Chambly (1851–1891), Quebec

Chambly (1851–1891) was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1851–1891 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 Q2991170.

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

• Boucherville wd (pop 2,764)
• Chambly, Parish (pop 3,673)
• Chambly, Village (pop 698)
• College of Chambly (pop 186)
• L'Acadie (part) (pop 1,764)
• Laprairie (part) (pop 380)
• Longueuil (part) (pop 2,641)
• Longueuil, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,496)
• St. Bruno wd (pop 1,164)
• St. John, Parish (pop 1,493)
• St. John, Village (pop 3,215)
• St. Luc (part) (pop 843)
• St. Valentin (part) (pop 187)
• Ste. Julie (part) (pop 72)

1861 census

• Boucherville wd (pop 1,813)
• Boucherville, Village wd (pop 882)
• Chambly, Parish wd (pop 1,787)
• Chambly, Village wd (pop 1,379)
• Longueuil, Parish wd (pop 1,049)
• Longueuil, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,816)
• St. Bruno wd (pop 1,719)
• St. Hubert wd (pop 1,157)
• St. Lambert wd (pop 530)

1871 census

• Bassin de Chambly, Village (pop 778)
• Boucherville wd (pop 1,364)
• Boucherville, Village wd (pop 767)
• Chambly (pop 1,279)
• Chambly, Village (pop 600)
• Longueuil wd (pop 881)
• Longueuil, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,083)
• St. Bruno wd (pop 1,406)
• St. Hubert wd (pop 1,013)
• St. Lambert wd (pop 327)

1881 census

• Boucherville wd (pop 785)
• Boucherville, Village wd (pop 1,165)
• Chambly wd (pop 988)
• Chambly, Village wd (pop 1,506)
• Longueuil wd (pop 997)
• Longueuil, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,355)
• St. Bazile (pop 700)
• St. Bruno wd (pop 894)
• St. Hubert wd (pop 1,136)
• St. Lambert wd (pop 332)

1891 census

• Boucherville wd (pop 995)
• Boucherville, Village wd (pop 821)
• Chambly wd (pop 958)
• Chambly Basin, Village (pop 879)
• Chambly Canton, Village (pop 846)
• Longueuil wd (pop 1,194)
• Longueuil, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,757)
• St. Bazile le Grand wd (pop 683)
• St. Bruno wd (pop 721)
• St. Hubert wd (pop 944)
• St. Lambert wd (pop 906)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

• Merged into Chambly & Verchères in 1901.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Chambly
• Wikidata: Q2991170
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambly_County,_Quebec
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Chambly

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.