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Census Division: St. Maurice (1851–1861) | Province: Quebec | Years active: 1851–1861 | Wikidata: Q2991407

St. Maurice (1851–1861), Quebec

St. Maurice (1851–1861) was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1851–1861 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 Q2991407.

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	27,562	15
1861	11,100	7

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1851 census

Hunterstown wd (pop 388)
Maskinongé (pop 3,881)
Pointe du Lac wd (pop 1,602)
Rivière du Loup wd (pop 3,048)
Shawanegan (pop 283)
Squatters in back Country (pop 300)
St. Barnabé (pop 1,490)
St. Didace wd (pop 689)
St. Etienne (pop 912)
St. Léon wd (pop 2,294)
St. Paulin wd (pop 767)
Ste. Ursule wd (pop 2,048)
Three Rivers, Gaol of Three Rivers, Friar’s School, Ursulines (pop 4,936)
Three Rivers, Parish (pop 801)
Yamachiche wd (pop 4,123)

1861 census

Pointe du Lac wd (pop 1,649)
St. Barnabé (pop 1,631)
St. Boniface (pop 1,010)
St. Etienne (pop 2,054)
St. Sévère wd (pop 936)
Three Rivers, Parish (pop 607)
Yamachiche wd (pop 3,213)

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 City of Three Rivers, Maskinongé in 1861.
Merged into Saint Maurice North in 1871.
Split into Saint Maurice South, Trois-Rivières in 1871.

Identifiers

HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_St._Maurice
Wikidata: Q2991407
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Saint-Maurice

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.