Verchères, Quebec (1921 census)

Verchères was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1921 Census of Canada with a population of 946. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q2514459. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.744°N, 73.326°W.

Population

In 1921, Verchères had a population of 946: 488 male and 458 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 Verchères, 1911 (94.4% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1921

In the 1921 census, Verchères shared boundaries with:

• Contrecoeur
• St. Marc
• Ste. Julie
• Ste. Théodosie
• Varennes
• Verchères, VL

Full census record, 1921

The 1921 census recorded 16 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1921). This community's record includes 946 total population, 488 males in the population, 482 males born in Canada, 458 females in the population, 453 females born in Canada, 5 males born in the British Empire (excluding Canada), 3 females born in the British Empire (excluding Canada), 2 females born outside the British Empire, 1 males born outside the British Empire. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T16.)

Ethnic origin (1921). This community's record includes 931 persons of French origin, 12 persons of British origin (English), 3 persons of British origin (Irish). (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T27.)

Religion (1921). This community's record includes 934 Roman Catholics, 6 Protestants (general / no denomination specified), 4 Presbyterians, 2 Baptists. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T38.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC098008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC098008 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q2514459
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verch%C3%A8res
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verch%C3%A8res

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). "Verchères, Quebec (1921 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/verch-res-qc098008-1921/.