Trois-Rivières & St. Maurice, Quebec

Trois-Rivières & St. Maurice was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1881–1911 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.

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1881 census

• Pointe du Lac wd (pop 1,607)
• Shawenegan wd (pop 1,368)
• St. Barnabé wd (pop 1,976)
• St. Elie wd (pop 797)
• St. Etienne wd (pop 3,119)
• St. Mathieu (pop 263)
• St. Sévère wd (pop 888)
• Unorganized Territory (pop 228)
• Yamachiche wd (pop 2,740)

1891 census

• Pointe du Lac wd (pop 1,366)
• St. Barnabé (pop 2,014)
• St. Boniface (pop 1,328)
• St. Elie de Caxton wd (pop 835)
• St. Etienne des Grès wd (pop 2,166)
• St. Mathieu (pop 233)
• St. Sévère wd (pop 972)
• Trois-Rivières (part) (pop 295)
• Unorganized Territory (pop 125)
• Yamachiche wd (pop 2,025)
• Yamachiche, Village wd (pop 908)

1901 census

• Banlieue Trois-Rivières (pop 758)
• Pointe du Lac wd (pop 1,337)
• St. Barnabé (pop 2,291)
• St. Boniface (Shawinigan) wd (pop 3,818)
• St. Elie de Caxton wd (pop 1,375)
• St. Etienne des Grès wd (pop 1,741)
• St. Mathieu (pop 544)
• St. Sévère wd (pop 864)
• Trois-Rivières, Notre-Dame, Ward—Quartier (pop 1,128)
• Trois-Rivières, St. Louis, Ward—Quartier (pop 4,116)
• Trois-Rivières, St. Philippe, Ward—Quartier (pop 3,224)
• Trois-Rivières, Ste. Ursule Ward—Quartier (pop 1,513)
• Unorg. territory—Ter. non-organisé (pop 163)
• Yamachiche wd (pop 2,195)
• Yamachiche, Village wd (pop 1,100)

1911 census

• Baie de Shawinigan vl (pop 1,024)
• Banlieue Trois-Rivières (pop 750)
• NO DATA
• Pointe du Lac wd (pop 1,316)
• Shawinigan Falls t-v wd (pop 4,265)
• St. Barnabé
• St. Boniface (Shawinigan) wd (pop 1,513)
• St. Elie de Caxton wd (pop 1,281)
• St. Etienne des Grès wd (pop 1,688)
• St. Mathieu
• St. Sévère wd (pop 895)
• Ste. Flore wd (pop 2,541)
• Trois Rivières, C wd (pop 13,691)
• Unorg. ter. - Ter. non org.
• Yamachiche wd (pop 1,845)
• Yamachiche, Village wd (pop 965)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

• Re-formed from Saint Maurice South in 1881.
• Split off from Saint Maurice North in 1881.
• Re-formed from Trois-Rivières in 1901.
• Split off from Champlain in 1911.
• Merged into Champlain in 1921.
• Split into St. Maurice (1921) in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Trois-Rivières_&_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.