Brome, Quebec

Brome 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 Q2991146.

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

• Bolton (pop 2,526)
• Brome wd (pop 3,136)
• Farnham E (pop 1,925)
• Potton wd (pop 1,994)
• Sutton wd (pop 3,151)

1871 census

• Bolton (pop 2,878)
• Brome wd (pop 3,492)
• Farnham E (pop 2,066)
• Potton wd (pop 2,178)
• Sutton wd (pop 3,143)

1881 census

• Bolton E (pop 2,306)
• Bolton W-O (pop 929)
• Brome wd (pop 4,047)
• Farnham E (pop 2,499)
• Potton wd (pop 2,380)
• Sutton wd (pop 3,666)

1891 census

• Bolton E (pop 2,383)
• Bolton W-O (pop 891)
• Brome wd (pop 3,775)
• Farnham E (pop 2,045)
• Potton wd (pop 2,253)
• Sutton wd (pop 3,362)

1901 census

• Bolton, East—Est (pop 1,509)
• Bolton, West—Ouest (pop 770)
• Brome wd (pop 2,200)
• Brome, Village wd (pop 555)
• Eastman, VL wd (pop 630)
• Farnham E. wd (pop 1,788)
• Knowlton, VL wd (pop 760)
• Potton wd (pop 1,978)
• St. Alphonse (pop 94)
• Sutton wd (pop 2,422)
• Sutton, VL wd (pop 691)

1911 census

• Bolton E. wd (pop 1,456)
• Bolton W.-O. wd (pop 774)
• Brome wd (pop 2,600)
• Eastman, VL wd (pop 607)
• Farnham E. wd (pop 1,808)
• Knowlton, VL wd (pop 865)
• Potton wd (pop 1,941)
• Sutton wd (pop 2,179)
• Sutton, VL wd (pop 986)

1921 census

• Bolton E. wd (pop 1,232)
• Bolton W.-O. wd (pop 746)
• Brome wd (pop 2,347)
• Eastman, VL wd (pop 704)
• Farnham E. wd (pop 1,699)
• Farnham, VL wd (pop 198)
• Foster, VL wd (pop 355)
• Knowlton, VL wd (pop 841)
• Potton wd (pop 1,971)
• Sutton wd (pop 2,365)
• Sutton, VL wd (pop 923)

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Brome
• Wikidata: Q2991146
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brome_County,_Quebec
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Brome

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.