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

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

St. John, Dukis, Ward—Quartier was a township in St. John (City—Ville) County, New Brunswick (Canada West / Ontario), recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,967. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.270°N, 66.056°W.

Population

In 1881, St. John, Dukis, Ward—Quartier had a population of 2,967: 1,388 male and 1,579 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	4,253
1881	2,967
1891	3,055
1901	3,048

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, Dukis, Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 68 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	608
Number of families	608
Number of females	1,579
Number of males	1,388
Number of married females	493
Number of married males	496
Number of married persons	989
Number of widowed females	137
Number of widowed males	42
Number of widowed persons	179
POP TOT	2,967
Total population	2,967

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	949
Number of single males under 18	850
Number of single persons under 18	1,799

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	2
Number of inhabited houses	397
Number of occupied houses	397
Number of uninhabited houses	25

Agriculture (12 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	51
Acres of potatoes	3
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	100
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	5
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	150
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	20
HAY AC	51
HAY TONS	105
OAT BU	100
POT AC	3
POT BU	150
Tons of hay produced in the past year	105

Fisheries (9 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year	88
Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year	30
Barrels of salmon produced in the past year	5
Barrels of shad produced in the past year	23
Fathoms of fishing nets	758
Number of fishing boats	3
Number of men on fishing boats	3
Quintals of cod produced in the past year	5
Quintals of fascines fish produced in the past year	1

Other recorded variables (28 variables)

Variable	Value
BBL HERR OR ALE	30
BOAT MEN Q	3
BOATS FOR FISH	3
C UNMD F	949
C UNMD M	850
C UNMD TOT	1,799
CD NAME	St. John (City—Ville)
COD DX K	5
D OCC	397
FASCINE FISH Q	1
FEMALE	1,579
GSP XB Q	88
H CON	2
H INHAB	397
H UNINH	25
MALE	1,388
MD F	493
MD M	496
MD TOT	989
NET XX F	758
NUMBER CD	24
OTHR ROOT BU	5
SHD XB Q	23
SLM XB Q	5
TUR BU	20
WID F	137
WID M	42
WID TOT	179

Identifiers

TCP UID: NB024005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB021002 — 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, Dukis, Ward—Quartier, New Brunswick (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/st-john-dukis-ward-quartier-nb024005-1881/.