Beauregard was founded on 27 August 1766 by Baron Caneau de Beauregard as a Lutheran colony. There were some Roman Catholic colonists who settled there originally.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
67*
|
174
|
94
|
80
|
| 1769 |
60
|
196
|
105
|
91
|
| 1773 |
53
|
204
|
104
|
100
|
| 1788 |
37
|
168
|
92
|
76
|
| 1798 |
45
|
241
|
126
|
125
|
| 1816 |
49
|
365
|
183
|
182
|
| 1834 |
77
|
610
|
313
|
297
|
| 1850 |
106
|
869
|
432
|
437
|
| 1857 |
114
|
969
|
485
|
484
|
| 1859 |
116
|
848
|
446
|
402
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,369
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,608
|
825
|
783
|
| 1904 |
|
1,707
|
|
|
| 1907 |
|
2,071
|
|
|
| 1910 |
350
|
2,366
|
1,164
|
1,202
|
| 1912 |
|
2,484
|
|
|
| 1920 |
326**
|
2,217
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,306
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
261
|
1,363
|
673
|
690
|
| 1931 |
|
2,087
|
|
|
*An additional 85 households were included in the 1767 census of Beauregard who were destined to be settled in other colonies the following year.
**Of which 325 households were German.
***Of whom 1,359 (670 male & 689 female) were German living in 260 households.
Lutheran, there were some early Catholics.
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