Bellechasse, Quebec
Bellechasse 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 Q2991127.
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.
| Year | Population | CSDs |
|---|---|---|
| 1851 | 17,982 | 12 |
| 1861 | 16,062 | 9 |
| 1881 | 18,068 | 11 |
| 1891 | 18,368 | 13 |
| 1901 | 18,706 | 13 |
| 1911 | 15,761 | 16 |
| 1921 | 21,813 | 18 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1851 census
- Armagh (pop 112)
- Beaumont wd (pop 2,153)
- Berthier wd (pop 1,109)
- Buckland (pop 137)
- St. Charles wd (pop 2,309)
- St. François & St. Pierre (pop 1,724)
- St. Gervais wd (pop 3,133)
- St. Lazare wd (pop 1,698)
- St. Michel wd (pop 2,654)
- St. Raphaël wd (pop 836)
- St. Valier (pop 1,915)
- Standon & Ware, Township (pop 202)
1861 census
- Armagh (pop 648)
- Beaumont wd (pop 1,229)
- Buckland E (pop 800)
- St. Charles wd (pop 2,176)
- St. Gervais wd (pop 2,717)
- St. Lazare wd (pop 2,083)
- St. Michel wd (pop 2,369)
- St. Raphaël wd (pop 2,631)
- St. Valier (pop 1,409)
1881 census
- Armagh (pop 1,602)
- Beaumont wd (pop 922)
- Buckland E (pop 1,403)
- Mailloux (pop 706)
- St. Charles wd (pop 1,989)
- St. Gervais wd (pop 2,215)
- St. Lazare (pop 2,353)
- St. Magloire (pop 763)
- St. Michel wd (pop 2,099)
- St. Raphaël wd (pop 2,644)
- St. Valier (pop 1,372)
1891 census
- Armagh (pop 1,549)
- Beaumont wd (pop 811)
- Buckland (pop 1,199)
- St. Charles wd (pop 2,076)
- St. Damien wd (pop 820)
- St. Gervais wd (pop 2,072)
- St. Lazare wd (pop 1,322)
- St. Magloire (pop 1,065)
- St. Michel wd (pop 1,838)
- St. Nérée wd (pop 1,181)
- St. Raphaël wd (pop 2,406)
- St. Valier (pop 1,322)
- Ste. Philomène de Mailloux (pop 707)
1901 census
- Notre-Dame de Buckland wd (pop 1,069)
- St. Cajetan d'Armagh wd (pop 1,741)
- St. Charles wd (pop 2,085)
- St. Damien wd (pop 1,174)
- St. Gervais wd (pop 1,936)
- St. Lazare wd (pop 1,287)
- St. Magloire (Rioux, Bellechasse, Daaquam) (pop 1,367)
- St. Michel wd (pop 1,722)
- St. Nérée wd (pop 1,183)
- St. Raphaël wd (pop 2,066)
- St. Valier (pop 1,392)
- St. Étienne de Beaumont wd (pop 716)
- Ste. Philomène de Mailloux (pop 968)
1911 census
- Notre-Dame de Buckland wd (pop 1,119)
- St. Cajetan d'Armagh wd (pop 2,194)
- St. Camille wd
- St. Charles Borromée wd
- St. Damien de Buckland wd (pop 1,446)
- St. Gabriel Archange (pop 593)
- St. Gervais wd (pop 2,017)
- St. Lazare wd
- St. Magloire (Rioux, Bellechasse, Daaquam) (pop 1,257)
- St. Michel wd
- St. Nérée wd (pop 1,192)
- St. Philémon wd (pop 1,216)
- St. Raphaël wd (pop 2,118)
- St. Valier (pop 1,278)
- St. Étienne de Beaumont wd (pop 746)
- Ste. Sabine wd (pop 585)
1921 census
- Beaumont (St. Etienne) wd (pop 736)
- Honfleur wd (pop 680)
- La Durantaye (St. Gabriel) wd (pop 590)
- Notre-Dame de Buckland wd (pop 987)
- Roux, Bellechasse & Daaquam (St. Magloire) wd (pop 1,528)
- St. Cajetan d'Armagh wd (pop 2,229)
- St. Camille wd (pop 1,779)
- St. Charles Borromée wd (pop 1,022)
- St. Charles, VL wd (pop 705)
- St. Damien de Buckland wd (pop 1,442)
- St. Gervais wd (pop 1,736)
- St. Lazare wd (pop 1,153)
- St. Michel wd (pop 1,296)
- St. Nérée wd (pop 998)
- St. Philémon wd (pop 1,238)
- St. Raphael wd (pop 1,816)
- St. Valier (pop 1,217)
- Ste. Sabine wd (pop 661)
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 Bellechasse North, Bellechasse South in 1871.
- Re-formed from Bellechasse North, Bellechasse South in 1881.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_QC_Bellechasse - Wikidata: Q2991127
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellechasse_County
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Bellechasse
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.