St. Clément, Quebec (1881 census)

St. Clément was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,846. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q112912016. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.290°N, 73.887°W.

Population

In 1881, St. Clément had a population of 1,846: 927 male and 919 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, St. Clément shared boundaries with:

• Beauharnois, Town—Ville
• St. Etienne
• St. Joachim
• St. Louis de Gonzague
• St. Timothée, VL
• Ste. Martine

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 31 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,846 total population, 927 males, 919 females, 620 married persons, 338 families, 310 married females, 310 married males, 58 widowed persons, 33 widowed females, 25 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,168 single persons under 18, 592 single males under 18, 576 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 308 inhabited houses, 308 occupied houses, 17 uninhabited houses, 2 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 84,338 bushels of peas and beans, 54,669 bushels of oats, 43,421 bushels of potatoes, 15,680 bushels of barley, 6,954 bushels of spring wheat, 2,903 bushels of buckwheat, 1,996 acres of hay crops, 1,744 tons of hay, 1,012 bushels of corn, 607 acres of wheat, 438 bushels of other root crops, 283 acres of potatoes, 175 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 7 bushels of turnips. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,846 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC073003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC041002_1921 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q112912016

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1881 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. Clément, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-cl-ment-qc073003-1881/.