Hochelaga, Quebec

Hochelaga was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1861–1911 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 Q14875521.

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

1861 census

• Côteau St. Louis (pop 1,746)
• Longue Pointe wd (pop 1,055)
• Montréal, Parish wd (pop 6,385)
• Pointe aux Trembles wd (pop 1,362)
• Rivière des Prairies (pop 1,056)
• Sault au Récollet (pop 2,601)
• St. Jean Baptiste, Village wd (pop 2,269)

1871 census

• Côte de la Visitation (pop 460)
• Côte des Neiges (pop 842)
• Côteau St. Louis (pop 2,215)
• Hochelaga, Village (pop 1,061)
• Longue Pointe wd (pop 1,011)
• Montréal, Paroisse wd (pop 11,405)
• Pointe aux Trembles wd (pop 1,053)
• Rivière des Prairies (pop 779)
• Sault au Récollet (pop 2,406)
• St. Jean Baptiste, Village wd (pop 4,408)

1881 census

• Côte des Neiges (pop 988)
• Côte St. Antoine, Village (pop 884)
• Côte St. Louis, Town—Ville (pop 1,571)
• Côte St. Paul (pop 142)
• Côte St. Paul, Village (pop 949)
• Côte Visitation, Village (pop 462)
• Hochelaga, Village (pop 4,111)
• Longue Pointe wd (pop 1,114)
• Mile End, Village (pop 1,537)
• N.-Dame de Grâce, W-O (pop 1,524)
• Outremont, C (pop 387)
• Pointe aux Trembles wd (pop 1,063)
• Rivière des Prairies (pop 837)
• Sault au Récollet (pop 2,588)
• St. Gabriel, Village (pop 4,506)
• St. Henri, Town—Ville (pop 6,415)
• St. Jean Baptiste, Village wd (pop 5,874)
• Ste. Cunégonde, City—Cité (pop 4,849)
• Verdun, Village wd (pop 278)

1891 census

• Côte des Neiges (pop 391)
• Côte St. Antoine, Village (pop 3,076)
• Côte St. Louis, Town—Ville (pop 2,972)
• Côte St. Paul (pop 475)
• Côte St. Paul, Village (pop 842)
• Côte Visitation, Village (pop 816)
• Longue Pointe wd (pop 2,445)
• Maisonneuve, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,226)
• Mile End, Village (pop 3,537)
• Montreal, St. Gabriel, Ward—Quartier (pop 9,986)
• Montréal, Hochelaga, Ward—Quartier (pop 8,540)
• Montréal, St. Jean-Baptiste, Ward—Quartier (pop 15,423)
• N.-Dame des Neiges W-O (pop 933)
• Notre-Dame de Grâce (pop 2,305)
• Outremont, C (pop 408)
• Pointe aux Trembles wd (pop 876)
• Sault aux Récollets (pop 1,820)
• St. Henri, Town—Ville (pop 13,413)
• St. Joseph, Riv. des Prairies (pop 761)
• St. Léonard, Port Maurice (pop 1,166)
• Ste. Cunégonde, City—Cité (pop 9,291)
• Verdun, Village wd (pop 296)

1901 census

• Montreal, St. Gabriel, Ward—Quartier (pop 15,959)
• St. Henri, City—Cité (pop 21,192)
• Ste. Cunégonde, City—Cité (pop 10,912)
• Westmount, City—Cité wd (pop 8,856)

1911 census

• Montréal, ward-quartier St. Gabriel (pop 18,961)
• Montréal, ward-quartier St. Henri (pop 30,335)
• Montréal, ward-quartier Ste. Cunégonde (pop 11,174)
• Westmount c (pop 14,579)

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 off from Montréal (1851) in 1861.
• Merged into Laval, Maisonneuve in 1901.
• Split into Maisonneuve in 1901.
• Merged into Montréal & Jésus Islands—Iles in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Hochelaga
• Wikidata: Q14875521
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochelaga_County,_Quebec
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_d%27Hochelaga

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.