Wolfe (1861–1871), Quebec

Wolfe (1861–1871) was a Census Division in Quebec as recorded in the 1861–1871 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 Q2991471.

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

1861 census

• Dudswell wd (pop 727)
• Garthby wd (pop 275)
• Ham (pop 610)
• Ham, S (pop 223)
• St. Camille wd (pop 486)
• Stratford wd (pop 413)
• Weedon wd (pop 809)
• Wolfestown (pop 1,472)
• Wotton wd (pop 1,533)

1871 census

• Dudswell wd (pop 875)
• Garthby, Stratford (pop 824)
• Ham, N (pop 1,043)
• Ham, S (pop 293)
• St. Camille wd (pop 606)
• Weedon wd (pop 1,286)
• Wolfestown (pop 2,089)
• Wotton wd (pop 1,807)

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 Sherbrooke (1851) in 1861.
• Merged into Richmond & Wolfe in 1881.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Wolfe
• Wikidata: Q2991471
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Wolfe_(Qu%C3%A9bec)

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.