St. Hyacinthe, City—Cité, Quebec (1871 census)

Name: St. Hyacinthe, City—Cité (1871)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. Hyacinthe, City—Cité was a city in Quebec, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 3,746. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q141873. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.629°N, 72.954°W.

Population

In 1871, St. Hyacinthe, City—Cité had a population of 3,746: 1,736 male and 2,010 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	3,746
1881	5,321
1891	7,016
1901	9,210
1911	9,797
1921	10,859

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, St. Hyacinthe, City—Cité shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 19 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 3,746 total population, 2,010 females, 1,736 males, 1,266 married persons, 757 families, 636 married males, 630 married females, 198 widowed persons, 147 widowed females, 51 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 2,282 single persons under 18, 1,233 single females under 18, 1,049 single males under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 571 occupied houses, 570 inhabited houses, 31 uninhabited houses, 7 houses under construction, 1 dwellings that are temporary vessels. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 603 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 23 people connected to this place who were alive in 1871, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Joseph Casavant	1807–1874	born and died here
Joseph La Rocque	1808–1887	died here
Pierre-Claude Boucher de la Bruère	1808–1871	died here
Charles La Rocque	1809–1875	died here
Joseph-Sabin Raymond	1810–1887	born and died here
Sicotte	1812–1889	died here
Louis Antoine Dessaulles	1818–1895	born here
Hilaire Millier	1823–1889	died here
Magloire Lanctôt	1823–1877	died here
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau	1824–1901	died here
P.S. (Pierre Samuel) Gendron	1828–1889	died here
Aurélie Caouette	1833–1905	born and died here
P. (Pierre) Bachand	1835–1878	died here
Louis Côté	1836–1915	died here
Boucher de la Bruère	1837–1917	born here
Alexandrine Teyssèdre	1842–1921	died here
Jérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne	1844–1910	died here
Ferdinand Gagnon	1849–1886	born here
Élisabeth Bergeron	1851–1936	died here
Dominique-Ceslas Gonthier	1853–1917	died here
Claver Casavant	1855–1933	born and died here
Omer-Edmond Dalaire	1856–1919	died here
Élie Bourbeau	1864–1934	died here

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC121008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC091012 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q141873
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Hyacinthe
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Hyacinthe

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1871 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. Hyacinthe, City—Cité, Quebec (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-hyacinthe-city-cit-qc121008-1871/.