St. John, Guy’s, Ward—Quartier, New Brunswick (1881 census)

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

St. John, Guy’s, 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 1,978. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.262°N, 66.075°W.

Population

In 1881, St. John, Guy’s, Ward—Quartier had a population of 1,978: 987 male and 991 female residents. Population density was 10635.7 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	1,982
1881	1,978
1891	1,838

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, Guy’s, Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 66 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	428
Number of families	428
Number of females	991
Number of males	987
Number of married females	347
Number of married males	351
Number of married persons	698
Number of widowed females	71
Number of widowed males	9
Number of widowed persons	80
POP TOT	1,978
Total population	1,978

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	573
Number of single males under 18	627
Number of single persons under 18	1,200

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	7
Number of inhabited houses	277
Number of occupied houses	277
Number of uninhabited houses	22

Agriculture (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	4
HAY AC	4
HAY TONS	7
Tons of hay produced in the past year	7

Fisheries (13 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of eels produced in the past year	55
Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year	3,360
Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year	13,865
Barrels of salmon produced in the past year	119
Barrels of shad produced in the past year	171
Fathoms of fishing nets	11,430
Number of fishing boats	54
Number of fishing vessels	5
Number of men on fishing boats	88
Number of men on fishing vessels	16
Number of shoremen	4
Quintals of cod produced in the past year	50
Quintals of fascines fish produced in the past year	12

Other recorded variables (30 variables)

Variable	Value
BBL HERR OR ALE	13,865
BOAT MEN Q	88
BOATS FOR FISH	54
C UNMD F	573
C UNMD M	627
C UNMD TOT	1,200
CD NAME	St. John (City—Ville)
COD DX K	50
D OCC	277
EEL XB Q	55
FASCINE FISH Q	12
FEMALE	991
GSP XB Q	3,360
H CON	7
H INHAB	277
H UNINH	22
MALE	987
MD F	347
MD M	351
MD TOT	698
NET XX F	11,430
NUMBER CD	24
SHD XB Q	171
SHOREMEN XX Q	4
SLM XB Q	119
VESSEL MEN Q	16
VESSEL XX Q	5
WID F	71
WID M	9
WID TOT	80

Identifiers

TCP UID: NB024009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB020004 — 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, Guy’s, Ward—Quartier, New Brunswick (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/st-john-guy-s-ward-quartier-nb024009-1881/.