Chicoutimi & Saguenay, Quebec

Chicoutimi & Saguenay was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1881–1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. Composite CD spanning Chicoutimi County (Q2991181) + Saguenay County; no single Wikidata entity

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

1881 census

• Bagotville, Village wd (pop 508)
• Bonne Espérance wd (pop 341)
• Chicoutimi, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,935)
• Escoumains wd (pop 520)
• Hébertville wd (pop 2,501)
• Isle of Anticosti (pop 676)
• Kénogami, T-V wd (pop 262)
• Laterrière wd (pop 1,320)
• Manicouagan (pop 120)
• Mille Vaches (pop 1,115)
• Moisie (pop 241)
• Mécatina (pop 410)
• Natashquan (pop 480)
• Notre Dame du Lac (pop 1,186)
• Pointe aux Esquimaux (pop 1,775)
• Pointe des Monts (pop 243)
• Péribonka wd (pop 322)
• St. Alexis (pop 1,749)
• St. Alphonse (pop 1,071)
• St. Dominique (pop 1,511)
• St. François-Xavier (pop 2,687)
• St. Fulgence, par. wd (pop 845)
• St. Félicien wd (pop 530)
• St. Gédéon, VL wd (pop 654)
• St. Jean (pop 653)
• St. Joseph (pop 710)
• St. Jérôme (pop 1,803)
• St. Louis (pop 1,067)
• St. Prime wd (pop 956)
• Ste. Anne wd (pop 1,260)
• Tadoussac, VL wd (pop 1,542)
• Unorganized Territory (pop 1,416)

1891 census

• Bonne Espérance wd (pop 351)
• Chicoutimi wd (pop 2,071)
• Chicoutimi, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,277)
• Escoumains wd (pop 667)
• Harvey, St. Germain, Durocher & Labrosse (pop 189)
• Hébertville, Village wd (pop 509)
• Indian Reserve (pop 434)
• Isle of Anticosti (pop 253)
• L’Anse St. Jean (pop 761)
• Manicouagan (pop 128)
• Mille Vaches (pop 1,105)
• Moisie (pop 269)
• Mécatina (pop 341)
• N.-D. du Lac St. Jean & Roberval (pop 1,040)
• Natashkwan (pop 365)
• Normandin, Albanel & Parent (pop 587)
• Notre-Dame de Laterrière wd (pop 1,006)
• Notre-Dame d’Hébertville wd (pop 1,887)
• Pointe aux Esquimaux (pop 1,751)
• Pointe des Monts (pop 498)
• Racine, Dalmas, Taillon & Delisle (pop 535)
• Roberval, Village wd (pop 783)
• St. Alexis (pop 1,689)
• St. Alphonse & Bagotville, Village (pop 1,470)
• St. Bruno wd (pop 564)
• St. Charles & St. Ambroise (pop 423)
• St. Cyriac (pop 435)
• St. Dominique (pop 1,477)
• St. Fulgence, par. wd (pop 777)
• St. Félicien, Ashuapmouchouan N, Desmeules & Dufferin (pop 988)
• St. Gédéon, VL wd (pop 966)
• St. Hilaire, Dequen, Dablon, &c. (pop 1,124)
• St. Joseph d'Alma, VL (pop 1,031)
• St. Jérôme (pop 1,835)
• St. Louis de Metabetchouan (pop 1,155)
• St. Prime & Ashuapmouchouan S (pop 1,050)
• Ste. Anne wd (pop 1,663)
• Tadoussac, VL wd (pop 2,440)
• Unorganized Territory (pop 1,387)

1901 census

• Albanel pr (pop 335)
• Albert (Sacré-Coeur) (pop 581)
• Bagotville pr (pop 652)
• Bagotville vl wd (pop 507)
• Bergeronnes pr (pop 654)
• Bersimis (pop 501)
• Bonne Espérance wd (pop 903)
• Bourget & St. Charles (pop 634)
• Chicoutimi wd (pop 1,970)
• Chicoutimi, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,826)
• Delisle (Sacré-Coeur) (pop 880)
• Dufferin (pop 202)
• Escoumains wd (pop 490)
• Grande Baie, St. Alexis, Otis, Hébert, Ferland & Simon (pop 1,628)
• Hébertville wd (pop 2,023)
• Hébertville, Village wd (pop 537)
• Iberville (pop 616)
• Ile d'Anticosti wd (pop 442)
• Ind. Reserve Ouiatchouan (pop 628)
• Kénogami & St. Cyriac (pop 642)
• Manicouagan (pop 311)
• Mekattina (pop 213)
• Moisie (pop 1,369)
• N.-D. de Laterrière & Township (pop 895)
• Natashkwan (pop 804)
• Normandin & Girard (pop 930)
• Pointe aux Esquimaux (pop 1,818)
• Pointe des Monts (pop 529)
• Portneuf & Laval (pop 247)
• Roberval & Charlevoix (pop 1,345)
• Roberval, Village wd (pop 1,248)
• Saguenay & Dumas (St. Etienne) (pop 800)
• Simard (pop 1,034)
• St. Bruno wd (pop 1,025)
• St. Dominique (pop 1,630)
• St. François de Sales wd (pop 646)
• St. Fulgence, St. Germain, Champigny & Labrosse (pop 981)
• St. Félicien, Ashuapmuchuan & Demeules (pop 1,386)
• St. Gédéon, VL wd (pop 1,155)
• St. Jean (pop 726)
• St. Joseph d'Alma pr wd (pop 1,305)
• St. Jérôme (pop 1,579)
• St. Jérôme, Village wd (pop 498)
• St. Louis de Métabetchouan & St. Hilaire (pop 1,640)
• St. Michel de Mistassini, Dolbeau, Racine & Dalmas (pop 916)
• St. Méthode wd (pop 437)
• St. Prime pr (pop 1,230)
• St. Thomas d’Aquin (pop 536)
• Ste. Anne, VL wd (pop 516)
• Taché (pop 186)
• Tadoussac pr wd (pop 259)
• Tadoussac, VL wd (pop 511)
• Taillon (pop 303)
• Tremblay & Falardeau (pop 584)
• Unorg. territory—Ter. non-organisé (pop 48)

1911 census

• Albanel pr (pop 778)
• Anse St. Jean p. & Dumas tp. (pop 1,079)
• Bagotville pr (pop 680)
• Bagotville vl wd (pop 1,011)
• Bergeronnes pr (pop 797)
• Bersimis (pop 721)
• Chicoutimi wd (pop 2,321)
• Chicoutimi, Town—Ville wd (pop 5,880)
• Escoumains wd (pop 949)
• Girard, UNO (pop 132)
• Grande Baie p. & Boileau tp. & Ferland tp. (pop 598)
• Grande Baie vl wd (pop 1,355)
• Harrington wd
• Hébertville pr wd (pop 1,688)
• Hébertville Station vl (pop 737)
• Hébertville vl wd (pop 655)
• Ile d'Anticosti wd (pop 461)
• Indian Reserve, I R (pop 627)
• Jonquières vl (pop 2,354)
• Kénogami, UNO (pop 143)
• La Doré pr (pop 607)
• Laterrière p. & Simon tp. (pop 936)
• Magpie, Moisie-Mingan (pop 1,600)
• Mille Vaches pr (pop 627)
• Moisie vl (pop 351)
• Natashquan (pop 400)
• NO DATA
• Normandin pr (pop 1,528)
• Notre-Dame de Blanc Sablon (pop 580)
• Piastre Baie (pop 253)
• Pointe aux Esquimaux (pop 838)
• Pointe des Monts (pop 1,205)
• Roberval pr (pop 1,170)
• Roberval t-v wd (pop 1,737)
• Sacré-Coeur de Marie pr (pop 1,445)
• Sacré-Cœur p. & Labrosse tp. (pop 810)
• Sept Iles vl wd (pop 612)
• St. Ambroise pr (pop 606)
• St. Amédée de Péribonka pr (pop 401)
• St. André pr (pop 484)
• St. Bruno pr (pop 932)
• St. Bruno vl wd
• St. Charles pr (pop 481)
• St. Cyriac pr (pop 577)
• St. Dominique de Jonquières pr (pop 1,078)
• St. Firmin & Saguenay tp.-ct. (pop 285)
• St. François de Sales wd
• St. Fulgence, par. wd (pop 941)
• St. Félicien pr (pop 1,346)
• St. Félicien vl wd (pop 581)
• St. Félix d'Otis (Monmigny) wd (pop 355)
• St. Gédéon, VL wd (pop 1,309)
• St. Henri de Taillon pr (pop 626)
• St. Honoré, par. wd (pop 434)
• St. Joseph d'Alma pr wd (pop 1,512)
• St. Jérôme pr (pop 1,467)
• St. Jérôme vl wd (pop 719)
• St. Louis de Métabetchouan pr (pop 1,608)
• St. Louis Nazaire pr (pop 475)
• St. Michel de Mistassini pr (pop 763)
• St. Méthode wd (pop 663)
• St. Prime pr (pop 1,515)
• St. Thomas d'Aquin pr (pop 775)
• St. Édouard de Péribonka pr (pop 462)
• Ste. Anne de Portneuf wd (pop 614)
• Ste. Anne pr (pop 1,414)
• Ste. Anne, VL wd (pop 657)
• Ste. Edwidge pr (pop 331)
• Tadoussac pr wd (pop 183)
• Tadoussac, VL wd (pop 611)

Lineage

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

• Re-formed from Chicoutimi (1861–1871), Labrador, Saguenay (1851–1871) in 1881.
• Merged into Saguenay (1921) in 1921.
• Split into Chicoutimi (1921), Lac St. Jean in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Chicoutimi_&_Saguenay

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.