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

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

St. John City, Kings ward-quartier was a census subdivision in New Brunswick, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 2,762. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.275°N, 66.065°W.

Population

In 1891, St. John City, Kings ward-quartier had a population of 2,762: 1,317 male and 1,445 female residents. Population density was 16587.6 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	3,785
1881	3,070
1891	2,762
1901	2,364
1911	2,038

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, Kings ward-quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 125 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.20
FAM NO	534
Number of families	534
Number of females	1,445
Number of males	1,317
Number of married females	408
Number of married males	396
Number of married persons	804
Number of widowed females	153
Number of widowed males	50
Number of widowed persons	203
POP F	1,445
POP M	1,317
POP TOT	2,762
Total population	2,762

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	884
Number of single males under 18	871
Number of single persons under 18	1,755

Ethnic origin (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	2,762

Buildings & housing (17 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of dwellings that are vessels and shanties	1
Number of houses	377
Number of houses built of brick	70
Number of houses built of wood	307
Number of houses of 1 story	9
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	109
Number of houses of 2 rooms	5
Number of houses of 2 stories	199
Number of houses of 3 rooms	4
Number of houses of 3 stories	144
Number of houses of 4 rooms	16
Number of houses of 5 rooms	23
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	183
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	25
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	37
Number of occupied houses	378
Number of uninhabited houses	7

Agriculture (36 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	11
Acres of farmland in pasture	124
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	60
Acres of farmland under crops	161
Acres of hay crops	80
Acres of improved land in farms	296
Acres of land in farms	356
Acres of oats	24
Acres of potatoes	3
Acres of turnips	2
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	4
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	50
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	500
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	390
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	340
BWT BU	50
HAY AC	80
HAY TONS	114
Number of chickens	115
Number of ducks	10
Number of farm occupants who own their land	8
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	4
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	8
Number of horses aged over 3 years	69
Number of milk cows	22
Number of occupants of farms	12
Number of other cattle	4
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	7
OAT AC	24
OAT BU	500
POT AC	3
POT BU	390
Tons of hay produced in the past year	114

Other recorded variables (53 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	1
A 11 50	3
A 51 100	1
BEN BU	4
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	884
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	871
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	1,755
COLTS FILLIES	8
DUCKS	10
FAMILIES	534
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.20
FRN CA	0
HENS AND CHKN	115
HORSES OVR THREE	69
HOUSES	377
HOUSES B	70
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	109
HOUSES FIVE RM	23
HOUSES FOUR RM	16
HOUSES ONE STRY	9
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	25
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	183
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	37
HOUSES THREE RM	4
HOUSES THREE STRY	144
HOUSES TWO RM	5
HOUSES TWO STRY	199
HOUSES UNINH	7
HOUSES W	307
INF 11 A	7
MD FEM	408
MD MALE	396
MD TOT	804
MILK COWS	22
NAME CD	St. John, City—Cité
OC F	4
OC P	8
OC TOT	12
OTHER HRN CATTLE	4
OTHERS	2,762
SUP AM	296
SUP FOR	60
SUP JV	11
SUP PAT	124
SUP SC	161
SUP TOT	356
TOT DWLG OCC	378
TUR AC	2
TUR BU	340
VESS AND SHAN	1
WID FEM	153
WID MALE	50
WID TOT	203

Identifiers

TCP UID: NB020005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB032010 — 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, Kings ward-quartier, New Brunswick (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/st-john-city-kings-ward-quartier-nb020005-1891/.