Outaouais, Quebec

Outaouais was an Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1851–1861 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 Q2991266.

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

• Allumettes (pop 1,025)
• Aylmer, Town wd (pop 1,169)
• Bristol wd (pop 1,491)
• Buckingham wd (pop 2,204)
• Calumet wd (pop 783)
• Chichester wd (pop 172)
• Clarendon wd (pop 1,759)
• Derry wd (pop 36)
• Eardley wd (pop 688)
• Hull wd (pop 2,811)
• Litchfield wd (pop 756)
• Lochaber (pop 1,082)
• Lochaber, Gore (pop 225)
• Low wd (pop 272)
• Mansfield wd (pop 426)
• Masham (pop 998)
• NO DATA
• Oldfield (pop 28)
• Onslow (pop 805)
• Petite Nation (pop 3,356)
• Portland (pop 102)
• Sheen (pop 230)
• Templeton, VL wd (pop 1,711)
• Wakefield wd (pop 588)
• Waltham (pop 186)

1861 census

• Addington wd (pop 65)
• Aumond wd (pop 131)
• Aylmer, Village wd (pop 1,586)
• Aylwin wd (pop 350)
• Bidwell (pop 23)
• Bigelow wd (pop 148)
• Blake wd (pop 70)
• Bouchette wd (pop 400)
• Bouthillier wd (pop 59)
• Bowman wd (pop 232)
• Buckingham wd (pop 2,417)
• Buckingham, Village wd (pop 1,186)
• Cameron wd (pop 237)
• Denholm wd (pop 213)
• Derry, East and West (pop 260)
• Dudley wd (pop 65)
• Eardley wd (pop 1,005)
• Egan wd (pop 140)
• Hartwell wd (pop 290)
• Hincks wd (pop 262)
• Hull wd (pop 3,711)
• Kensington wd (pop 211)
• Kiamica (pop 218)
• Killaly and Sicotte (pop 35)
• Lochaber (pop 2,099)
• Low wd (pop 822)
• Maniwaky and McGill (pop 222)
• Masham (pop 1,764)
• NO DATA
• Northfield wd (pop 206)
• Petite Nation (pop 2,451)
• Portland (pop 429)
• Preston wd (pop 65)
• Ripon wd (pop 609)
• Ste. Angélique wd (pop 1,553)
• Suffolk, Wells and Villeneuve (pop 142)
• Templeton, VL wd (pop 2,646)
• Wabasse and Wright (pop 508)
• Wakefield wd (pop 927)

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 into Pontiac in 1861.
• Split into Ottaoua Centre, Ottaoua East, Ottawa West in 1871.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Outaouais
• Wikidata: Q2991266
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_County,_Quebec
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Hull

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.