Gaspé, Quebec
Gaspé was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1851–1921 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 Q2991234.
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.
| Year | Population | CSDs |
|---|---|---|
| 1851 | 10,904 | 11 |
| 1861 | 14,077 | 17 |
| 1881 | 25,001 | 23 |
| 1891 | 26,875 | 23 |
| 1901 | 30,683 | 27 |
| 1911 | 31,026 | 28 |
| 1921 | 40,375 | 32 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1851 census
- Cap Chat wd (pop 966)
- Cap Rosier (pop 785)
- Douglass, Township (pop 819)
- Fox, Township (pop 584)
- Gaspé Bay N & Sydenham, Township (pop 288)
- Grand River (pop 689)
- Magdalen Islands wd (pop 2,202)
- Malbay, Township (pop 780)
- Newport No. 1 & Newport No. 2, Township (pop 1,025)
- Percé, Township wd (pop 2,160)
- York & Gaspé Bay S, Township (pop 606)
1861 census
- Cap Chat wd (pop 450)
- Cap Rosier (pop 1,060)
- Douglas (pop 988)
- Fox (pop 588)
- Gaspé Bay, North (pop 316)
- Gaspé Bay, South (pop 520)
- Grand River (pop 879)
- Grande Vallée des Monts, St. Anse de l'Etang, and Sydenham North (pop 304)
- Magdalen Islands wd (pop 2,651)
- Malbaie (pop 1,077)
- Mont Louis (pop 200)
- Newport (pop 415)
- Pabos (pop 754)
- Percé wd (pop 2,720)
- Ste. Anne wd (pop 869)
- Sydenham, South (pop 81)
- York wd (pop 205)
1881 census
- Cap Chat wd (pop 1,427)
- Chlorydormes (pop 488)
- Douglas (pop 1,260)
- Etang du Nord wd (pop 1,530)
- Gaspé Bay N, Sydenham S (pop 609)
- Gaspé Bay S (pop 587)
- Gaspé, Village wd (pop 174)
- Grande Rivière wd (pop 2,150)
- Grosse Ile (pop 377)
- Hâvre Amherst (pop 1,410)
- Hâvre aux Maisons wd (pop 999)
- La Grande Vallée wd (pop 713)
- L’Anse du Cap (pop 1,490)
- Mont Louis (pop 789)
- Newport wd (pop 1,154)
- Percé wd (pop 1,805)
- Rivière au Renard (pop 1,208)
- St. Alban, Cap des Rosiers (pop 850)
- St. Joseph, Anse au Griffon (pop 907)
- St. Pierre de la Malbaie (pop 1,545)
- Ste. Adelaïde de Pabos (pop 1,200)
- Ste. Anne des Monts wd (pop 1,844)
- York wd (pop 485)
1891 census
- Basin (pop 839)
- Cap Chat wd (pop 1,237)
- Cap Rosier (pop 785)
- Chlorydormes (pop 647)
- Douglas (pop 1,468)
- Etang du Nord wd (pop 1,952)
- Fox & Sydenham North—Nord (pop 1,422)
- Gaspé Bay N & Sydenham S (pop 1,153)
- Gaspé, Village wd (pop 307)
- Grande Rivière wd (pop 2,348)
- Grande Vallée des Monts wd (pop 575)
- Grosse Ile, Isle Bryon & Bird Rocks (pop 398)
- Hâvre Aubert, par. wd (pop 601)
- Hâvre aux Maisons wd (pop 1,152)
- L’Anse au Griffon (pop 1,030)
- L’Anse du Cap (pop 1,497)
- Malbaie (pop 1,827)
- Mont Louis (pop 896)
- Newport wd (pop 1,481)
- Pabos (pop 1,348)
- Percé wd (pop 1,800)
- Ste. Anne des Monts wd (pop 1,762)
- York wd (pop 350)
1901 census
- Alright Islands (pop 387)
- Basin (pop 1,034)
- Cap Chat wd (pop 1,416)
- Cap Rosier (pop 1,350)
- Chlorydormes (pop 785)
- Douglas (Sandy Beach & Seal Cove) (pop 422)
- Douglastown (pop 1,098)
- Etang du Nord wd (pop 2,376)
- Fox & Sydenham North—Nord (pop 1,729)
- Gaspé Bay, North & Sydenham South (pop 855)
- Gaspé Bay, South—Sud (pop 570)
- Gaspé, Village wd (pop 454)
- Grande Entrée (pop 363)
- Grande Rivière wd (pop 1,564)
- Grande Vallée des Monts wd (pop 314)
- Hâvre Aubert, par. wd (pop 709)
- Hâvre aux Maisons wd (pop 896)
- L’Anse au Griffon (pop 792)
- L’Anse du Cap (pop 2,294)
- Malbaie (pop 1,993)
- Mont Louis & Riv. Magdeleine (pop 1,205)
- Newport wd (pop 1,357)
- Pabos (pop 1,905)
- Percé wd (pop 1,868)
- Ste. Anne des Monts wd (pop 2,269)
- Wolfe, Bryon Islands, Grosse Ile & Bird Rocks (pop 261)
- York wd (pop 417)
1911 census
- Anse au Griffon wd (pop 886)
- Cap Chat wd (pop 1,469)
- Cap Rosier (pop 1,562)
- Coffin Island (pop 364)
- Douglas W.-O. (pop 468)
- Douglastown (pop 1,163)
- Etang du Nord wd (pop 2,823)
- Fox River & Sydenham N. (pop 2,038)
- Gaspé Bay N. & Sydenham S. (pop 1,072)
- Gaspé Bay S. (pop 703)
- Gaspé, Village wd (pop 606)
- Grand Étang (pop 999)
- Grande Rivière wd (pop 1,711)
- Grande Vallée des Monts wd (pop 570)
- Grosse Ile (pop 331)
- Hâvre Aubert, par. wd (pop 1,801)
- Hâvre aux Maisons wd (pop 1,344)
- L’Anse du Cap (pop 2,510)
- Malbaie
- Mont Louis & Rivière Magdeleine (pop 684)
- Newport wd
- NO DATA
- Other parts - Autres parties
- Pabos (pop 2,223)
- Percé wd (pop 1,768)
- Petite Magdeleine (pop 561)
- Ste. Anne des Monts wd (pop 2,847)
- York wd (pop 523)
1921 census
- Anse au Griffon wd (pop 930)
- Bassin par. & Hâvre Aubert Ils. (pop 1,099)
- Cap Chat wd (pop 1,897)
- Cap des Rosiers (Grande Grève) wd (pop 252)
- Cap des Rosiers (St. Alban du) wd (pop 988)
- Chandler, VL wd (pop 1,756)
- Cloridorme wd (pop 953)
- Douglas E. (pop 1,203)
- Douglas W.-O. (pop 517)
- Etang du Nord wd (pop 1,357)
- Fox River & Sydenham N. (pop 2,191)
- Gaspé Bay N. & Sydenham S. (pop 1,760)
- Gaspé Bay S. (pop 659)
- Gaspé, Village wd (pop 764)
- Grande Rivière wd (pop 2,059)
- Grande Vallée des Monts wd (pop 750)
- Grindstone & Barachois (pop 1,672)
- Grosse Ile, Wolfe Island, Grande Entrée, Byron, etc. (pop 767)
- Hâvre Aubert, par. wd (pop 857)
- Hâvre aux Maisons wd (pop 1,375)
- L’Anse du Cap (pop 2,503)
- Malbaie No. 1 (St. Pierre) (pop 1,241)
- Malbaie No. 2 (St. Pierre) (pop 1,270)
- Mont Louis (St. Maxime) wd (pop 1,218)
- Newport wd (pop 1,711)
- NO DATA
- Pabos (Ste. Adélaïde de) (pop 2,251)
- Percé wd (pop 1,472)
- St. Joachim (pop 1,465)
- Ste. Anne des Monts wd (pop 2,172)
- Ste. Madeleine de la Rivière Madeleine wd (pop 605)
- York wd (pop 661)
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 Gaspé Centre, Gaspé South, Gaspé West, Isles de la Magdeleine in 1871.
- Re-formed from Gaspé Centre, Gaspé South, Gaspé West, Isles de la Magdeleine in 1881.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_QC_Gaspé - Wikidata: Q2991234
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Gasp%C3%A9
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.