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Year: 1871  |  Province: Quebec  |  Wikidata: Q63244704

Westbury, Quebec (1871 census)

Westbury was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 363. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q63244704. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.480°N, 71.656°W.

Population

In 1871, Westbury had a population of 363: 191 male and 172 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1851115
1861297
1871363
1881510
1891973
19011,976
19112,708
1921662

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, Westbury shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 18 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 363 total population, 191 males, 172 females, 128 married persons, 66 families, 64 married females, 64 married males, 8 widowed persons, 6 widowed females, 2 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 227 single persons under 18, 125 single males under 18, 102 single females under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 65 inhabited houses, 65 occupied houses, 6 uninhabited houses, 5 houses under construction. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 17,200 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 31 people connected to this place who were alive in 1871, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

NameLifespanConnection
Timothy Hibbard Dunn1816–1898born here
Léon Provancher1820–1892born here
Louis-Léon Lesieur-Désaulniers1823–1896born here
Mary Electa Adams1823–1898born here
Télesphore Fournier1823–1896born here
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau1824–1901born here
J. R. (John Rudolphus) Booth1827–1925born here
Édouard Caron1830–1900born here
Ernest Gagnon1834–1915born here
Edwige Buisson1837–1902born here
Adolphe Rho1839–1905born here
Benjamin Sulte1841–1923born here
Napoléon Legendre1841–1907born here
Robert Atkinson Davis1841–1903born here
Frederick Smith Stimson1842–1912born here
Gustave Gagnon1842–1930born here
Clementina Trenholme1843–1918born here
Pierre-Léon Ayotte1845–1907born here
Urbain Lafontaine1845–1913born here
Augustin Desrosiers1847–1927born here
François-Xavier Cloutier1848–1934born here
Elliott Torrance Galt1850–1928born here
Elson Irving Rexford1851–1936born here
Ernest Marceau1852–1919born here
Francis McCrea1852–1926born here
Henry Thomas Duffy1852–1903born here
Eugène Lefebvre1854–1914born here
Jacques Bureau1860–1933born here
Wyatt Galt Johnston1862–1902born here
Gonzalve Desaulniers1863–1934born here
Frederick Oscar Warren Loomis1870–1937born here

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1871 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). "Westbury, Quebec (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/westbury-qc142007-1871/.