St. Jacques, VL, Quebec (1881 census)

St. Jacques, VL was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,975. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q112912312. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.947°N, 73.543°W.

Population

In 1881, St. Jacques, VL had a population of 2,975: 1,449 male and 1,526 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).

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

• In a later year, this CSD contained St. Jacques, VL, 1891 (65.9% of this CSD's polygon).
• In a later year, this CSD contained Ste. Marie Salomée, 1891 (34.1% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, St. Jacques, VL shared boundaries with:

• L'Assomption
• L’Epiphanie
• St. Alexis, VL
• St. Esprit
• St. Liguori
• St. Paul
• St. Roch
• Ste. Julienne

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 32 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 2,975 total population, 1,526 females, 1,449 males, 924 married persons, 627 families, 464 married males, 460 married females, 125 widowed persons, 72 widowed females, 53 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,926 single persons under 18, 994 single females under 18, 932 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 517 inhabited houses, 517 occupied houses, 13 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 71,026 bushels of oats, 30,148 bushels of other root crops, 28,323 bushels of potatoes, 22,232 bushels of peas and beans, 13,031 bushels of corn, 6,761 bushels of buckwheat, 4,895 tons of hay, 4,599 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 4,596 bushels of spring wheat, 3,368 acres of hay crops, 1,057 bushels of barley, 618 bushels of turnips, 161 acres of potatoes, 144 bushels of rye, 54 bushels of winter wheat, 26 acres of wheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 4 people connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 2,976 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: QC089001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC073015_1921 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q112912312

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. Jacques, VL, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-jacques-vl-qc089001-1881/.