Shefford, Quebec

Shefford 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 Q2991426.

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

• Brome wd (pop 2,095)
• Ely (pop 1,018)
• Farnham (pop 3,304)
• Granby wd (pop 2,392)
• Milton (pop 1,741)
• Roxton wd (pop 1,226)
• Shefford wd (pop 2,512)
• Stukeley (pop 2,194)

1861 census

• Ely (pop 1,748)
• Granby wd (pop 2,571)
• Granby, Village (pop 700)
• Milton (pop 2,790)
• Roxton wd (pop 3,438)
• Shefford wd (pop 3,712)
• Stukeley (pop 2,820)

1871 census

• Ely (pop 1,267)
• Ely N (pop 856)
• Granby wd (pop 2,225)
• Granby, Village (pop 876)
• Roxton wd (pop 2,396)
• Roxton Falls, Village wd (pop 992)
• Shefford wd (pop 3,542)
• St. Valérien wd (pop 1,293)
• Ste. Cécile wd (pop 1,791)
• Stukely N (pop 1,887)
• Stukely S (pop 712)
• Waterloo, T-V wd (pop 1,240)

1881 census

• Ely (pop 1,556)
• Ely N (pop 992)
• Granby wd (pop 2,879)
• Granby, Village (pop 1,040)
• Roxton wd (pop 2,357)
• Roxton Falls, Village wd (pop 1,170)
• Shefford wd (pop 2,936)
• St. Valérien wd (pop 1,806)
• Ste. Cécile de Milton wd (pop 1,516)
• Ste. Prudentienne (pop 1,996)
• Stukely N (pop 2,304)
• Stukely S (pop 1,064)
• Waterloo, T-V wd (pop 1,617)

1891 census

• Ely (pop 1,764)
• Ely N (pop 983)
• Granby wd (pop 2,795)
• Granby, Village (pop 1,710)
• Roxton wd (pop 1,765)
• Roxton Falls, Village wd (pop 908)
• Shefford wd (pop 3,241)
• St. Valérien wd (pop 1,906)
• Ste. Cécile de Milton wd (pop 1,496)
• Ste. Prudentienne (pop 1,832)
• Stukely N (pop 2,127)
• Stukely S (pop 1,003)
• Waterloo, T-V wd (pop 1,733)

1901 census

• Ely, North—Nord (pop 1,092)
• Ely, South—Sud (pop 1,643)
• Granby wd (pop 2,119)
• Granby, Village (pop 3,773)
• Roxton wd (pop 1,563)
• Roxton Falls, Village wd (pop 818)
• Shefford wd (pop 1,425)
• St. Alphonse de Granby wd (pop 541)
• St. Joachim wd (pop 1,126)
• St. Valérien wd (pop 1,795)
• Ste. Cécile de Milton wd (pop 1,142)
• Ste. Prudentienne (pop 1,330)
• Ste. Prudentienne, VL (pop 339)
• Stukely, North—Nord (pop 1,879)
• Stukely, South, Sud (pop 895)
• Waterloo, T-V wd (pop 1,797)
• West Shefford vl (pop 351)

1911 census

• Ely N. (pop 956)
• Ely S. (pop 1,766)
• Granby wd (pop 2,189)
• Granby, C wd (pop 4,750)
• Lawrenceville, VL wd (pop 226)
• Roxton wd (pop 1,334)
• Roxton Falls, Village wd (pop 873)
• Shefford wd (pop 1,394)
• St. Alphonse de Granby wd (pop 455)
• St. Joachim wd
• St. Valérien wd
• Ste. Cécile de Milton wd (pop 1,055)
• Ste. Prudentienne (pop 1,098)
• Ste. Prudentienne, VL (pop 510)
• Stukely N. (pop 1,481)
• Stukely S. (pop 827)
• Waterloo, T-V wd (pop 1,886)
• West Shefford vl (pop 363)

1921 census

• Ely N. (pop 857)
• Ely S. (pop 1,797)
• Granby wd (pop 2,584)
• Granby, C wd (pop 6,785)
• Lawrenceville, VL wd (pop 225)
• Roxton wd (pop 1,298)
• Roxton Falls, Village wd (pop 777)
• Shefford wd (pop 1,367)
• Shefford W.-O., VL (pop 331)
• St. Alphonse de Granby wd (pop 468)
• St. Joachim wd (pop 1,037)
• St. Valérien de Milton wd (pop 1,421)
• Ste. Cécile de Milton wd (pop 895)
• Ste. Prudentienne (pop 990)
• Ste. Prudentienne, VL (pop 408)
• Stukely N. (pop 1,417)
• Stukely S. (pop 829)
• Warden, VL (pop 185)
• Waterloo, T-V wd (pop 2,063)

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Shefford
• Wikidata: Q2991426
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shefford_County,_Quebec
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Shefford

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.