Trois Rivières, C, Quebec (1871–1921)

Name: Trois Rivières, C
Address: Quebec, CA

Trois Rivières, C was a city in Quebec, recorded in 4 censuses between 1871 and 1921. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q44012, so it can be queried as a single entity even when its boundaries or census name varied across years. Population grew substantially across the period (from 844 in 1871 to 22,367 in 1921).

Historical lineage

Ancestor places

incorporates territory from Banlieue in 1871
incorporates territory from Trois-Rivières, St. Philippe, Ward—Quartier in 1911
incorporates territory from Trois-Rivières, Ste. Ursule Ward—Quartier in 1911
incorporates territory from Trois-Rivières, Notre-Dame, Ward—Quartier in 1911
incorporates territory from Trois-Rivières, St. Louis, Ward—Quartier in 1911

Descendant places

later split into Trois-Rivières (part) in 1891
later split into Trois-Rivières (part) in 1891

Population trajectory across census years

Census year	Population	Page
1871	844	View 1871 detail →
1881	626	View 1881 detail →
1911	13,691	View 1911 detail →
1921	22,367	View 1921 detail →

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

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 26 people connected to this place across the 1851–1921 period, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry; the connection tag indicates whether the documented event was a birth, death, or burial at this place.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Moses Hart	1768–1852	born and died here
François Normand	1779–1854	died here
Thomas Cooke	1792–1870	born and died here
Sévère-Joseph-Nicolas Dumoulin	1793–1853	died here
Bartholomew Conrad Augustus Gugy	1796–1876	born here
Dominique Mondelet	1799–1863	died here
Pierre-Benjamin Dumoulin	1799–1856	born and died here
William Henry Lee	1799–1878	born here
Antoine Polette	1807–1887	died here
Joseph-Édouard Turcotte	1808–1864	died here
Malcolm Cameron	1808–1876	born here
Adolphus Mordecai Hart	1814–1879	born here
Louis-François Laflèche	1818–1898	died here
Joseph-H. (Joseph-Hyacinthe) Bellerose	1820–1899	born here
Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville	1825–1869	born and died here
Sévère Dumoulin	1829–1910	born and died here
F.-X. (François-Xavier) Berlinguet	1830–1916	died here
Edouard-André Barnard	1835–1898	born here
Benjamin Sulte	1841–1923	born here
Hector Berthelot	1842–1895	born here
François-Xavier Cloutier	1848–1934	died here
Ernest Pacaud	1850–1904	born here
Nérée Beauchemin	1850–1931	died here
J.-A. (Joseph-Adolphe) Tessier	1861–1928	died here
Joseph Barnard	1872–1939	died here
Maurice le Noblet Duplessis	1890–1959	born here

Identifiers

Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC093015 — assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap
Wikidata: Q44012
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trois-Rivi%C3%A8res
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trois-Rivi%C3%A8res

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1851–1921 Census of Canada series, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project. Each year's detail page (linked above) cites the specific source table.