Laval, Quebec

Laval 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. Historic Laval County (Île Jésus, 1853-1965), no Wikidata entity for the historic county; modern Laval (Q141810) is post-amalgamation city

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

• St. François (pop 1,027)
• St. Martin (pop 4,093)
• St. Vincent de Paul wd (pop 2,422)
• St. Vincent de Paul, College (pop 28)
• St. Vincent de Paul, Convent (pop 88)
• Ste. Rose, Parish and Village wd (pop 2,849)

1871 census

• St. François (pop 864)
• St. Martin (pop 2,747)
• St. Vincent de Paul wd (pop 2,320)
• Ste. Dorothée, par. wd (pop 989)
• Ste. Rose wd (pop 1,816)
• Ste. Rose, Village wd (pop 736)

1881 census

• St. François de Sales (pop 905)
• St. Martin (pop 2,613)
• St. Vincent de Paul wd (pop 2,492)
• Ste. Dorothée, par. wd (pop 939)
• Ste. Rose wd (pop 1,674)
• Ste. Rose, Village wd (pop 839)

1891 census

• St. François de Sales (pop 808)
• St. Martin (pop 2,678)
• St. Vincent de Paul wd (pop 2,519)
• Ste. Dorothée, par. wd (pop 876)
• Ste. Rose wd (pop 1,498)
• Ste. Rose, Village wd (pop 1,057)

1901 census

• Ahuntsic (pop 366)
• Beaurivage (pop 873)
• Longue Pointe wd (pop 2,519)
• Pointe aux Trembles wd (pop 1,291)
• Rivière des Prairies (pop 677)
• Sault au Récollet (pop 1,576)
• St. François de Sales (pop 857)
• St. Joseph de Bordeaux (pop 491)
• St. Léonard de Port Maurice, T-V wd (pop 1,193)
• St. Martin (pop 2,331)
• St. Martin vl (pop 849)
• St. Vincent de Paul wd (pop 1,345)
• St. Vincent de Paul vl (pop 1,462)
• Ste. Dorothée, par. wd (pop 881)
• Ste. Rose wd (pop 1,369)
• Ste. Rose, Village wd (pop 1,154)
• Villeray (pop 509)

1911 census

• Ahuntsic (pop 928)
• Beaurivage (pop 1,607)
• Bordeaux t-v (pop 994)
• Longue Pointe wd (pop 5,531)
• Parc Amherst (pop 1,691)
• Pointe-aux-Trembles wd (pop 560)
• Pointe-aux-Trembles t-v wd (pop 1,167)
• Rivière des Prairies (pop 638)
• Sault au Récollet (partie) (pop 624)
• Sault au Récollet vl (pop 1,311)
• St. Elzéar de Laval (pop 920)
• St. François de Sales
• St. Léonard de Port Maurice, T-V wd (pop 1,268)
• St. Martin
• St. Martin vl (pop 441)
• St. Vincent de Paul wd (pop 1,422)
• St. Vincent de Paul vl (pop 1,492)
• Ste. Dorothée, par. wd (pop 900)
• Ste. Rose wd (pop 1,284)
• Ste. Rose, Village wd (pop 1,480)
• Tétreaultville (pop 1,087)
• Villeray (pop 1,164)

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 Terrebonne in 1861.
• Re-formed from Hochelaga in 1901.
• Merged into Montréal & Jésus Islands—Iles in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Laval

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.