St. Hyacinthe, Quebec

St. Hyacinthe 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 Q2991405.

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

• Abbotsford (pop 522)
• La Présentation wd (pop 1,755)
• L’Ange Gardien (pop 1,463)
• St. Césaire wd (pop 4,866)
• St. Damase wd (pop 2,783)
• St. Dominique wd (pop 1,996)
• St. Hugues, VL wd (pop 2,990)
• St. Hyacinthe, Parish wd (pop 3,313)
• St. Hyacinthe, Town wd (pop 3,194)
• St. Pie wd (pop 4,056)
• St. Simon wd (pop 1,784)
• Ste. Rosalie wd (pop 1,901)

1861 census

• La Présentation wd (pop 1,901)
• St. Barnabé (pop 1,316)
• St. Charles wd (pop 1,341)
• St. Damase wd (pop 2,469)
• St. Denis and Convent (pop 2,674)
• St. Hyacinthe, Parish wd (pop 3,636)
• St. Hyacinthe, Seminary and Convent (pop 3,695)
• St. Jude wd (pop 1,845)

1871 census

• La Présentation wd (pop 1,839)
• St. Barnabé wd (pop 1,239)
• St. Charles wd (pop 1,176)
• St. Damase wd (pop 2,345)
• St. Denis wd (pop 2,463)
• St. Hyacinthe wd (pop 2,581)
• St. Hyacinthe le Confesseur wd (pop 788)
• St. Hyacinthe, City—Cité wd (pop 3,746)
• St. Jude wd (pop 2,133)

1881 census

• La Présentation wd (pop 1,318)
• Notre-Dame de St. Hyacinthe (pop 3,240)
• St. Barnabé wd (pop 1,216)
• St. Charles wd (pop 1,043)
• St. Damase wd (pop 2,112)
• St. Denis wd (pop 2,286)
• St. Hyacinthe le Confesseur wd (pop 935)
• St. Hyacinthe, City—Cité wd (pop 5,321)
• St. Jude wd (pop 1,959)
• St. Louis (pop 206)
• Ste. Marie Madeleine wd (pop 995)

1891 census

• La Présentation wd (pop 1,285)
• Notre-Dame de St. Hyacinthe (pop 2,799)
• St. Barnabé wd (pop 1,005)
• St. Charles wd (pop 989)
• St. Damase wd (pop 1,718)
• St. Denis wd (pop 2,250)
• St. Hyacinthe le Confesseur wd (pop 940)
• St. Hyacinthe, City—Cité wd (pop 7,016)
• St. Jude wd (pop 2,197)
• St. Louis de Bonsecours wd (pop 298)
• Ste. Marie Madeleine wd (pop 936)

1901 census

• La Providence, VL (pop 819)
• La Présentation wd (pop 1,273)
• Notre-Dame (pop 521)
• St. Barnabé wd (pop 913)
• St. Charles wd (pop 931)
• St. Damase wd (pop 1,446)
• St. Denis wd (pop 1,945)
• St. Hyacinthe le Confesseur wd (pop 673)
• St. Hyacinthe, City—Cité wd (pop 9,210)
• St. Joseph, VL wd (pop 352)
• St. Jude wd (pop 1,609)
• St. Thomas d'Aquin wd (pop 814)
• Ste. Marie-Magdeleine (pop 1,037)

1911 census

• La Providence, VL (pop 894)
• La Présentation wd (pop 1,218)
• Notre-Dame (pop 584)
• St. Barnabé wd
• St. Bernard
• St. Charles wd (pop 889)
• St. Damase wd
• St. Denis wd
• St. Denis, VL wd (pop 733)
• St. Hyacinthe le Confesseur wd (pop 648)
• St. Hyacinthe, City—Cité wd (pop 9,797)
• St. Joseph, VL wd
• St. Judes wd (pop 1,165)
• St. Thomas d'Aquin wd (pop 891)
• Ste. Marie-Magdeleine (pop 1,039)

1921 census

• La Providence, VL (pop 1,078)
• La Présentation wd (pop 1,062)
• St. Barnabé wd (pop 839)
• St. Bernard de Michaudville wd (pop 443)
• St. Charles wd (pop 773)
• St. Damase wd (pop 1,256)
• St. Denis wd (pop 1,053)
• St. Denis, VL wd (pop 820)
• St. Hyacinthe (Notre Dame de) wd (pop 626)
• St. Hyacinthe le Confesseur wd (pop 760)
• St. Hyacinthe, City—Cité wd (pop 10,859)
• St. Joseph, VL wd (pop 540)
• St. Judes wd (pop 1,101)
• St. Thomas d'Aquin wd (pop 828)
• Ste. Madeleine, VL wd (pop 449)
• Ste. Marie Madeleine wd (pop 611)

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 Richelieu in 1861.
• Split into Bagot in 1861.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_St._Hyacinthe
• Wikidata: Q2991405
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Saint-Hyacinthe

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.