St. Edouard des Méchins, Quebec (1921 census)

St. Edouard des Méchins was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1921 Census of Canada with a population of 633. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.396°N, 67.393°W.

Population

In 1921, St. Edouard des Méchins had a population of 633: 329 male and 304 female residents.

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 Lac au Saumon, 1911 (69.2% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1921

In the 1921 census, St. Edouard des Méchins shared boundaries with:

• Causapscal (St. Jacques le Majeur)
• St. Benoit Joseph Labre
• St. Edmond (Lac au Saumon), VL
• St. Léon le Grand

Full census record, 1921

The 1921 census recorded 9 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1921). This community's record includes 633 total population, 329 males in the population, 326 males born in Canada, 304 females in the population, 303 females born in Canada, 3 males born outside the British Empire, 1 females born outside the British Empire. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T16.)

Ethnic origin (1921). This community's record includes 633 persons of French origin. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T27.)

Religion (1921). This community's record includes 633 Roman Catholics. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T38.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC070008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC070008 — 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 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. Edouard des Méchins, Quebec (1921 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-edouard-des-m-chins-qc070008-1921/.