Beauharnois, Quebec

Beauharnois was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1851–1921 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 Q2991124.

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

1851 census

• Beauharnois, Village wd (pop 874)
• Dundee wd (pop 984)
• Elgin, Township wd (pop 1,110)
• Godmanchester, Township wd (pop 2,100)
• Hemmingford, Township (pop 4,025)
• Hinchinbrooke, Township wd (pop 2,657)
• Huntingdon, Village wd (pop 679)
• Mission St. Régis (pop 1,069)
• Russell, Township (pop 2,038)
• St. Anicet wd (pop 2,566)
• St. Clément (pop 3,212)
• St. Jean Chrysostôme wd (pop 1,618)
• St. Louis de Gonzague wd (pop 3,845)
• St. Malachie (pop 3,268)
• St. Timothée wd (pop 4,231)
• St. Urbain wd (pop 2,038)
• Ste. Martine wd (pop 3,899)

1861 census

• Beauharnois wd (pop 1,641)
• St. Clément (pop 3,563)
• St. Louis de Gonzague (pop 4,184)
• St. Stanislas de Kotska (pop 1,175)
• St. Timothée wd (pop 2,959)
• Ste. Cécile wd (pop 2,220)

1871 census

• Beauharnois, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,423)
• St. Clément (pop 2,068)
• St. Etienne wd (pop 1,097)
• St. Louis (pop 3,172)
• St. Stanislas de Kostka wd (pop 1,553)
• St. Timothée wd (pop 2,479)
• Ste. Cécile wd (pop 2,965)

1881 census

• Beauharnois, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,499)
• Melocheville, St. Clément (pop 1,846)
• Salaberry de Valleyfield, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,906)
• St. Etienne wd (pop 1,037)
• St. Louis de Gonzague wd (pop 2,674)
• St. Stanislas de Kostka wd (pop 1,426)
• St. Timothée wd (pop 2,360)
• Ste. Cécile wd (pop 1,257)

1891 census

• Beauharnois, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,590)
• Salaberry de Valleyfield, Town—Ville wd (pop 5,515)
• St. Clément (pop 1,771)
• St. Etienne wd (pop 982)
• St. Louis de Gonzague wd (pop 2,187)
• St. Stanislas de Kostka wd (pop 1,198)
• St. Timothée wd (pop 2,104)
• Ste. Cécile wd (pop 1,315)

1901 census

• Beauharnois, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,976)
• Salaberry de Valleyfield t-v wd (pop 11,055)
• St. Clément (pop 1,549)
• St. Etienne wd (pop 873)
• St. Louis de Gonzague wd (pop 2,039)
• St. Stanislas de Kostka wd (pop 1,076)
• St. Timothée wd (pop 1,794)
• Ste. Cécile wd (pop 1,370)

1911 census

• Beauharnois, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,015)
• Salaberry de Valleyfield t-v wd (pop 9,449)
• St. Clément
• St. Etienne wd (pop 760)
• St. Louis de Gonzague wd
• St. Stanislas de Kostka wd (pop 990)
• St. Timothée wd
• Ste. Cécile wd (pop 1,574)

1921 census

• Beauharnois, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,250)
• Lac St. Louis, VL (pop 597)
• Maple Grove, T-V (pop 286)
• Nouveau Salaberry, VL (pop 606)
• St. Clément wd (pop 608)
• St. Etienne de Beauharnois wd (pop 724)
• St. Louis de Gonzague wd (pop 1,839)
• St. Stanislas de Kostka wd (pop 1,018)
• St. Timothée wd (pop 1,220)
• St. Timothée, VL wd (pop 450)
• Ste. Cécile wd (pop 618)
• Ste. Cécile, VL wd (pop 457)
• Valleyfield (Salaberry de), C wd (pop 9,215)

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 into Chateauguay, Huntingdon in 1861.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Beauharnois
• Wikidata: Q2991124
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Beauharnois

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.