St. John City, Dukes ward-quartier, New Brunswick (1901 census)

Name: St. John City, Dukes ward-quartier (1901)
Address: New Brunswick, CA

St. John City, Dukes ward-quartier was a census subdivision in New Brunswick, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 3,048. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.270°N, 66.056°W.

Population

In 1901, St. John City, Dukes ward-quartier had a population of 3,048: 1,396 male and 1,652 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	4,253
1881	2,967
1891	3,055
1901	3,048
1911	2,879

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, St. John City, Dukes ward-quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1901

The 1901 census recorded 14 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1901). This community's record includes 3,048 total population, 1,652 females, 1,396 males, 971 single females, 836 single males, 660 families, 535 married females, 523 married males, 145 widowed females, 36 widowed males, 1 divorced females, 1 divorced males. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Buildings & housing (1901). This community's record includes 565 houses. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Agriculture (1901). This community's record includes 118 total area (acres). (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 26 people connected to this place who were alive in 1901, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
William Bayard	1814–1907	died here
James Bennet	1817–1901	died here
John Sweeny	1821–1901	died here
Thomas Rosenell Jones	1825–1901	died here
Frances Elizabeth Murray	1831–1901	died here
George Adkin Hartley	1831–1903	died here
William Henry Tuck	1831–1913	died here
John McMillan	1833–1905	died here
Alice Catharine Davis	1834–1915	died here
J. V. (John Valentine) Ellis	1835–1913	died here
John Hegan Parks	1836–1903	died here
James Hendricks McAvity	1838–1910	died here
Howard Douglas Troop	1839–1912	died here
James Hannay	1842–1910	died here
G. U. (George Upham) Hay	1843–1913	died here
Isaac Allen Jack	1843–1903	died here
Israël Landry	1843–1910	died here
Louisa Anne Donald	1844–1915	died here
Thomas Stockwell Simms	1845–1908	died here
Abraham Beverley Walker	1851–1909	died here
Emma Sophia Skinner	1852–1914	died here
George Valentine McInerney	1857–1908	died here
Loretta Leonard Shaw	1872–1940	born here
James Edmund Tighe	1878–1937	born here
James Leonard Sugrue	1883–1930	born here
Charles Gorman	1897–1940	born here

Identifiers

TCP UID: NB021002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB032007 — 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. John City, Dukes ward-quartier, New Brunswick (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/st-john-city-dukes-ward-quartier-nb021002-1901/.