St. Colomb de Sillery, Quebec (1911 census)

Name: St. Colomb de Sillery (1911)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. Colomb de Sillery was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 1,969. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3483898. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.778°N, 71.256°W.

Population

In 1911, St. Colomb de Sillery had a population of 1,969: 919 male and 1,050 female residents. Population density was 513.3 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	3,277
1891	2,663
1901	2,069
1911	1,969
1921	2,116

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, St. Colomb de Sillery shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 30 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 2,455 area in acres, 1,969 total population, 1,050 females in the population, 919 males in the population, 702 single (never-married) females, 581 single (never-married) males, 513.30 population per square mile, 361 families, 299 married males, 294 married females, 54 widowed females, 32 widowed males, 7 males with marital status not given, 3.84 area in square miles. 2,069 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 1,264 persons of French origin, 519 persons of British origin (Irish), 134 persons of British origin (English), 20 persons of Italian origin, 19 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 9 persons of Scandinavian origin, 2 persons of German origin. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

Religion (1911). This community's record includes 1,701 Roman Catholics, 189 Anglicans (Church of England), 40 Presbyterians, 29 Protestants (general / no denomination specified), 7 Methodists, 2 Congregationalists, 2 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2; V2T7.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 236 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 9 people connected to this place who were alive in 1911, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Sir James Macpherson Le Moine	1825–1912	died here
Charles-Alphonse-Pantaléon Pelletier	1837–1911	died here
Sir F. (François) Langelier	1838–1915	died here
Philomène Labrecque	1852–1920	died here
Pierre-Évariste LeBlanc	1853–1918	died here
Charles Huot	1855–1930	died here
Louis-Philippe Brodeur	1862–1924	died here
Marie-Clément Staub	1876–1936	died here
mère Marie Sainte-Cécile de Rome	1897–1929	died here

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC190006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC081007 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q3483898
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sillery,_Quebec_City
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sillery_(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. Colomb de Sillery, Quebec (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-colomb-de-sillery-qc190006-1911/.