St. Alexis, Quebec (1911 census)

St. Alexis was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 1,329. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3461722. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.943°N, 73.632°W.

Population

In 1911, St. Alexis had a population of 1,329: 660 male and 669 female residents. Population density was 75.9 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

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 St. Alexis, VL, 1921 (15.6% of this CSD's polygon).
• In a later year, this CSD contained St. Alexis, 1921 (84.4% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, St. Alexis shared boundaries with:

• St. Esprit
• St. Jacques
• Ste. Julienne

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 19 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 11,205 area in acres, 1,329 total population, 669 females in the population, 660 males in the population, 426 single (never-married) females, 413 single (never-married) males, 258 families, 227 married males, 222 married females, 75.91 population per square mile, 21 widowed females, 20 widowed males, 17.51 area in square miles. 1,153 population in the previous census (1901 reference column included in 1911 V1T1). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Ethnic origin (1911). This community's record includes 1,324 persons of French origin, 3 persons of British origin (English), 2 persons of British origin (Irish). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

Religion (1911). This community's record includes 1,329 Roman Catholics. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 241 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC176002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC176002 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3461722
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Alexis,_Quebec
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Alexis_(Qu%C3%A9bec)

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1911 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). "St. Alexis, Quebec (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-alexis-qc176002-1911/.