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

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

St. John City, Queens ward-quartier was a census subdivision in New Brunswick, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 3,698. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.273°N, 66.057°W.

Population

In 1891, St. John City, Queens ward-quartier had a population of 3,698: 1,639 male and 2,059 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	4,985
1881	3,432
1891	3,698
1901	3,571
1911	3,409

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, Queens ward-quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 126 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	713
Number of families	713
Number of females	2,059
Number of males	1,639
Number of married females	606
Number of married males	600
Number of married persons	1,206
Number of widowed females	183
Number of widowed males	54
Number of widowed persons	237
POP F	2,059
POP M	1,639
POP TOT	3,698
Total population	3,698

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	1,270
Number of single males under 18	985
Number of single persons under 18	2,255

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	4
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	3,694

Buildings & housing (18 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	639
Number of houses built of brick	269
Number of houses built of stone	11
Number of houses built of wood	359
Number of houses of 1 story	50
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	135
Number of houses of 2 rooms	16
Number of houses of 2 stories	360
Number of houses of 3 rooms	18
Number of houses of 3 stories	197
Number of houses of 4 rooms	35
Number of houses of 5 rooms	37
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	365
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	32
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	33
Number of houses under construction	4
Number of occupied houses	639
Number of uninhabited houses	4

Agriculture (35 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	13
Acres of farmland in pasture	83
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	183
Acres of farmland under crops	113
Acres of hay crops	127
Acres of improved land in farms	209
Acres of land in farms	392
Acres of potatoes	4
Acres of turnips	1
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	10
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	10
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	8
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	450
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	160
BWT BU	10
HAY AC	127
HAY TONS	188
Number of chickens	304
Number of ducks	2
Number of farm occupants who own their land	12
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	9
Number of horses aged over 3 years	174
Number of milk cows	26
Number of occupants of farms	12
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	5
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	4
Number of sheep	6
OAT BU	10
PEA BU	8
POT AC	4
POT BU	450
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	24
Pounds of homemade butter	150
Tons of hay produced in the past year	188

Other recorded variables (53 variables)

Variable	Value
A 11 50	5
A 51 100	3
BUTTER LB	150
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	1,270
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	985
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	2,255
COARSE WOOL LB	24
COLTS FILLIES	9
DUCKS	2
FAMILIES	713
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.20
FRN CA	4
HENS AND CHKN	304
HORSES OVR THREE	174
HOUSES	639
HOUSES B	269
HOUSES CON	4
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	135
HOUSES FIVE RM	37
HOUSES FOUR RM	35
HOUSES ONE STRY	50
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	32
HOUSES S	11
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	365
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	33
HOUSES THREE RM	18
HOUSES THREE STRY	197
HOUSES TWO RM	16
HOUSES TWO STRY	360
HOUSES UNINH	4
HOUSES W	359
INF 11 A	4
MD FEM	606
MD MALE	600
MD TOT	1,206
MILK COWS	26
NAME CD	St. John, City—Cité
OC P	12
OC TOT	12
OTHERS	3,694
SHEEP	6
SUP AM	209
SUP FOR	183
SUP JV	13
SUP PAT	83
SUP SC	113
SUP TOT	392
TOT DWLG OCC	639
TUR AC	1
TUR BU	160
WID FEM	183
WID MALE	54
WID TOT	237

Identifiers

TCP UID: NB020007 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB032014 — 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, Queens ward-quartier, New Brunswick (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/st-john-city-queens-ward-quartier-nb020007-1891/.