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Year: 1851  |  Province: Quebec  |  Wikidata: Q340

Montréal, C, Quebec (1851 census)

Montréal, C was a city in Quebec, recorded in the 1851 Census of Canada with a population of 57,715. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q340. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.506°N, 73.565°W.

Population

In 1851, Montréal, C had a population of 57,715: 27,734 male and 29,981 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
185157,715
1921618,506

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

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.

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1851

In the 1851 census, Montréal, C shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1851

The 1851 census recorded 204 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1851). This community's record includes 57,715 total population, 29,981 females, 27,734 males, Female members of the family who are present: 24,745, Male members of the family who are present: 23,482, 20,367 single females, 18,547 single males, 9,990 families, 9,188 married females, 8,786 married males, Females present who are not members of the family: 5,236, 4,256 males attending school, Males present who are not members of the family: 4,252, 3,203 females attending school, 1,114 male births, 948 female births, Male members of the family who are present: 607, 426 widowed females, 401 widowed males, Female members of the family who are absent: 335, 56 lunatic males, 54 deaf and dumb males, 49 blind males, 34 lunatic females, 31 blind females, 31 deaf and dumb females, 7 persons at sea. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T3.)

Age structure (1851). This community's record includes 3,652 single females aged 15 to 20, 3,533 females aged 5 to 10, 3,429 married females aged 20 to 30, 3,307 males aged 5 to 10, 3,285 single males aged 10 to 15, 3,204 single females aged 10 to 15, 3,160 single females aged 20 to 30, 3,005 single males aged 15 to 20, 2,905 married males aged 30 to 40, 2,672 single males aged 20 to 30, 2,651 married females aged 30 to 40, 2,233 married males aged 20 to 30, 1,845 married males aged 40 to 50, 1,629 married females aged 40 to 50, 1,152 males under age 1, 1,140 females under age 1, 1,073 males aged 1 to 2, 1,046 married males aged 50 to 60, 1,021 females aged 1 to 2, 976 females aged 2 to 3, 963 single females aged 30 to 40, 898 males aged 2 to 3, 837 females age 3 to 4, 830 males aged 3 to 4, 828 married females aged 50 to 60, 778 single males aged 30 to 40, 727 males aged 4 to 5, 710 females aged 4 to 5, 522 married males aged 60 to 70, 469 single females aged 40 to 50, 388 single males aged 40 to 50, 319 married females aged 60 to 70, 299 single females aged 50 to 60, 223 married females aged 15 to 20, 178 females of unknown age, 158 single males aged 50 to 60, 143 single females aged 60 to 70, 138 married males aged 70 to 80, 110 males of unknown age, 106 single males aged 60 to 70, 99 widowed males aged 50 to 60, 98 widowed females aged 50 to 60, 97 married females aged 70 to 80, 96 widowed females aged 60 to 70, 89 widowed males aged 60 to 70, 67 widowed females aged 30 to 40, 66 widowed females aged 40 to 50, 66 widowed males aged 40 to 50, 63 widowed males aged 30 to 40, 61 married males aged 15 to 20, 57 single females aged 70 to 80, 49 widowed females aged 70 to 80, 46 widowed males aged 70 to 80, 44 single males aged 70 to 80, 35 married males aged 80 to 90, 28 widowed females aged 20 to 30, 26 widowed males aged 20 to 30, 20 widowed females aged 80 to 90, 18 single females aged 80 to 90, 12 married females aged 80 to 90, 10 single males aged 80 to 90, 10 widowed males aged 80 to 90, 2 widowed females aged 90 to 100, 2 widowed males aged 90 to 100, 1 married males aged 90 to 100. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.) The 1851 enumerator also recorded 2 single males aged 90 to 100, 6 single females aged 90 to 100, 2 single males over 100, 1 single females over 100 — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Ethnic origin (1851). This community's record includes 24,506 French Canadians, 6,985 persons native to Canada, not of French origin, 6,344 persons originating in Ireland, 1,819 persons whose origin is unknown, 1,280 persons originating in England or Wales, 648 persons originating in Scotland, 120 persons originating in the United States, 75 persons originating in Nova Scotia or Prince Edward Island, 53 persons originating in all other places, 43 persons originating in France, 36 persons originating in Germany or Holland, 30 persons originating in New Brunswick, 26 persons originating in the West Indies, 15 persons originating in Newfoundland, 7 persons originating in Spain or Portugal, 6 persons originating in Italy or Greece, 5 persons originating in Sweden or Norway, 1 persons originating in Switzerland. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1851 enumerator also recorded 18 persons originating in Guernsey, 28 persons originating in Jersey or other British islands — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Manufacturing & industry (1851). This community's record includes $2,700 value iron produced in foundries in the past year (pounds sterling), 130 employees in tanneries, 33 employees in foundries, 33 tanneries, 26 tanneries reporting, 8 employees in grist mills, 7 tanneries not reporting, 3 foundries, 2 breweries, 2 breweries not reporting, 2 foundries reporting, 1 foundries not reporting, 1 grist mills not reporting, 1 grist mills reporting annual production,   feet of lumber produced daily by saw mills reporting daily production,   gallons of beer produced in breweries,   breweries reporting,   breweries returning capital,   carding and fulling mills,   carding and fulling mills reporting,   carding and fulling mills returning capital,   employees in breweries,   employees in saw mills,   foundries returning capital,   grist mills,   grist mills powered by steam,   grist mills powered by water,   grist mills reporting daily production,   grist mills reporting value of annual production or rent,   grist mills reporting weekly production,   grist mills returning capital,   saw mill plants,   saw mills,   saw mills not reporting,   saw mills powered by steam,   saw mills powered by water,   saw mills reporting annual production,   saw mills reporting daily production,   saw mills reporting value of annual production or rent,   saw mills returning capital,   tanneries returning capital,   pounds of wool produced in carding and fulling mills, $  value annual production or rent from grist mills (pounds sterling), $  value annual production or rent from saw mills (pounds sterling), $  value capital returned by grist mills (pounds sterling), $  value capital returned by saw mills (pounds sterling). $57,480 value leather produced in tanneries in the past year (pounds sterling).   barrels of flour produced per day by grist mills reporting daily production.   barrels of flour produced per week by grist mills reporting weekly production.   barrels of flour produced per year by grist mills reporting annual production.   feet of lumber produced per year by saw mills reporting annual production. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

Deaths & mortality (1851). This community's record includes 1,725 total number of deaths, Deaths in the past year among males of all ages: 905, Deaths in the past year among females of all ages: 820, Deaths in the past year among males under age 1: 240, Deaths in the past year among females under age 1: 220, Deaths in the past year among females aged 1 to 2: 90, Deaths in the past year among males aged 1 to 2: 89, Deaths in the past year among males aged 4 to 5: 69, Deaths in the past year among males aged 2 to 3: 61, Deaths in the past year among females aged 4 to 5: 60, Deaths in the past year among males of unknown age: 54, Deaths in the past year among females aged 10 to 15: 52, Deaths in the past year among females aged 2 to 3: 52, Deaths in the past year among females of unknown age: 49, Deaths in the past year among males age 3 to 4: 48, Deaths in the past year among males aged 20 to 30: 46, Deaths in the past year among males aged 5 to 10: 46, Deaths in the past year among females aged 20 to 30: 42, Deaths in the past year among females aged 5 to 10: 41, Deaths in the past year among males aged 10 to 15: 40, Deaths in the past year among females aged 3 to 4: 37, Deaths in the past year among males aged 30 to 40: 36, Deaths in the past year among males aged 50 to 60: 36, Deaths in the past year among males aged 40 to 50: 35, Deaths in the past year among females aged 15 to 20: 33, Deaths in the past year among males aged 15 to 20: 33, Deaths in the past year among females aged 30 to 40: 30, Deaths in the past year among females aged 60 to 70: 30, Deaths in the past year among males aged 60 to 70: 28, Deaths in the past year among males aged 70 to 80: 27, Deaths in the past year among females aged 50 to 60: 26, Deaths in the past year among females aged 70 to 80: 25, Deaths in the past year among females aged 40 to 50: 24, Deaths in the past year among males aged 80 to 90: 9, Deaths in the past year among females aged 80 to 90: 8, Deaths in the past year among females aged 90 to 100: 1. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.) The 1851 enumerator also recorded Deaths in the past year among males aged 90 to 100: 2 — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 290 people connected to this place who were alive in 1851, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

NameLifespanConnection
Dominique Ducharme1765–1853born here
Samuel Gerrard1767–1857died here
Joseph Roy1771–1856died here
Denis-Benjamin Viger1774–1861born and died here
Étienne Mayrand1776–1872born here
Benjamin Hart1779–1855born here
Robert Armour1781–1857died here
Michel Bibaud1782–1857born and died here
Paul Morand1782–1854died here
G. (George) Vanfelson1784–1856died here
Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel1785–1866born and died here
Jacob De Witt1785–1859died here
Louis-Michel Viger1785–1855born here
André Jobin1786–1853born here
Gabriel Franchère1786–1863born here
James Leslie1786–1873died here
John Torrance1786–1870died here
Louis-Joseph Papineau1786–1871born here
Antoine Manseau1787–1866died here
Casimir-Amable Testard de Montigny1787–1863born here
George Moffatt1787–1865died here
Jacques Viger1787–1858born and died here
John Molson Jr.1787–1860born and died here
John Frothingham1788–1870died here
Richard Dease1788–1863died here
Denis-Benjamin Papineau1789–1854born here
Jean Baptiste Réné Hertel de Rouville1789–1859born here
Peter McGill1789–1860died here
Thomas Molson1791–1863born here
Wolfred Nelson1791–1863born and died here
John Macaulay1792–1857died here
William Molson1793–1875born and died here
Benjamin Holmes1794–1865died here
Marie-Rosalie Cadron1794–1864died here
Adolphus Bourne1795–1886died here
Jean-Baptiste Meilleur1796–1878born and died here
Jean-Claude-Léonard Baveux1796–1865died here
John Redpath1796–1869died here
Thomas Brown Anderson1796–1873died here
William Lunn1796–1886died here
A. F. (Andrew Fernando) Holmes1797–1860died here
Charles Séraphin Rodier1797–1876born and died here
Antoine-Olivier Berthelet1798–1872born and died here
Côme-Séraphin Cherrier1798–1885died here
William Edmond Logan1798–1875born here
Édouard-Raymond Fabre1799–1854born and died here
François-Pierre Bruneau1799–1851born here
Ignace Bourget1799–1885died here
Ludger Duvernay1799–1852died here
Émilie Tavernier1800–1851born and died here
HBC fur trader George Barnston1800–1883died here
James Ferrier1800–1888died here
Louis Marchand1800–1881died here
William Dow1800–1868died here
Frederick Widder1801–1865died here
William Badgley1801–1888born and died here
Augustin de Lisle1802–1865born here
Jos Montferrand1802–1864born and died here
Francis Fulford1803–1868died here
James Little1803–1883died here
Thomas Storrow Brown1803–1888died here
Thomas Ryan1804–1889died here
David Torrance1805–1876died here
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland1805–1865born here
Marcelle Mallet1805–1871born here
W.T. (William Turnbull) Leach1805–1886died here
Frederick Preston Rubidge1806–1897died here
James Duncan1806–1881died here
James Smith1806–1868born and died here
Thomas Cushing Aylwin1806–1871died here
Louis Perrault1807–1866born and died here
Patrice Lacombe1807–1863died here
Sir Francis Hincks1807–1885died here
Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine1807–1864died here
William Workman1807–1878died here
Alexis-Frédéric Truteau1808–1872born and died here
Charles de Cazes1808–1867died here
Charles Wilson1808–1877died here
Edwin Atwater1808–1874died here
George Paschal Desbarats1808–1864died here
John Dougall1808–1886died here
Charles Chiniquy1809–1899died here
Jean-Louis Beaudry1809–1886died here
Victor Bourgeau1809–1888died here
Alexandre-Maurice Delisle1810–1880born and died here
Georges-René Saveuse de Beaujeu1810–1865born here
John Lovell1810–1893died here
George Browne1811–1885died here
John Young1811–1878died here
Napoléon Aubin1812–1890died here
John Ostell1813–1892died here
Lewis T. (Lewis Thomas) Drummond1813–1882died here
Thomas Workman1813–1889died here
Félix Poutré1814–1885died here
Jacob Henry Joseph1814–1907died here
Jean-Chrysostome Brauneis1814–1871died here
Louis Archambeault1814–1890born here
Robert Hendery1814–1897died here
Adolphe Pinsonnault1815–1883died here
George Edward Clerk1815–1875died here
Jean-Baptiste Rolland1815–1888died here
Arthur Rankin1816–1893born here
Charles Alexander1816–1905died here
Charles Heavysege1816–1876died here
Charles-André Leblanc1816–1877born and died here
Henry Starnes1816–1896died here
J.-G. (Joseph-Guillaume) Barthe1816–1893died here
J.U. (Joseph Ubald) Baudry1816–1876born and died here
Joséphine-Éléonore d'Estimauville1816–1893died here
Theodore Hart1816–1887born here
A.T. (Alexander Tilloch) Galt1817–1893died here
Asa Belknap Foster1817–1877died here
Donald Alexander MacDonald1817–1896died here
Charles-Séraphin Rodier Jr1818–1890born and died here
Jacques-Félix Sincennes1818–1876died here
Sir Antoine-Aimé Dorion1818–1891died here
Henry Morgan1819–1893died here
Philip P. (Philip Pearsall) Carpenter1819–1877died here
E. (Elkanah) Billings1820–1876died here
Edward Goff Penny1820–1881died here
John William Dawson1820–1899died here
Stanley Clark Bagg1820–1873born here
William Sawyer1820–1889born here
Burrows Willcocks Arthur Sleigh1821–1869born here
George Armstrong1821–1888died here
Maurice Laframboise1821–1882born and died here
Rouër Roy1821–1905born and died here
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott1821–1893died here
Andrew Allan1822–1901died here
Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville1822–1915born and died here
Frank Wills1822–1857died here
Joseph Lenoir1822–1861born and died here
Matthew Hamilton Gault1822–1887died here
Henry James Friel1823–1869born here
Jacques Grenier1823–1909died here
Louis-Léon Lesieur-Désaulniers1823–1896died here
Maximilien Bibaud1823–1887born and died here
R.P. (Robert Palmer) Howard1823–1889born and died here
V. (Victor) Rousselot1823–1889died here
Ferdinand David1824–1883died here
Louis Labrèche-Viger1824–1872died here
Peter Mitchell1824–1899died here
Charles Daoust1825–1868died here
J.B. (Jean-Baptiste) Labelle1825–1898died here
Joseph Doutre1825–1886died here
Godf. (Godefroi) Laviolette1826–1895died here
Kate Horn1826–1896died here
Masson1826–1875born and died here
William Notman1826–1891died here
Andrew Robertson1827–1890died here
Charles Laberge1827–1874born and died here
Édouard-Charles Fabre1827–1896born and died here
F. (Francis) Cassidy1827–1873died here
John Hamilton1827–1888died here
Louisa Goddard Frothingham Molson1827–1910born here
Napoléon Bourassa1827–1916died here
Toussaint-Antoine-Rodolphe Laflamme1827–1893born and died here
Hospice-Anthelme-Jean-Baptiste Verreau1828–1901died here
Jonathan Saxton Campbell Würtele1828–1904died here
Alexander Walker Ogilvie1829–1902died here
Louis-Adélard Senécal1829–1887died here
Sir George Alexander Drummond1829–1910died here
William H. (William Hales) Hingston1829–1907died here
Charlotte Selina Cox1830–1917died here
David Allan Poe Watt1830–1917died here
Sir Joseph Hickson1830–1897died here
Thomas White1830–1888born here
Alexander Henderson1831–1913died here
Anna Harriette Edwards1831–1915died here
James Barnston1831–1858died here
Robert Wilson Reford, Sr.1831–1913died here
Sir William Christopher MacDonald1831–1917died here
G. P. (Gilbert Prout) Girdwood1832–1917died here
George Washington Stephens1832–1904died here
Louis-François-Georges Baby1832–1906born and died here
Andrew Frederick Gault1833–1903died here
Antoine Labelle1833–1891died here
Eusèbe Senécal1833–1902died here
James McShane1833–1918born and died here
Louis-Rodrigue Masson1833–1903died here
Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Harrison1833–1878born here
Robertson Macaulay1833–1915died here
William Raphael1833–1914died here
A. (Auguste) Achintre1834–1886died here
Charles Fleetford Sise1834–1918died here
Duncan McIntyre1834–1894died here
Hector Fabre1834–1910born here
Sévère Rivard1834–1888died here
Thomas-Aimé Chandonnet1834–1881died here
Urgel-Eugène Archambeault1834–1904died here
John Lesperance1835–1891died here
Robert Campbell1835–1921died here
Ronald MacDonald1835–1912died here
William Watson Ogilvie1835–1900born and died here
John Clark Murray1836–1917died here
Joseph-Octave Villeneuve1836–1901died here
Joseph-Xavier Perrault1836–1905died here
Levi Ruggles Church1836–1892died here
John James Browne1837–1893died here
John Reade1837–1919died here
Joseph Royal1837–1902died here
Louis Beaubien1837–1915born here
Louis-Edouard Desjardins1837–1919died here
Alfred Sandham1838–1910born here
F.-X.-A. (François-Xavier-Anselme) Trudel1838–1890died here
Frédéric Janssoone1838–1916died here
John Kennedy1838–1921died here
Joseph Alfred Mousseau1838–1886died here
Lanctot1838–1877born here
M. (Michel) Mathieu1838–1916died here
F. (Frantz) Jehin-Prume1839–1899died here
Louis Fréchette1839–1908died here
Henry Birks1840–1928born and died here
Honoré Mercier1840–1894died here
James Kirby1840–1914born here
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau1840–1898died here
Louis-Olivier Taillon1840–1923died here
Sir William Ralph Meredith1840–1923died here
Charles Chaput1841–1926died here
Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid1841–1926died here
James Crocket Wilson1841–1899died here
Napoléon Legendre1841–1907died here
William George Beers1841–1900born and died here
Alexander Francis Dunlop1842–1923born and died here
Charles-Chamilly de Lorimier1842–1919died here
Gonzalve Doutre1842–1880born and died here
Hector Berthelot1842–1895died here
Henry Sandham1842–1910born here
Sir Alexandre Lacoste1842–1923died here
Adolphe Caron1843–1908died here
Charles-Théodore Viau1843–1898died here
Elzéar Gérin1843–1887died here
Narcisse-Amable Troie1843–1919died here
Romain-Octave Pelletier1843–1927born and died here
William Southam1843–1932born here
Arthur Dansereau1844–1918died here
David Ross McCord1844–1930born here
Joseph-Nazaire Dupuis1844–1876died here
Margaret Smith Polson1844–1927died here
Arthur Turcotte1845–1905born and died here
Charles-Marie Panneton1845–1890born and died here
Charlotte Smithers1845–1934died here
E.-P. (Emmanuel-Persillier) Lachapelle1845–1918born and died here
Ephraim Scott1845–1931died here
saint André Bessette1845–1937died here
William James Topley1845–1930born here
Zotique Racicot1845–1915born here
Charles Lecoq1846–1926died here
George Stephens Warren1846–1928died here
Hayter Reed1846–1936died here
Thomas George Roddick1846–1923died here
A. D. (Alexander Dougall) Blackader1847–1932born and died here
Charles Alfred Riordon1847–1931died here
David Murdoch McPherson1847–1915died here
Emma Lajeunesse1847–1930died here
George Henry Ham1847–1926died here
J. A. (Joseph Aldéric) Ouimet1847–1916died here
B.J. (Bernard James) Harrington1848–1907died here
Edmond Lareau1848–1890died here
George Gibbons1848–1918died here
Honoré Beaugrand1848–1906died here
Hugh Graham1848–1938died here
James Ross1848–1913died here
Joseph Tassé1848–1895died here
Stanislas-Alphonse Roberge1848–1924died here
Tarte1848–1907died here
Bellelle Guerin1849–1929born and died here
Edward Clouston1849–1912died here
Phelps Johnson1849–1926died here
R. E. (Rupert Etherege) Kingsford1849–1920born here
Robert Harris1849–1919died here
Thomas Joseph Workman Burgess1849–1926died here
Émilie Lavergne1849–1930died here
Cléophas Fabien1850–1925died here
Edward Black Greenshields1850–1917died here
Sir Henry Vincent Meredith1850–1929died here
Sir Hormisdas Laporte1850–1934died here
Sydney Fisher1850–1921born here
Zéphirin Benoit1850–1930died here
Aristide Filiatreault1851–1913died here
Ernest Lavigne1851–1909born and died here
François-Xavier Choquet1851–1926died here
Guillaume Couture1851–1915born and died here
Guillaume-Narcisse Ducharme1851–1929died here
Narcisse Pérodeau1851–1932died here
Solomon Levinson1851–1931died here
Auguste-Réal Angersd. 1919died here
Benjamin Alexander Scottd. 1928died here
Charles McKiernand. 1889died here
Joseph Guibordd. 1869died here

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1851 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). "Montréal, C, Quebec (1851 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/montr-al-c-qc085000-1851/.