St. John City, Dufferin ward-quartier, New Brunswick (1891 census)

Name: St. John City, Dufferin ward-quartier (1891)
Address: New Brunswick, CA

St. John City, Dufferin ward-quartier was a census subdivision in New Brunswick, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 3,964. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.282°N, 66.070°W.

Population

In 1891, St. John City, Dufferin ward-quartier had a population of 3,964: 1,922 male and 2,042 female residents. Population density was 8251.3 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	4,048
1891	3,964
1901	4,100
1911	4,022

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, St. John City, Dufferin ward-quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 132 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5
FAM NO	797
Number of families	797
Number of females	2,041
Number of males	1,922
Number of married females	659
Number of married males	653
Number of married persons	1,312
Number of widowed females	173
Number of widowed males	55
Number of widowed persons	228
POP F	2,042
POP M	1,922
POP TOT	3,964
Total population	3,964

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	1,210
Number of single males under 18	1,214
Number of single persons under 18	2,424

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	12
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	3,952

Buildings & housing (17 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	583
Number of houses built of brick	30
Number of houses built of stone	1
Number of houses built of wood	552
Number of houses of 1 story	28
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	73
Number of houses of 2 rooms	23
Number of houses of 2 stories	342
Number of houses of 3 rooms	66
Number of houses of 3 stories	203
Number of houses of 4 rooms	82
Number of houses of 5 rooms	90
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	207
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	10
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	42
Number of occupied houses	583
Number of uninhabited houses	5

Agriculture (39 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in pasture	59
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	736
Acres of farmland under crops	103
Acres of hay crops	150
Acres of improved land in farms	162
Acres of land in farms	898
Acres of oats	15
Acres of potatoes	5
Acres of turnips	1
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	2
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	90
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	188
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	230
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	5
BWT BU	90
HAY AC	150
HAY TONS	240
Number of chickens	694
Number of ducks	4
Number of farm occupants who own their land	4
Number of geese	8
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	4
Number of horses aged over 3 years	78
Number of milk cows	39
Number of occupants of farms	4
Number of other cattle	7
Number of other fowl	1
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	1
Number of sheep	14
Number of turkeys	3
OAT AC	15
OAT BU	188
POT AC	5
POT BU	230
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	24
Tons of hay produced in the past year	240

Other recorded variables (56 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	1
A 201 PL	1
A 51 100	1
BEN BU	2
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	1,210
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	1,214
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	2,424
COARSE WOOL LB	24
COLTS FILLIES	4
DUCKS	4
FAMILIES	797
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5
FRN CA	12
GEESE	8
HENS AND CHKN	694
HORSES OVR THREE	78
HOUSES	583
HOUSES B	30
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	73
HOUSES FIVE RM	90
HOUSES FOUR RM	82
HOUSES ONE STRY	28
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	10
HOUSES S	1
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	207
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	42
HOUSES THREE RM	66
HOUSES THREE STRY	203
HOUSES TWO RM	23
HOUSES TWO STRY	342
HOUSES UNINH	5
HOUSES W	552
INF 11 A	1
MD FEM	659
MD MALE	653
MD TOT	1,312
MILK COWS	39
NAME CD	St. John, County—Comté
OC P	4
OC TOT	4
OTHER FOWL	1
OTHER HRN CATTLE	7
OTHERS	3,952
SHEEP	14
SUP AM	162
SUP FOR	736
SUP PAT	59
SUP SC	103
SUP TOT	898
TOT DWLG OCC	583
TUR AC	1
TUR BU	5
TURKEY	3
WID FEM	173
WID MALE	55
WID TOT	228

Identifiers

TCP UID: NB021001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB032008 — 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 1891 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 City, Dufferin ward-quartier, New Brunswick (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/st-john-city-dufferin-ward-quartier-nb021001-1891/.