St. Jean, Town—Ville, Quebec (1911 census)

St. Jean, Town—Ville was a town in Quebec, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 5,903. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q141977. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.304°N, 73.262°W.

Population

In 1911, St. Jean, Town—Ville had a population of 5,903: 2,959 male and 2,944 female residents. Population density was 3595.0 people per square mile.

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 1911

In the 1911 census, St. Jean, Town—Ville shared boundaries with:

• St. Jean l'Evangéliste

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 44 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 5,903 total population, 3,595.01 population per square mile, 2,959 males in the population, 2,944 females in the population, 1,795 single (never-married) males, 1,734 single (never-married) females, 1,157 families, 1,051 area in acres, 1,051 married males, 1,019 married females, 178 widowed females, 80 widowed males, 31 males with marital status not given, 11 females with marital status not given, 1.64 area in square miles, 1 divorced females, 1 divorced males, 1 legally separated females, 1 legally separated males. 4,030 population in the previous census (1901 reference column included in 1911 V1T1). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Ethnic origin (1911). This community's record includes 5,016 persons of French origin, 525 persons of British origin (English), 164 persons of British origin (Irish), 60 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 22 persons of Italian origin, 14 persons of German origin, 14 persons of Polish origin, 9 persons of Chinese origin, 7 persons of Greek origin, 4 persons of British origin (other), 2 persons of Austro-Hungarian origin, 2 persons of Scandinavian origin. 31 persons recorded under the 1911 official census category "Jewish" (origin/ethnicity, distinct from the V2T2 religion category "Jews"). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

Religion (1911). This community's record includes 5,276 Roman Catholics, 341 Anglicans (Church of England), 135 Methodists, 44 Presbyterians, 36 Protestants (general / no denomination specified), 33 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified, 31 Jews, 29 adherents of various sects (residual category in 1911), 10 Baptists, 1 Mennonites. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2; V2T7.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 1,061 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

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 1911, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC196016 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC092009 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q141977
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1911 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. Jean, Town—Ville, Quebec (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-jean-town-ville-qc196016-1911/.