Beauce, Quebec

Beauce was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1861–1921 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 Q2991122.

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

• Adstock wd (pop 58)
• Aylmer (pop 865)
• Dorset (pop 8)
• Forsyth (pop 677)
• Gayhurst (pop 70)
• Jersey (pop 164)
• Lambton, VL wd (pop 880)
• Linière, VL wd (pop 394)
• Marlow (pop 29)
• Price (pop 50)
• Shenley (pop 242)
• St. Elzéar wd (pop 2,305)
• St. François (pop 3,302)
• St. Frédéric wd (pop 1,051)
• St. George wd (pop 1,770)
• St. Joseph wd (pop 3,079)
• Ste. Marie de la Beauce wd (pop 3,395)
• Tring (pop 2,077)

1881 census

• Dorset (pop 264)
• Lambton, VL wd (pop 1,624)
• Sacré Cœur de Jésus wd (pop 1,241)
• Saints Anges wd (pop 981)
• Shenley (pop 1,557)
• Spaulding, Clinton (pop 57)
• St. Côme de Linière wd (pop 924)
• St. Elzéar wd (pop 1,500)
• St. Ephrem wd (pop 2,256)
• St. Evariste wd (pop 1,047)
• St. François (pop 4,181)
• St. Frédéric wd (pop 1,801)
• St. George wd (pop 2,746)
• St. Joseph wd (pop 2,838)
• St. Martin wd (pop 458)
• St. Pierre wd (pop 858)
• St. Sébastien wd (pop 1,488)
• St. Séverin wd (pop 924)
• St. Victor wd (pop 2,154)
• Ste. Marie wd (pop 2,782)
• Woburn, Ditchfield (pop 339)

1891 census

• Adstock wd (pop 682)
• Ditchfield (pop 848)
• Dorset (pop 346)
• Sacré-Coeur de Jésus (pop 1,586)
• Saints Anges wd (pop 993)
• Spaulding & Risborough (pop 188)
• St. Benoit Labre wd (pop 772)
• St. Côme de Kennebec wd (pop 1,279)
• St. Elzéar wd (pop 1,247)
• St. Ephrem de Tring wd (pop 2,386)
• St. François (pop 4,022)
• St. Frédéric wd (pop 1,814)
• St. George wd (pop 3,099)
• St. Honoré de Shenley wd (pop 1,578)
• St. Joseph wd (pop 2,128)
• St. Joseph, Village wd (pop 1,035)
• St. Martin wd (pop 894)
• St. Pierre de Broughton wd (pop 789)
• St. Samuel de Gayhurst (pop 889)
• St. Sébastien d'Aylmer (pop 859)
• St. Séverin wd (pop 790)
• St. Théophile wd (pop 318)
• St. Victor de Tring wd (pop 2,557)
• St. Vital de Lambton wd (pop 1,780)
• St. Évariste de Forsyth wd (pop 1,248)
• Ste. Marie wd (pop 2,897)
• Woburn & Clinton (pop 198)

1901 census

• Adstock wd (pop 988)
• Agnes, Village (pop 288)
• Ditchfield & Spaulding (pop 1,017)
• Sacré-Coeur de Jésus (pop 1,946)
• Saints Anges wd (pop 954)
• Shenley, Jersey, Dorset & Marlow (pop 544)
• St. Benoit Labre wd (pop 1,005)
• St. Côme de Kennebec wd (pop 1,339)
• St. Elzéar wd (pop 1,235)
• St. Ephrem de Tring wd (pop 2,444)
• St. Ephrem, VL wd (pop 380)
• St. François (pop 4,535)
• St. Frédéric wd (pop 1,019)
• St. Frédéric wd (pop 793)
• St. George wd (pop 3,287)
• St. Honoré wd (pop 1,844)
• St. Joseph wd (pop 2,180)
• St. Joseph, Village wd (pop 1,117)
• St. Ludger, Gayhurst & Risborough (pop 377)
• St. Martin wd (pop 959)
• St. Maxime de Scott wd (pop 756)
• St. Pierre de Broughton wd (pop 853)
• St. Samuel de Gayhurst (pop 1,366)
• St. Sébastien d'Aylmer (pop 1,204)
• St. Séverin wd (pop 706)
• St. Théophile (pop 526)
• St. Victor de Tring wd (pop 2,471)
• St. Vital de Lambton wd (pop 2,075)
• St. Évariste de Forsyth wd (pop 2,030)
• Ste. Marie wd (pop 2,539)
• Woburn & Louise (pop 352)

1911 census

• Agnès vl (pop 417)
• Beauceville, T-V wd (pop 1,677)
• Ditchfield (pop 859)
• L'Enfant Jésus wd (pop 1,031)
• Other parts - Autres parties
• Sacré Cœur de Jésus, VL wd (pop 996)
• Sacré-Coeur de Jésus (pop 1,720)
• Saints Anges wd (pop 965)
• St. Benoit Labre wd (pop 1,286)
• St. Côme de Kennebec wd (pop 1,747)
• St. Elzéar wd (pop 1,175)
• St. Ephrem de Tring wd (pop 2,335)
• St. Ephrem, VL wd (pop 509)
• St. François
• St. Frédéric wd (pop 1,710)
• St. Georges wd
• St. Georges E., VL (pop 1,410)
• St. Gédéon de Marlow wd (pop 984)
• St. Hilaire Dorset (pop 268)
• St. Honoré wd
• St. Hubert de Spalding wd (pop 542)
• St. Joseph wd
• St. Joseph, Village wd
• St. Ludger (pop 1,386)
• St. Martin wd
• St. Maxime de Scott wd (pop 1,101)
• St. Méthode d'Adstock (pop 1,437)
• St. Pierre de Broughton wd (pop 835)
• St. Samuel de Gayhurst (pop 1,351)
• St. Sébastien d'Aylmer (pop 1,042)
• St. Séverin wd
• St. Théophile
• St. Victor de Tring wd (pop 2,561)
• St. Vital de Lambton wd (pop 1,933)
• St. Évariste de Forsyth wd (pop 1,890)
• Ste. Marie wd (pop 2,555)
• Ste. Martine de Courcelle (pop 1,085)
• Ste. Rufine (pop 183)
• Woburn & Louise (pop 500)

1921 census

• Aubert Gallion (St. Georges) (pop 3,576)
• Beauceville, T-V wd (pop 1,448)
• L'Enfant Jésus wd (pop 1,294)
• Linière, VL wd (pop 610)
• Sacré Cœur de Jésus wd (pop 1,602)
• Sacré Cœur de Jésus, VL wd (pop 1,709)
• Saints Anges wd (pop 1,034)
• St. Benoit Labre wd (pop 1,494)
• St. Côme de Kénébec wd (pop 1,141)
• St. Elzéar wd (pop 1,128)
• St. Ephrem de Tring wd (pop 2,252)
• St. Ephrem, VL wd (pop 417)
• St. François (pop 3,264)
• St. Frédéric wd (pop 1,189)
• St. Georges E., VL (pop 1,058)
• St. Honoré de Shenley wd (pop 2,114)
• St. Joseph wd (pop 1,560)
• St. Joseph, Village wd (pop 1,445)
• St. Jules wd (pop 591)
• St. Martin wd (pop 1,813)
• St. Pierre de Broughton wd (pop 742)
• St. Séverin wd (pop 631)
• St. Théophile wd (pop 853)
• St. Victor de Tring wd (pop 2,178)
• St. Zacharie (Metgermette N. pt.) wd (pop 1,758)
• Ste. Aurélie (Metgermette N. pt.) wd (pop 575)
• Ste. Marie wd (pop 1,170)
• Ste. Marie, VL wd (pop 1,311)
• Tring Junction, VL (pop 351)

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 Dorchester in 1861.
• Split into Beauce East, Beauce West in 1871.
• Re-formed from Beauce East, Beauce West in 1881.
• Split into Frontenac in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Beauce
• Wikidata: Q2991122
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Beauce

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.