City of Montreal, Quebec

City of Montreal was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1851–1861 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. Historic 19th/early-20th-century census City of Montreal; boundaries differ from modern Montreal (Q340)

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

• Montréal, cité wd (pop 57,715)
• NO DATA

1861 census

• Centre Ward (pop 1,424)
• East Ward (pop 2,495)
• NO DATA
• Religious Institutions (pop 3,318)
• St. Ann’s Ward (pop 16,200)
• St. Antoine Ward (pop 15,190)
• St. James’ Ward (pop 13,104)
• St. Lawrence Ward (pop 12,898)
• St. Lewis’ Ward (pop 12,667)
• St. Mary’s Ward (pop 10,196)
• West Ward (pop 2,831)

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 Montreal Centre, Montreal East, Montreal West in 1871.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_City_of_Montreal

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.