Côteau St. Louis, Quebec (1871 census)

Name: Côteau St. Louis (1871)
Address: Quebec, CA

Côteau St. Louis was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 2,215. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.524°N, 73.601°W.

Population

In 1871, Côteau St. Louis had a population of 2,215: 1,127 male and 1,088 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1861	1,746
1871	2,215

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD contained Mile End, Village, 1881 (25.4% of this CSD's polygon).
In a later year, this CSD contained Côte St. Louis, Town—Ville, 1881 (31.9% of this CSD's polygon).
In a later year, this CSD contained Outremont, C, 1881 (27.9% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, Côteau St. Louis shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 17 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 2,215 total population, 1,127 males, 1,088 females, 811 married persons, 446 families, 406 married males, 405 married females, 74 widowed persons, 53 widowed females, 21 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 1,330 single persons under 18, 700 single males under 18, 630 single females under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 319 inhabited houses, 319 occupied houses, 9 uninhabited houses, 6 houses under construction. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 53 people connected to this place who were alive in 1871, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
James Leslie	1786–1873	died here
J. (John) Bethune	1791–1872	died here
William Molson	1793–1875	died here
Thomas Brown Anderson	1796–1873	died here
Charles Séraphin Rodier	1797–1876	died here
Antoine-Olivier Berthelet	1798–1872	died here
François-Joseph-Victor Regnaud	1799–1872	died here
Charles Mondelet	1801–1876	died here
Rollo Campbell	1803–1871	died here
Hortense Globensky	1804–1873	died here
David Torrance	1805–1876	died here
Lemuel Cushing	1806–1875	died here
Thomas Cushing Aylwin	1806–1871	died here
Marie-Julie-Marguerite Céré de la Colombière	1807–1876	died here
Alexis-Frédéric Truteau	1808–1872	died here
Edwin Atwater	1808–1874	died here
Charles Smallwood	1812–1873	died here
Jean-Baptiste Prat	1812–1876	died here
Jean-Chrysostome Brauneis	1814–1871	died here
George Edward Clerk	1815–1875	died here
Charles Heavysege	1816–1876	died here
J.U. (Joseph Ubald) Baudry	1816–1876	died here
Antoine Mercier	1817–1875	died here
Dugald Mactavish	1817–1871	died here
Jacques-Félix Sincennes	1818–1876	died here
E. (Elkanah) Billings	1820–1876	died here
Stanley Clark Bagg	1820–1873	died here
Edward White	1822–1872	died here
Alfred Booker	1824–1871	died here
Louis Labrèche-Viger	1824–1872	died here
Masson	1826–1875	died here
Charles Laberge	1827–1874	died here
F. (Francis) Cassidy	1827–1873	died here
Patrick Delaney	1829–1874	died here
Albine Gadbois	1830–1874	died here
Joseph-Nazaire Dupuis	1844–1876	died here
Louis Rubenstein	1857–1931	born here
Maurice Perrault	1857–1909	born here
Joseph Venne	1858–1925	born here
קלרנס יצחק דה- סולה	1858–1920	born here
Arthur Godfrey Peuchen	1859–1929	born here
Victor Dubreuil	1859–1916	born here
Elizabeth Binmore	1860–1917	born here
Alexandre Carli	1861–1938	born here
William Gillies Ross	1863–1929	born here
Alphonse Verville	1864–1930	born here
Jules Jetté	1864–1927	born here
James Wilson Morrice	1865–1924	born here
Oscar-Félix Mercier	1866–1929	born here
Charles Allan Smart	1868–1937	born here
Henri Bourassa	1868–1952	born here
Georges Gauthier	1871–1940	born here
Joseph-Philéas Filion	1871–1940	born here

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC107004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC107004 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1871 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "Côteau St. Louis, Quebec (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/c-teau-st-louis-qc107004-1871/.