick)

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.