Richelieu, Quebec

Richelieu 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 Q2991390.

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

• St. Aimé wd (pop 4,310)
• St. Barnabé (pop 1,415)
• St. Charles wd (pop 1,624)
• St. Denis wd (pop 3,260)
• St. Judes wd (pop 1,650)
• St. Ours, Parish wd (pop 3,394)
• St. Ours, Town—Ville wd (pop 542)
• St. Pierre, Sorel (pop 3,967)
• Ste. Victoire wd (pop 2,100)
• William Henry wd (pop 3,424)

1861 census

• Sorel Parish (pop 3,550)
• Sorel, Town, College and Convent (pop 4,778)
• St. Aimé wd (pop 3,368)
• St. Marcel wd (pop 1,213)
• St. Ours, Parish wd (pop 1,731)
• St. Ours, Town—Ville wd (pop 528)
• St. Robert wd (pop 1,369)
• St. Roch wd (pop 1,005)
• Ste. Victoire wd (pop 1,528)

1871 census

• Sorel wd (pop 3,446)
• Sorel, Town—Ville wd (pop 5,636)
• St. Aimé wd (pop 3,150)
• St. Marcel wd (pop 1,222)
• St. Ours wd (pop 1,785)
• St. Ours, Town—Ville wd (pop 701)
• St. Robert wd (pop 1,516)
• St. Roch wd (pop 972)
• Ste. Victoire wd (pop 1,620)

1881 census

• Sorel wd (pop 877)
• Sorel, Town—Ville wd (pop 5,791)
• St. Aimé wd (pop 2,254)
• St. Joseph (pop 501)
• St. Louis (pop 982)
• St. Marcel wd (pop 1,330)
• St. Ours wd (pop 1,804)
• St. Ours, Town—Ville wd (pop 808)
• St. Robert wd (pop 2,126)
• St. Roch wd (pop 1,020)
• Ste. Anne wd (pop 1,175)
• Ste. Victoire wd (pop 1,550)

1891 census

• Sorel, City—Cité wd (pop 6,669)
• St. Aimé wd (pop 2,481)
• St. Joseph de Sorel wd (pop 1,210)
• St. Louis de Bonsecours wd (pop 1,092)
• St. Marcel wd (pop 1,169)
• St. Ours wd (pop 1,654)
• St. Ours, Town—Ville wd (pop 918)
• St. Pierre de Sorel wd (pop 492)
• St. Robert wd (pop 1,879)
• St. Roch wd (pop 1,045)
• Ste. Anne de Sorel wd (pop 1,213)
• Ste. Victoire wd (pop 1,532)

1901 census

• Sorel, City—Cité wd (pop 7,057)
• St. Aimé wd (pop 1,967)
• St. Joseph de Sorel wd (pop 1,257)
• St. Louis de Bonsecours wd (pop 828)
• St. Ours wd (pop 1,328)
• St. Ours, Town—Ville wd (pop 609)
• St. Pierre de Sorel wd (pop 482)
• St. Robert wd (pop 1,562)
• St. Roch wd (pop 900)
• Ste. Anne de Sorel wd (pop 1,123)
• Ste. Victoire wd (pop 1,463)

1911 census

• Massueville, VL wd (pop 776)
• Sorel t-v wd (pop 8,420)
• St. Aimé wd (pop 1,088)
• St. Joseph de Sorel wd (pop 623)
• St. Joseph, VL wd
• St. Louis de Bonsecours wd (pop 791)
• St. Marcel wd
• St. Ours wd (pop 1,132)
• St. Ours, T-V wd (pop 622)
• St. Pierre de Sorel wd (pop 395)
• St. Robert wd (pop 1,431)
• St. Roch wd (pop 821)
• Ste. Anne de Sorel wd (pop 946)
• Ste. Victoire wd

1921 census

• Massueville, VL wd (pop 654)
• Sorel, C wd (pop 8,174)
• St. Aimé wd (pop 879)
• St. Joseph de Sorel wd (pop 329)
• St. Joseph, VL wd (pop 1,658)
• St. Louis de Bonsecours wd (pop 752)
• St. Marcel wd (pop 784)
• St. Ours wd (pop 1,145)
• St. Ours, T-V wd (pop 622)
• St. Pierre de Sorel wd (pop 366)
• St. Robert wd (pop 1,316)
• St. Roch wd (pop 773)
• Ste. Anne de Sorel wd (pop 885)
• Ste. Victoire wd (pop 1,211)

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 St. Hyacinthe in 1861.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Richelieu
• Wikidata: Q2991390
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Richelieu

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.