Huntingdon, Quebec

Huntingdon 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 Q2991267.

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

• Chateauguay wd (pop 2,360)
• Laprairie wd (pop 2,152)
• Laprairie, Village wd (pop 1,757)
• Longueuil (part) (pop 213)
• L’Acadie (part) (pop 850)
• Sault St. Louis (pop 1,666)
• Sherrington (pop 1,645)
• St. Bernard, Lacolle (pop 3,483)
• St. Constant wd (pop 2,697)
• St. Cyprien wd (pop 4,495)
• St. Edouard wd (pop 3,644)
• St. Isidore wd (pop 2,133)
• St. Jacques wd (pop 1,951)
• St. Luc (part) (pop 339)
• St. Philippe wd (pop 2,480)
• St. Rémi wd (pop 3,757)
• St. Valentin wd (pop 3,052)
• Ste. Philomène wd (pop 1,971)

1861 census

• Elgin wd (pop 1,069)
• Franklin wd (pop 1,551)
• Hemmingford wd (pop 4,005)
• Hinchinbrooke wd (pop 2,725)
• Huntingdon, Village, and Godmanchester (pop 2,891)
• St. Anicet wd (pop 3,170)
• St. Régis and Dundee (pop 2,080)

1881 census

• Dundee wd (pop 1,499)
• Elgin wd (pop 1,048)
• Franklin wd (pop 1,221)
• Godmanchester wd (pop 1,893)
• Havelock wd (pop 1,209)
• Hemmingford wd (pop 2,315)
• Hinchinbrooke wd (pop 2,334)
• Huntingdon, Village wd (pop 856)
• St. Anicet wd (pop 3,120)

1891 census

• Dundee wd (pop 1,535)
• Elgin wd (pop 915)
• Franklin wd (pop 1,133)
• Godmanchester wd (pop 1,673)
• Havelock wd (pop 1,035)
• Hemmingford wd (pop 1,733)
• Hemmingford, Village wd (pop 300)
• Hinchinbrooke wd (pop 2,209)
• Huntingdon, Village wd (pop 1,177)
• St. Anicet wd (pop 2,093)
• Ste. Barbe wd (pop 582)

1901 census

• Dundee wd (pop 1,610)
• Elgin wd (pop 795)
• Franklin wd (pop 1,152)
• Godmanchester wd (pop 1,735)
• Havelock wd (pop 925)
• Hemmingford wd (pop 1,658)
• Hemmingford, Village wd (pop 338)
• Hinchinbrooke wd (pop 2,018)
• Huntingdon, Village wd (pop 1,122)
• St. Anicet wd (pop 2,093)
• Ste. Barbe wd (pop 533)

1911 census

• Dundee wd (pop 1,891)
• Elgin wd (pop 714)
• Franklin wd (pop 1,009)
• Godmanchester wd (pop 1,623)
• Havelock wd (pop 825)
• Hemmingford wd (pop 1,429)
• Hemmingford, Village wd (pop 313)
• Hinchinbrooke wd (pop 1,740)
• Huntingdon, Village wd (pop 1,265)
• St. Anicet wd (pop 1,904)
• Ste. Barbe wd (pop 527)

1921 census

• Dundee wd (pop 723)
• Elgin wd (pop 693)
• Franklin wd (pop 949)
• Godmanchester wd (pop 1,603)
• Havelock wd (pop 701)
• Hemmingford wd (pop 1,589)
• Hemmingford, Village wd (pop 345)
• Hinchinbrooke wd (pop 1,647)
• Huntingdon, Village wd (pop 1,401)
• Réserves Indiennes (pop 1,190)
• St. Anicet wd (pop 1,737)
• Ste. Barbe wd (pop 596)

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 Beauharnois in 1861.
• Split into Laprairie (1861–1891), Napierville (1861–1891), St. Jean (1861–1891) in 1861.
• Split into Huntingdon East, Huntingdon West in 1871.
• Re-formed from Huntingdon East, Huntingdon West in 1881.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Huntingdon
• Wikidata: Q2991267
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntingdon_County,_Quebec
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Huntingdon_(Qu%C3%A9bec)

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.