Maskinongé, Quebec

Maskinongé was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1861–1921 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 Q2991316.

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

• Hunterstown wd (pop 711)
• Maskinongé (pop 2,325)
• Rivière du Loup wd (pop 2,980)
• St. Didace wd (pop 1,654)
• St. Justin wd (pop 1,646)
• St. Léon wd (pop 2,218)
• St. Paulin wd (pop 1,065)
• Ste. Ursule wd (pop 2,191)

1871 census

• Hunterstown wd (pop 1,238)
• Maskinongé (pop 2,080)
• Rivière du Loup wd (pop 2,925)
• St. Didace wd (pop 2,055)
• St. Justin wd (pop 1,578)
• St. Léon wd (pop 1,801)
• St. Paulin wd (pop 1,080)
• Ste. Ursule wd (pop 2,322)

1881 census

• Hunterstown wd (pop 798)
• Louiseville, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,381)
• Maskinongé (pop 2,193)
• Mastigoche (pop 400)
• Rivière du Loup wd (pop 1,863)
• St. Alexis des Monts wd (pop 1,039)
• St. Didace wd (pop 2,403)
• St. Justin wd (pop 1,954)
• St. Léon wd (pop 1,787)
• St. Paulin wd (pop 1,285)
• Ste. Ursule wd (pop 2,390)

1891 census

• Hunterstown wd (pop 727)
• Louiseville, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,740)
• Mastigoche (pop 563)
• Rivière du Loup wd (pop 2,099)
• St. Alexis des Monts wd (pop 1,194)
• St. Didace wd (pop 1,954)
• St. Joseph (pop 2,021)
• St. Justin wd (pop 1,677)
• St. Léon wd (pop 1,875)
• St. Paulin wd (pop 1,453)
• Ste. Ursule wd (pop 2,490)
• Unorganized Territory (pop 36)

1901 census

• Hunterstown wd (pop 553)
• Louiseville, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,565)
• Mastigoche (pop 730)
• Rivière du Loup wd (pop 1,249)
• St. Alexis des Monts wd (pop 1,496)
• St. Didace wd (pop 1,499)
• St. Joseph (pop 2,060)
• St. Justin wd (pop 1,619)
• St. Léon wd (pop 1,653)
• St. Paulin wd (pop 1,244)
• Ste. Ursule wd (pop 2,105)
• Unorganized territory—Territoire non-organisé (pop 40)

1911 census

• Hunterstown wd (pop 604)
• Louiseville wd (pop 1,305)
• Louiseville, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,675)
• NO DATA
• Other parts - Autres parties
• St. Alexis des Monts wd (pop 1,618)
• St. Charles de Mandeville wd (pop 734)
• St. Didace wd (pop 1,463)
• St. Joseph de Maskinongé wd (pop 2,043)
• St. Justin wd (pop 1,435)
• St. Léon wd (pop 1,593)
• St. Paulin wd (pop 1,669)
• Ste. Ursule wd (pop 2,075)

1921 census

• Hunterstown wd (pop 571)
• Laviolette wd (pop 25)
• Louiseville (Rivière du Loup) wd (pop 1,310)
• Louiseville, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,772)
• NO DATA
• St. Alexis des Monts wd (pop 1,713)
• St. Didace wd (pop 1,050)
• St. Edouard de Maskinongé wd (pop 622)
• St. Ignace du Lac (Masson) (pop 653)
• St. Joseph de Maskinongé wd (pop 2,168)
• St. Justin wd (pop 1,393)
• St. Léon wd (pop 1,411)
• St. Paulin wd (pop 1,584)
• Ste. Angèle de Grand Pré wd (pop 494)
• Ste. Ursule wd (pop 1,487)

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 St. Maurice (1851–1861) in 1861.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Maskinongé
• Wikidata: Q2991316
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Maskinong%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.