Saguenay (1851–1871), Quebec
Saguenay (1851–1871) was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1851–1871 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 Q2991404.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1851 | 20,783 | 28 |
| 1861 | 6,101 | 10 |
| 1871 | 1,788 | 2 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1851 census
- Bagot, Township (pop 2,438)
- Baie St. Paul wd (pop 3,212)
- Bergeronnes, Portneuf, Escoumins, Sault au Cochon, Isles Jérémie & King's Posts (pop 1,284)
- Callières, Township (pop 76)
- Chicoutimi, Township (pop 1,200)
- Eboulements (pop 2,107)
- Harvey, Township (pop 85)
- Indians (pop 663)
- Isles aux Coudres (pop 719)
- Jonquière, Township wd (pop 82)
- Kinogomi, Township (pop 182)
- La Trinité (pop 15)
- Labarre, Township (pop 100)
- Laterrière wd (pop 367)
- Malbaie wd (pop 2,653)
- Métabetchouan, Township (pop 50)
- Petit Saguenay & St. Jean (pop 348)
- Petite Rivière (pop 575)
- Rivière Ste. Marguerite (pop 47)
- Saguenay, Township (pop 243)
- Settrington, Township (pop 281)
- Simard, Township (pop 75)
- St. Fidèle (pop 600)
- St. Irénée wd (pop 811)
- St. Urbain wd (pop 729)
- Ste. Agnès (pop 1,278)
- Tadousac, Township (pop 141)
- Tremblay, Township (pop 422)
1861 census
- Bay of Kegasca, and other places (pop 933)
- Escoumins, Iberville and Mille Vaches (pop 1,029)
- Gibraltar Cove and other places (pop 370)
- Island of Anticosti wd (pop 67)
- River Moisie and other places (pop 705)
- River St. Jean and other places (pop 649)
- Saguenay and Rivière Ste. Marguerite (pop 200)
- Sault au Cochon, Islets Jérémie and Bersimis (pop 640)
- Shelldrake and other places (pop 1,050)
- Tadoussac and Bergeronnes (pop 458)
1871 census
- Escoumains wd (pop 1,023)
- Tadoussac, VL wd (pop 765)
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 Charlevoix, Chicoutimi (1861–1871) in 1861.
- Split into Labrador in 1871.
- Merged into Chicoutimi & Saguenay in 1881.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_QC_Saguenay - Wikidata: Q2991404
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguenay_County,_Quebec
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Saguenay
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.