Drummond & Arthabaska, Quebec

Drummond & Arthabaska 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 Drummond County (Q2991220) + Arthabaska County (Q2991091); 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

• Arthabaskaville, Village wd (pop 992)
• Chester E (pop 1,598)
• Chester W-O (pop 1,723)
• ChesterN (pop 926)
• Chénier (pop 1,995)
• Drummondville, Town—Ville wd (pop 900)
• Durham S (pop 1,737)
• Grantham wd (pop 683)
• Kingsey wd (pop 1,546)
• Kingsey E (pop 705)
• Kingsey Falls wd (pop 764)
• L'Avenir wd (pop 1,440)
• Princeville, Village wd (pop 699)
• St. Albert (pop 700)
• St. Bonaventure wd (pop 1,063)
• St. Christophe wd (pop 893)
• St. Eugène wd (pop 520)
• St. Germain wd (pop 2,661)
• St. Guillaume, VL wd (pop 2,751)
• St. Louis de Blandford wd (pop 597)
• St. Medard (pop 1,179)
• St. Norbert wd (pop 820)
• St. Samuel (pop 263)
• St. Valère de Bulstrode wd (pop 799)
• Stanfold wd (pop 1,980)
• Ste. Clothilde (pop 503)
• Tingwick wd (pop 1,346)
• Ulverton (pop 700)
• Victoriaville, T-V wd (pop 1,474)
• Warwick, Village wd (pop 929)
• Wendover, Simpson (pop 1,279)
• Wickham wd (pop 435)
• Wickham W-O (pop 760)

1891 census

• Arthabaskaville, Village wd (pop 1,034)
• ChesterN (pop 640)
• Chénier (pop 1,500)
• Drummondville, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,955)
• Durham wd (pop 543)
• Durham S (pop 1,494)
• Grantham wd (pop 911)
• Kingsey wd (pop 1,536)
• Kingsey Falls wd (pop 924)
• L'Avenir wd (pop 1,252)
• Princeville, Village wd (pop 837)
• St. Albert de Warwick wd (pop 737)
• St. Bonaventure wd (pop 1,209)
• St. Christophe d’Arthabaska (pop 1,079)
• St. Eugène de Grantham wd (pop 1,049)
• St. Germain de Grantham wd (pop 3,065)
• St. Guillaume, VL wd (pop 2,821)
• St. Louis de Blandford wd (pop 573)
• St. Norbert d Arthabaska (pop 836)
• St. Paul (pop 1,874)
• St. Rémi de Tingwick wd (pop 1,024)
• St. Valère de Bulstrode wd (pop 1,494)
• Stanfold wd (pop 2,084)
• Ste. Anne du Sault wd (pop 588)
• Ste. Clothilde d'Horton (pop 1,145)
• Ste. Elizabeth de Warwick wd (pop 528)
• Ste. Hélène (pop 1,681)
• Ste. Victoire (pop 963)
• Tingwick wd (pop 979)
• Victoriaville, T-V wd (pop 1,300)
• Warwick wd (pop 1,505)
• Warwick, Village wd (pop 853)
• Wendover & Simpson (pop 2,300)
• Wickham wd (pop 499)
• Wickham W-O (pop 1,111)

1901 census

• Arthabaskaville, Village wd (pop 995)
• Chester, East—Est (Ste. Hélène) (pop 1,300)
• Chester, North—Nord (pop 511)
• Chester, West—Ouest (St. Paul) (pop 2,074)
• Chénier (pop 1,189)
• Drummondville, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,450)
• Durham wd (pop 454)
• Durham, South—Sud (pop 1,308)
• Grantham wd (pop 1,017)
• Kingsey wd (pop 1,521)
• Kingsey Falls wd (pop 866)
• L'Avenir wd (pop 1,202)
• Notre-Dame de Lourdes wd (pop 215)
• Notre-Dame du Bon Conseil wd (pop 1,196)
• Princeville, Village wd (pop 742)
• St. Albert de Warwick wd (pop 666)
• St. Bonaventure wd (pop 1,265)
• St. Christophe wd (pop 861)
• St. Eugène de Grantham wd (pop 824)
• St. Germain de Grantham wd (pop 2,573)
• St. Guillaume d'Upton (pop 2,778)
• St. Louis de Blandford wd (pop 440)
• St. Nazaire (part) (pop 249)
• St. Norbert wd (pop 746)
• St. Rosaire wd (pop 879)
• St. Rémi de Tingwick wd (pop 962)
• St. Samuel d’Horton (pop 371)
• St. Valère de Bulstrode wd (pop 1,192)
• Stanfold wd (pop 1,562)
• Ste. Anne du Sault wd (pop 1,396)
• Ste. Clothilde d'Horton (pop 1,286)
• Ste. Elizabeth de Warwick wd (pop 429)
• Ste. Eulalie (part) (pop 361)
• Ste. Victoire (pop 1,073)
• Tingwick wd (pop 896)
• Victoriaville, T-V wd (pop 1,693)
• Warwick wd (pop 1,318)
• Warwick, VL wd (pop 790)
• Wendover & Simpson (pop 2,247)
• Wickham wd (pop 468)
• Wickham, West—Ouest (pop 1,119)

1911 census

• Arthabaskaville, Village wd (pop 1,458)
• Chester E. (Ste. Hélène) wd (pop 1,087)
• Chester N. (pop 645)
• Chester W.-O. (St. Paul) (pop 1,407)
• Chesterville, VL wd (pop 263)
• Chénier (pop 1,440)
• Daveluyville, VL wd (pop 294)
• Drummondville, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,725)
• Durham wd (pop 336)
• Durham S., VL (pop 1,294)
• Grantham wd (pop 880)
• Kingsey wd (pop 1,331)
• Kingsey Falls wd (pop 851)
• L'Avenir wd (pop 1,189)
• Maddington wd (pop 355)
• Notre-Dame du Bon Conseil wd (pop 1,140)
• Princeville, Village wd (pop 752)
• St. Albert de Warwick wd (pop 781)
• St. Christophe wd (pop 685)
• St. Cyrille, VL wd (pop 711)
• St. Eugène de Grantham wd (pop 1,120)
• St. Germain de Grantham wd (pop 2,181)
• St. Louis de Blandford wd (pop 499)
• St. Lucien wd (pop 438)
• St. Majorique de Grantham wd (pop 597)
• St. Norbert wd
• St. Rosaire wd (pop 933)
• St. Rémi de Tingwick wd (pop 943)
• St. Valère de Bulstrode wd (pop 1,143)
• Stanfold wd (pop 1,272)
• Ste. Anne du Sault wd (pop 762)
• Ste. Clothilde d'Horton (pop 1,398)
• Ste. Elizabeth de Warwick wd (pop 619)
• Ste. Victoire
• Tingwick wd (pop 532)
• Victoriaville, T-V wd (pop 3,028)
• Warwick wd (pop 1,293)
• Warwick, VL wd (pop 928)
• Wendover & Simpson (pop 1,498)
• Wickham wd (pop 530)
• Wickham W-O (pop 1,328)

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 Arthabaska (1861–1871), Drummond (1851–1871) in 1881.
• Split into Arthabaska (1921), Drummond (1921) in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Drummond_&_Arthabaska

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.