St. Laurent, Quebec (1901 census)

St. Laurent was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 2,341. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.508°N, 73.697°W.

Population

In 1901, St. Laurent had a population of 2,341: 1,198 male and 1,143 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 St. Laurent, 1891 (85.6% share).

Later boundary forms

• In a later year, this CSD contained Youville, 1911 (13.4% of this CSD's polygon).
• In a later year, this CSD contained St. Laurent, 1911 (79.1% of this CSD's polygon).
• In a later year, this CSD contained Cartierville vl, 1911 (7.5% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, St. Laurent shared boundaries with:

• Ahuntsic
• Côte des Neiges
• Montreal, St. Denis, Ward—Quartier
• Notre-Dame de Grâces, West—Ouest, Village
• Outremont, Town—Ville
• Présentation de la Ste. Vierge
• Sault au Récollet
• St. Joachim de la Pointe Claire
• St. Joseph de Bordeaux
• St. Laurent, Village
• St. Louis, Town—Ville
• Ste. Geneviève
• Villeray

Full census record, 1901

The 1901 census recorded 12 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1901). This community's record includes 2,341 total population, 1,198 males, 1,143 females, 776 single males, 719 single females, 432 families, 385 married males, 376 married females, 48 widowed females, 37 widowed males. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Buildings & housing (1901). This community's record includes 405 houses. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Agriculture (1901). This community's record includes 15,062 total area (acres). (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC157017 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC157017 — 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 1901 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. Laurent, Quebec (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-laurent-qc157017-1901/.