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Year: 1881  |  Province: British Columbia

Victoria, Johnson Street, Ward—Quartier, British Columbia (1881 census)

Victoria, Johnson Street, Ward—Quartier was a census subdivision in British Columbia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,665. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.437°N, 123.360°W.

Population

In 1881, Victoria, Johnson Street, Ward—Quartier had a population of 2,665: 1,586 male and 1,079 female residents. Population density was 636.8 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18812,665
18918,707

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.

Earlier boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Victoria, Johnson Street, Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 53 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)
VariableValue
FAM NO787
Number of families787
Number of females1,079
Number of males1,586
Number of married females398
Number of married males598
Number of married persons996
Number of widowed females56
Number of widowed males32
Number of widowed persons88
POP TOT2,665
Total population2,665
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18625
Number of single males under 18956
Number of single persons under 181,581
Buildings & housing (6 variables)
VariableValue
Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties1
Number of dwellings that are temporary vessels4
Number of houses under construction6
Number of inhabited houses772
Number of occupied houses777
Number of uninhabited houses204
Agriculture (12 variables)
VariableValue
Acres of hay crops55
Acres of potatoes107
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year4,838
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year151
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year12,936
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year1,590
HAY AC55
HAY TONS95
PEA AND BEN BU151
POT AC107
POT BU12,936
Tons of hay produced in the past year95
Other recorded variables (20 variables)
VariableValue
C UNMD F625
C UNMD M956
C UNMD TOT1,581
D OCC777
FEMALE1,079
H CON6
H INHAB772
H UNINH204
MALE1,586
MD F398
MD M598
MD TOT996
NUMBER CD191
OTHR ROOT BU4,838
SHAN1
TUR BU1,590
VESS4
WID F56
WID M32
WID TOT88

Identifiers

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). "Victoria, Johnson Street, Ward—Quartier, British Columbia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/bc/victoria-johnson-street-ward-quartier-bc191002-1881/.