St. John, Albert Ward—Quartier, New Brunswick (1881 census)

Name: St. John, Albert Ward—Quartier (1881)
Address: New Brunswick, CA

St. John, Albert Ward—Quartier was a census subdivision in St. John (City—Ville) County, New Brunswick, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,294. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.260°N, 66.071°W.

Population

In 1881, St. John, Albert Ward—Quartier had a population of 1,294: 637 male and 657 female residents. Population density was 6642.4 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	1,219
1881	1,294
1891	1,269

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. John, Albert Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 62 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	251
Number of families	251
Number of females	657
Number of males	637
Number of married females	212
Number of married males	218
Number of married persons	430
Number of widowed females	45
Number of widowed males	17
Number of widowed persons	62
POP TOT	1,294
Total population	1,294

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	400
Number of single males under 18	402
Number of single persons under 18	802

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	1
Number of inhabited houses	199
Number of occupied houses	199
Number of uninhabited houses	2

Agriculture (8 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of wheat	1
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	100
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	10
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	20
OAT BU	100
POT BU	10
WHT AC	1
WHT SP BU	20

Fisheries (9 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year	1,250
Barrels of halibut produced in the past year	5
Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year	50
Barrels of salmon produced in the past year	60
Barrels of shad produced in the past year	55
Fathoms of fishing nets	1,800
Number of fishing boats	4
Number of men on fishing boats	6
Quintals of fascines fish produced in the past year	3

Other recorded variables (26 variables)

Variable	Value
BBL HERR OR ALE	50
BOAT MEN Q	6
BOATS FOR FISH	4
C UNMD F	400
C UNMD M	402
C UNMD TOT	802
CD NAME	St. John (City—Ville)
D OCC	199
FASCINE FISH Q	3
FEMALE	657
GSP XB Q	1,250
H CON	1
H INHAB	199
H UNINH	2
HAL XB Q	5
MALE	637
MD F	212
MD M	218
MD TOT	430
NET XX F	1,800
NUMBER CD	24
SHD XB Q	55
SLM XB Q	60
WID F	45
WID M	17
WID TOT	62

Identifiers

TCP UID: NB024008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB020001 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.

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. John, Albert Ward—Quartier, New Brunswick (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/st-john-albert-ward-quartier-nb024008-1881/.