Arthabaska (1861–1871), Quebec

Arthabaska (1861–1871) was an Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1861–1871 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 Q2991091.

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

1861 census

• Arthabaska wd (pop 2,319)
• Arthabaskaville, Village wd (pop 608)
• Aston (pop 339)
• Blandford (pop 310)
• Bulstrode (pop 510)
• Chester, East (pop 1,524)
• Chester, West (pop 1,876)
• Horton (pop 191)
• Maddington wd (pop 39)
• Stanfold wd (pop 2,150)
• Tingwick wd (pop 2,227)
• Warwick wd (pop 1,380)

1871 census

• Arthabaskaville, Village wd (pop 730)
• Bulstrode (pop 766)
• Chester E (pop 1,544)
• Chester W-O (pop 1,368)
• ChesterN (pop 780)
• Chénier (pop 1,866)
• Kingsey Falls, E (pop 370)
• Princeville, Village wd (pop 511)
• St. Albert (pop 371)
• St. Christophe wd (pop 1,287)
• St. Louis (pop 533)
• St. Medard (pop 1,165)
• St. Norbert wd (pop 852)
• Stanfold wd (pop 1,953)
• Ste. Clothilde (pop 371)
• Tingwick wd (pop 1,177)
• Victoriaville wd (pop 1,425)
• Warwick, Village wd (pop 542)

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 Drummond (1851–1871) in 1861.
• Merged into Drummond & Arthabaska in 1881.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Arthabaska
• Wikidata: Q2991091
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthabaska_County,_Quebec
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_d%27Arthabaska

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.