St. Léonard, Quebec (1871 census)

St. Léonard was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 747. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.082°N, 72.352°W.

Population

In 1871, St. Léonard had a population of 747: 379 male and 368 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.

Later boundary forms

• In a later year, this CSD became part of St. Léonard, 1881 (82.1% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, St. Léonard shared boundaries with:

• St. Célestin
• St. Wenseslas
• Ste. Clothilde
• Ste. Eulalie
• Ste. Monique
• Ste. Perpétue
• Wendover, Simpson

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 18 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 747 total population, 379 males, 368 females, 226 married persons, 116 married males, 110 married females, 109 families, 9 widowed persons, 7 widowed females, 2 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 512 single persons under 18, 261 single males under 18, 251 single females under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 105 inhabited houses, 105 occupied houses, 12 uninhabited houses, 5 houses under construction. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 18,560 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC135014 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC135014 — 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 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. Léonard, Quebec (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-l-onard-qc135014-1871/.