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Census Division: Richmond (1861–1871) | Province: Quebec | Years active: 1861–1871 | Wikidata: Q2991392

Richmond (1861–1871), Quebec

Richmond (1861–1871) was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1861–1871 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 Q2991392.

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.

Year	Population	CSDs
1861	8,884	8
1871	11,213	10

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1861 census

Brompton and Gore (pop 1,168)
Cleveland wd (pop 1,916)
Danville, Village, Academy and College of St. Francis (pop 540)
Melbourne wd (pop 1,621)
Melbourne, Village wd (pop 243)
Shipton wd (pop 2,132)
Stoke wd (pop 97)
Windsor wd (pop 1,167)

1871 census

Brompton wd (pop 856)
Cleveland wd (pop 1,398)
Danville, VL wd (pop 621)
Melbourne wd (pop 2,290)
Melbourne, Village wd (pop 270)
Richmond, T-V wd (pop 715)
Shipton wd (pop 2,354)
St. George de Windsor (pop 1,094)
Stoke wd (pop 508)
Windsor wd (pop 1,107)

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 Sherbrooke (1851) in 1861.
Merged into Richmond & Wolfe in 1881.

Identifiers

HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Richmond
Wikidata: Q2991392
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Richmond_(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.