St. Boniface de Shawinigan, Quebec (1921 census)

St. Boniface de Shawinigan was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1921 Census of Canada with a population of 1,042. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q112911955. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.525°N, 72.846°W.

Population

In 1921, St. Boniface de Shawinigan had a population of 1,042: 536 male and 506 female residents.

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1921

In the 1921 census, St. Boniface de Shawinigan shared boundaries with:

• Baie Shawinigan, VL
• Charette
• St. Barnabé
• St. Boniface de Shawinigan, VL
• St. Elie de Caxton
• St. Etienne des Grès
• St. Mathieu du Lac Bellemare
• Ste. Flore

Full census record, 1921

The 1921 census recorded 14 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1921). This community's record includes 1,042 total population, 536 males in the population, 518 males born in Canada, 506 females in the population, 500 females born in Canada, 18 males born outside the British Empire, 6 females born outside the British Empire. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T16.)

Ethnic origin (1921). This community's record includes 1,023 persons of French origin, 11 persons of Italian origin, 4 persons of British origin (English), 3 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 1 persons of other European origin. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T27.)

Religion (1921). This community's record includes 1,035 Roman Catholics, 7 Presbyterians. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T38.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC093005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC093005 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q112911955

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). "St. Boniface de Shawinigan, Quebec (1921 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-boniface-de-shawinigan-qc093005-1921/.