Verchères (1851–1891), Quebec
Verchères (1851–1891) was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1851–1891 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 Q2991456.
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 | 14,393 | 7 |
| 1861 | 15,485 | 8 |
| 1871 | 12,717 | 8 |
| 1881 | 12,449 | 9 |
| 1891 | 12,257 | 9 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1851 census
- Belœil wd (pop 2,250)
- Contrecoeur wd (pop 1,555)
- St. Antoine wd (pop 1,784)
- St. Marc wd (pop 1,243)
- Ste. Julie wd (pop 1,198)
- Varennes wd (pop 3,300)
- Verchères wd (pop 3,063)
1861 census
- Beloeil, T-V wd (pop 1,960)
- Contrecoeur wd (pop 2,141)
- Institutions (pop 403)
- St. Antoine wd (pop 1,821)
- St. Marc wd (pop 1,364)
- Ste. Julie wd (pop 1,433)
- Varennes wd (pop 3,153)
- Verchères wd (pop 3,210)
1871 census
- Beloeil, T-V wd (pop 1,719)
- Contrecoeur wd (pop 1,813)
- St. Antoine wd (pop 1,663)
- St. Marc wd (pop 1,117)
- Ste. Julie wd (pop 1,153)
- Varennes wd (pop 1,952)
- Varennes, Village wd (pop 561)
- Verchères wd (pop 2,739)
1881 census
- Beloeil, T-V wd (pop 1,732)
- Contrecoeur wd (pop 1,705)
- St. Antoine wd (pop 1,540)
- St. Marc wd (pop 1,036)
- Ste. Julie wd (pop 1,181)
- Ste. Théodosie (pop 546)
- Varennes wd (pop 1,789)
- Varennes, Village wd (pop 612)
- Verchères wd (pop 2,308)
1891 census
- Beloeil, T-V wd (pop 1,805)
- Contrecoeur wd (pop 1,760)
- St. Antoine wd (pop 1,473)
- St. Marc wd (pop 897)
- Ste. Julie wd (pop 1,299)
- Ste. Théodosie (pop 582)
- Varennes wd (pop 1,599)
- Varennes, Village wd (pop 802)
- Verchères wd (pop 2,040)
Lineage
Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.
- Merged into Chambly & Verchères in 1901.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_QC_Verchères - Wikidata: Q2991456
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Verch%C3%A8res
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.