Quebec County, Quebec

Quebec County 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 Q7269765.

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

• Ancienne Lorette wd (pop 889)
• Beauport (pop 2,377)
• Charlesbourg, VL wd (pop 2,063)
• General Hospital (pop 182)
• Indians (pop 218)
• Montréal, cité wd (pop 57,715)
• Notre-Dame (pop 3,022)
• St. Ambroise wd (pop 2,575)
• St. Dunstan (pop 391)
• St. Edmond (pop 481)
• St. Gabriel (pop 1,397)
• St. Roch, No. 1 (pop 2,200)
• St. Roch, No. 2 (pop 1,506)
• Ste. Foye wd (pop 2,173)

1861 census

• Ancienne Lorette wd (pop 2,203)
• Beauport (pop 3,260)
• Charlesbourg, VL wd (pop 2,447)
• General Hospital (pop 274)
• Lunatic Asylum (pop 490)
• NO DATA
• Notre Dame de Québec (pop 1,181)
• St. Ambroise wd (pop 3,152)
• St. Colomban (pop 3,580)
• St. Dunstan (pop 505)
• St. Edmond (pop 689)
• St. Gabriel (pop 1,667)
• St. Roch (pop 6,936)
• Ste. Foy (pop 1,509)

1871 census

• Beauport (pop 4,053)
• Charlesbourg, VL wd (pop 2,403)
• L'Ancienne Lorette wd (pop 2,233)
• La Jeune Lorette (pop 3,395)
• NO DATA
• St. Colomban (pop 3,185)
• St. Dunstan (pop 354)
• St. Gabriel W-O (pop 960)
• Ste. Foy (pop 1,625)
• Stoneham (pop 362)
• Tewkesbury (pop 300)
• Valcartier (pop 737)

1881 census

• Ancienne Lorette wd (pop 2,488)
• Beauport (pop 4,429)
• Charlesbourg, VL wd (pop 2,333)
• Lac Beauport (pop 286)
• St. Ambroise wd (pop 3,513)
• St. Colomb de Sillery wd (pop 3,277)
• St. Edmond de Stoneham (pop 820)
• St. Félix du Cap Rouge wd (pop 678)
• St. Gabriel de Valcartier wd (pop 592)
• St. Gabriel W-O (pop 777)
• Ste. Foye wd (pop 1,085)

1891 census

• Ancienne Lorette wd (pop 2,444)
• Beauport (pop 4,644)
• Charlesbourg, VL wd (pop 2,328)
• St. Ambroise de la J. Lorette (pop 2,934)
• St. Ambroise, Village (pop 875)
• St. Colomb de Sillery wd (pop 2,663)
• St. Dunstan, Lac Beauport wd (pop 216)
• St. Félix du Cap Rouge wd (pop 534)
• St. Gabriel de Valcartier wd (pop 504)
• St. Gabriel W-O (pop 600)
• Ste. Foye wd (pop 1,034)
• Stoneham and Tewkesbury wd (pop 727)

1901 census

• Ancienne Lorette wd (pop 2,641)
• Beauport (pop 6,800)
• Charlesbourg, VL wd (pop 2,512)
• St. Ambroise wd (pop 2,715)
• St. Ambroise, Village (pop 1,555)
• St. Colomb de Sillery wd (pop 2,069)
• St. Dunstan (pop 228)
• St. Félix du Cap Rouge wd (pop 417)
• St. Gabriel de Valcartier wd (pop 452)
• St. Gabriel W-O (pop 478)
• Ste. Foye wd (pop 1,066)
• Stoneham, Tewkesbury & Unorg. Territory wd (pop 1,168)

1911 census

• Ancienne Lorette wd (pop 2,740)
• Beauport (pop 3,546)
• Charlesbourg, VL wd (pop 2,127)
• Lorette vl (pop 1,588)
• Montmorency vl wd (pop 1,717)
• NO DATA
• Notre Dame des Laurentides wd (pop 1,010)
• Other parts - Autres parties
• St. Ambroise wd
• St. Colomb de Sillery wd (pop 1,969)
• St. Dunstan Lac Beauport (pop 225)
• St. Félix du Cap Rouge wd (pop 490)
• St. Gabriel de Valcartier wd (pop 470)
• St. Gabriel W.—O. (pop 449)
• St. Grégoire de Montmorency wd (pop 2,710)
• St. Gérard de Magella
• Ste. Foye wd (pop 1,219)
• Stoneham & Tewkesbury wd (pop 735)

1921 census

• Ancienne Lorette wd (pop 2,620)
• Beauport (pop 2,774)
• Beauport, VL (pop 3,240)
• Charlesbourg, VL wd (pop 1,267)
• Courville, T-V wd (pop 1,293)
• Giffard, VL wd (pop 1,254)
• Loretteville, VL wd (pop 2,066)
• Montmorency, VL wd (pop 1,904)
• NO DATA
• Notre Dame des Laurentides wd (pop 1,150)
• Québec W.-O., T-V (pop 130)
• Québec, C wd (pop 95,193)
• Réserves Indiennes (pop 429)
• St. Ambroise wd (pop 1,907)
• St. Charles de Charlesbourg (pop 1,014)
• St. Charles de Charlesbourg E. (pop 295)
• St. Colomb de Sillery wd (pop 2,116)
• St. Dunstan Lac Beauport (pop 169)
• St. Félix du Cap Rouge wd (pop 557)
• St. Gabriel de Valcartier wd (pop 287)
• St. Gabriel W.—O. (pop 308)
• St. Grégoire de Montmorency wd (pop 1,463)
• St. Gérard de Magella (pop 833)
• Ste. Foye wd (pop 1,473)
• Stoneham & Tewkesbury wd (pop 885)

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 Quebec Centre, Quebec East in 1871.
• Re-formed from Québec Centre, Québec East, Québec West in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Quebec_County
• Wikidata: Q7269765
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_County,_Quebec
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_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.