Drummond (1851–1871), Quebec

Drummond (1851–1871) was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1851–1871 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 Q2991220.

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

• Acton, Township (pop 425)
• Arthabaska wd (pop 1,470)
• Aston, Township (pop 561)
• Bulstrode, Township (pop 307)
• Chester, Township (pop 931)
• Durham, Township wd (pop 2,208)
• Grantham, Township wd (pop 1,401)
• Horton, Township (pop 89)
• Kingsey, Township wd (pop 2,262)
• Simpson, Township (pop 87)
• South Ham, Township (pop 142)
• Stanfold, Township (pop 1,418)
• Tingwick, Township wd (pop 981)
• Upton, Township wd (pop 2,184)
• Warwick, Township wd (pop 643)
• Wendover, Township (pop 216)
• Wickham, Township (pop 574)
• Wotton wd (pop 663)

1861 census

• Durham wd (pop 3,152)
• Grantham wd (pop 2,395)
• Kingsey wd (pop 2,403)
• Simpson (pop 271)
• Upton wd (pop 2,942)
• Wendover (pop 337)
• Wickham wd (pop 856)

1871 census

• Durham wd (pop 729)
• Durham S (pop 1,361)
• Grantham wd (pop 829)
• Kingsey wd (pop 1,907)
• Kingsey Falls, W-O (pop 360)
• L’Avenir wd (pop 1,716)
• St. Bonaventure wd (pop 1,144)
• St. Germain wd (pop 2,000)
• St. Guillaume, VL wd (pop 2,532)
• Wendover, Simpson (pop 767)
• Wickham wd (pop 515)
• Wickham W-O (pop 421)

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 Arthabaska (1861–1871) in 1861.
• Merged into Drummond & Arthabaska in 1881.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Drummond
• Wikidata: Q2991220
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Drummond

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.