Yamaska, Quebec

Yamaska 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 Q2991475.

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

• Indians in St. François (pop 236)
• La Baie (pop 3,086)
• St. David wd (pop 3,159)
• St. François wd (pop 4,385)
• St. Michel (pop 2,569)
• St. Zéphirin (pop 1,313)

1861 census

• La Baie (pop 2,982)
• Pierreville, VL wd (pop 2,745)
• St. David wd (pop 3,925)
• St. François wd (pop 2,312)
• St. Michel (pop 2,440)
• St. Zéphirin (pop 1,641)

1871 census

• La Baie (pop 2,691)
• Pierreville, VL wd (pop 3,116)
• St. David wd (pop 2,934)
• St. François wd (pop 2,329)
• St. Michel (pop 362)
• St. Pie wd (pop 1,242)
• St. Zéphirin (pop 1,550)
• Yamaska (pop 2,093)

1881 census

• La Baie du Febvre wd (pop 2,576)
• St. David wd (pop 3,106)
• St. François wd (pop 2,331)
• St. Michel (pop 1,939)
• St. Pie de Guire wd (pop 1,539)
• St. Thomas de Pierreville wd (pop 3,373)
• St. Zéphirin (pop 1,771)
• Yamaska, Village (pop 456)

1891 census

• La Baie du Febvre wd (pop 2,055)
• Pierreville, VL wd (pop 1,297)
• St. David wd (pop 2,312)
• St. Elphège wd (pop 712)
• St. François wd (pop 2,255)
• St. Michel (pop 1,747)
• St. Pie de Guire wd (pop 1,289)
• St. Thomas de Pierreville wd (pop 2,121)
• St. Zéphirin de Courval wd (pop 1,632)
• Yamaska, Village (pop 638)

1901 census

• La Baie du Febvre wd (pop 1,902)
• La Visitation wd (pop 560)
• Notre-Dame de Pierreville wd (pop 996)
• Pierreville, VL wd (pop 1,108)
• St. David wd (pop 2,050)
• St. Elphège wd (pop 717)
• St. François wd (pop 2,639)
• St. Michel (pop 1,575)
• St. Pie de Guire wd (pop 1,268)
• St. Thomas (pop 932)
• St. Zéphirin (pop 1,695)
• Yamaska vl (pop 762)

1911 census

• La Baie du Febvre wd (pop 1,725)
• La Visitation wd (pop 562)
• Notre-Dame de Pierreville wd (pop 994)
• Pierreville, VL wd (pop 1,363)
• St. Bonaventure d'Upton wd (pop 1,441)
• St. David wd (pop 1,911)
• St. Elphège wd (pop 574)
• St. François wd
• St. Guillaume d'Upton (pop 1,772)
• St. Guillaume, VL wd (pop 905)
• St. Gérard de Magella
• St. Joachim de Courval wd (pop 548)
• St. Michel
• St. Pie de Guire wd (pop 933)
• St. Thomas
• St. Zéphirin (pop 1,383)
• Yamaska vl (pop 695)

1921 census

• Indian reserves (pop 342)
• La Baieville, VL (pop 536)
• La Visitation wd (pop 500)
• Notre-Dame de Pierreville wd (pop 798)
• Pierreville, VL wd (pop 1,394)
• St. Antoine (La Baie du Febvre) wd (pop 1,277)
• St. Bonaventure d'Upton wd (pop 1,225)
• St. David wd (pop 1,618)
• St. Elphège wd (pop 678)
• St. François du Lac wd (pop 1,100)
• St. François du Lac, VL wd (pop 740)
• St. Guillaume d'Upton (pop 1,494)
• St. Guillaume, VL wd (pop 937)
• St. Gérard de Magella (pop 468)
• St. Joachim de Courval wd (pop 569)
• St. Michel d'Yamaska (pop 975)
• St. Michel, VL wd (pop 610)
• St. Pie de Guire wd (pop 832)
• St. Thomas de Pierreville wd (pop 717)
• St. Zéphirin de Courval wd (pop 1,246)

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_QC_Yamaska
• Wikidata: Q2991475
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Yamaska

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.