St. Benoit-Labre & St. Léon le Grand, Quebec (1911 census)
St. Benoit-Labre & St. Léon le Grand was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 2,430. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.429°N, 67.450°W.
Population
In 1911, St. Benoit-Labre & St. Léon le Grand had a population of 2,430: 1,300 male and 1,130 female residents. Population density was 62.0 people per square mile.
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 was contained in St. Benoît-Labre & St. Edmond (Amqui), 1901 (74.6% share).
Later boundary forms
- In a later year, this CSD contained St. Benoit Joseph Labre, 1921 (57.2% of this CSD's polygon).
Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911
In the 1911 census, St. Benoit-Labre & St. Léon le Grand shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1911
The 1911 census recorded 24 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.
Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 25,088 area in acres, 2,430 total population, 1,300 males in the population, 1,130 females in the population, 888 single (never-married) males, 725 single (never-married) females, 390 families, 386 married males, 381 married females, 61.99 population per square mile, 39.20 area in square miles, 25 widowed males, 23 widowed females, 1 legally separated females, 1 legally separated males. 2,632 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 2,416 persons of French origin, 4 persons of German origin, 1 persons of Italian origin. 9 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: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.)
Religion (1911). This community's record includes 2,426 Roman Catholics, 3 Presbyterians, 1 Anglicans (Church of England). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2.)
Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 374 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
QC193010— year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file - Persistent place ID:
PLACE_QC193010— 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 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. Benoit-Labre & St. Léon le Grand, Quebec (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-benoit-labre-st-l-on-le-grand-qc193010-1911/.