Québec, C, Quebec (1921 census)

Name: Québec, C (1921)
Address: Quebec, CA

Québec, C was a city in Quebec, recorded in the 1921 Census of Canada with a population of 95,193. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q2145. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.815°N, 71.251°W.

Population

In 1921, Québec, C had a population of 95,193: 44,198 male and 50,995 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1851	42,052
1921	95,193

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.

Earlier boundary forms

In an earlier year, this CSD contained Québec, ward-quartier Montcalm (Centre), 1911 (1.0% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Québec, ward-quartier Palais, 1911 (0.7% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Québec, ward-quartier St. Jean, 1911 (1.2% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Québec, ward-quartier St. Louis, 1911 (1.7% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Québec, ward-quartier Jacques Cartier, 1911 (1.3% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Québec, ward-quartier St. Roch, 1911 (3.3% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Québec, ward-quartier St. Valier, 1911 (3.9% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Banlieue S., 1911 (3.5% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Québec, ward-quartier Champlain, 1911 (1.1% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Québec, ward-quartier Montcalm, 1911 (4.2% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Québec, ward-quartier St. Pierre, 1911 (2.1% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Banlieue (Notre-Dame de Québec), 1911 (8.3% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Québec, ward-quartier St. Malo, 1911 (4.7% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Québec, ward-quartier St. Sauveur, 1911 (2.8% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Québec, ward-quartier Stadacona, 1911 (16.1% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained Québec, ward-quartier Limoilou, 1911 (14.2% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1921

In the 1921 census, Québec, C shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1921

The 1921 census recorded 47 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1921). This community's record includes 95,193 total population, 50,995 females in the population, 49,548 females born in Canada, 44,198 males in the population, 42,766 males born in Canada, 856 males born outside the British Empire, 783 females born outside the British Empire, 664 females born in the British Empire (excluding Canada), 576 males born in the British Empire (excluding Canada). (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T16.)

Ethnic origin (1921). This community's record includes 85,350 persons of French origin, 4,075 persons of British origin (Irish), 3,728 persons of British origin (English), 822 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 156 persons of Italian origin, 98 persons of Chinese or Japanese origin, 94 persons of German origin, 73 persons of Greek origin, 71 persons of Belgian origin, 64 persons of Syrian origin, 47 persons of other European origin, 37 persons of Scandinavian origin, 10 persons of British origin (other), 10 persons of Dutch origin, 7 persons of Austrian origin, 7 persons of Polish origin, 5 persons of Russian origin. 375 persons recorded under the 1921 official census category "Hebrew" (origin/ethnicity); now described as Jewish origin. 14 persons recorded under the 1911/1921 official census category "Negro"; refers to people of African descent. Term is now considered offensive and is preserved here only as the historical source label. 12 persons recorded under the official census category "Indian"; corresponds to what is now described as Indigenous (First Nations; in northern enumerations also Inuit) origin. "Indian" was simultaneously a census category and the legal/administrative term under the Indian Act (1876). (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T27.)

Religion (1921). This community's record includes 90,680 Roman Catholics, 1,661 Anglicans (Church of England), 1,184 Protestants (general / no denomination specified), 638 Presbyterians, 371 Jews, 276 Methodists, 138 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified, 72 Baptists, 54 Greek (Orthodox) Church adherents, 44 adherents of Eastern religions, 36 adherents of other sects (residual category in 1921), 12 Lutherans, 9 Salvation Army adherents, 5 Christians (general / no denomination specified), 4 Congregationalists, 2 Brethren, 2 members of the Evangelical Association, 1 Adventists. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T27; V1T38.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 70 people connected to this place who were alive in 1921, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Louis-Nazaire Bégin	1840–1925	died here
Bernard Leonard	1841–1924	died here
Cyrille Duquet	1841–1922	born and died here
Gustave Gagnon	1842–1930	died here
Frederick Montizambert	1843–1929	born here
Eugène Hamel	1845–1932	born and died here
Félicité Angers	1845–1924	born and died here
Charles-Eusèbe Dionne	1846–1925	died here
Edmund James Flynn	1847–1927	died here
Némèse Garneau	1847–1937	died here
Harry Staveley	1848–1925	born and died here
Nazaire LeVasseur	1848–1927	born and died here
Stanislas-Alphonse Roberge	1848–1924	born here
François-Xavier Drolet	1849–1924	died here
Joseph Vézina	1849–1924	born and died here
Joseph-Narcisse Gastonguay	1849–1922	born here
Charles-Amédée Vallée	1850–1924	born here
Elzéar Charest	1850–1927	died here
Eugène Rouillard	1851–1926	born and died here
J.-E. (Jules-Ernest) Livernois	1851–1933	died here
Pierre-Théophile Legaré	1851–1926	born here
Edward Thomas Davies Chambers	1852–1931	died here
Jean-Baptiste Bélanger	1852–1924	died here
Lawrence John Cannon	1852–1921	born and died here
Charles-Édouard Gauvin	1853–1935	born and died here
Michel-Delphis Brochu	1853–1933	born and died here
Victor A. Huard	1853–1929	born and died here
E. (Elzéar) DeLamarre	1854–1925	born here
George Eli Armstrong	1854–1933	born here
Irène-Mathilde Dégrès	1854–1921	died here
Maria Heathfield Pollard	1854–1937	born here
Charles Huot	1855–1930	born here
Louis-Philippe Pelletier	1857–1921	died here
Georges-Émile Tanguay	1858–1923	died here
Frances Mathilde Barnard	1859–1938	died here
Paul-Eugène Roy	1859–1926	died here
François-Louis Lessard	1860–1927	born here
Jean-Marie-Joseph-Pantaléon Pelletier	1860–1924	died here
Napoléon Lavoie	1860–1934	died here
Hormisdas Magnan	1861–1935	died here
Sir Lomer Gouin	1861–1929	died here
Jacques-Édouard Plamondon	1862–1928	died here
Olivier-Napoléon Drouin	1862–1934	born and died here
Adélard Turgeon	1863–1930	died here
Jean-Baptiste Carbonneau	1864–1936	died here
François Leclerc	1865–1939	died here
François-Théodule Daubigny	1865–1939	died here
Henry Ivan Neilson	1865–1931	born and died here
Victoria Grace Blackburn	1865–1928	born here
Gaudiose Hébert	1866–1923	born and died here
Joseph-Édouard Caron	1866–1930	died here
Louis de Lotbinière Harwood	1866–1934	born here
René Fortier	1866–1929	died here
Arthur Simard	1867–1931	born and died here
Charles-Abraham Paquet	1868–1936	died here
Philippe-Jacques Paradis	1868–1933	born and died here
Sir David Watson	1869–1922	born and died here
François-Xavier-Jules Dorion	1870–1939	died here
J.-M.-Amédée (Joseph-Marie-Amédée) Denault	1870–1939	died here
Marie-Louise Marmette	1870–1928	born here
Arthur Rousseau	1871–1934	died here
Arthur Marois	1872–1928	died here
Marie Sirois	1878–1934	born and died here
Dalbé Viau	1881–1938	died here
Joseph Sirois	1881–1941	born and died here
Arthur Vallée	1882–1939	died here
Louis-Stephen St-Laurent	1882–1973	died here
mère Marie Sainte-Cécile de Rome	1897–1929	born here
Gabrielle Roy	1909–1983	died here
Gérard Raymond	1912–1932	died here

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC081017 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC081017 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q2145
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu%C3%A9bec_(ville)

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1921 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). "Québec, C, Quebec (1921 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/qu-bec-c-qc081017-1921/.