Labrador, Quebec

Labrador was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1871 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. Quebec-claimed Labrador CD (pre-1927 Privy Council ruling); not equivalent to modern NL Labrador

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

1871 census

• Anticosti (pop 102)
• Bonne Espérance wd (pop 266)
• Manicouagan (pop 86)
• Moisie (pop 336)
• Mécatina (pop 280)
• Natasquan (pop 358)
• Pointe aux Esquimaux (pop 862)
• Pointe des Monts (pop 106)
• Sauvages Betsiamites (pop 552)
• Sauvages de Mingan (pop 560)
• Sauvages des Sept Isles (pop 191)

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 Saguenay (1851–1871) in 1871.
• Merged into Chicoutimi & Saguenay in 1881.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Labrador

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.