St. John, Prince, Ward—Quartier, New Brunswick (1891 census)

Name: St. John, Prince, Ward—Quartier (1891)
Address: New Brunswick, CA

St. John, Prince, Ward—Quartier was a census subdivision in New Brunswick, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 4,348. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.279°N, 66.051°W.

Population

In 1891, St. John, Prince, Ward—Quartier had a population of 4,348: 2,062 male and 2,286 female residents. Population density was 16782.6 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	4,976
1881	5,132
1891	4,348
1901	4,760
1911	4,850

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, Prince, Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 148 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.70
FAM NO	929
Number of families	929
Number of females	2,286
Number of males	2,062
Number of married females	706
Number of married males	719
Number of married persons	1,425
Number of widowed females	204
Number of widowed males	67
Number of widowed persons	271
POP F	2,286
POP M	2,062
POP TOT	4,348
Total population	4,348

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	1,376
Number of single males under 18	1,276
Number of single persons under 18	2,652

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	11
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	4,337

Buildings & housing (17 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	626
Number of houses built of brick	31
Number of houses built of wood	595
Number of houses of 1 story	36
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	126
Number of houses of 2 rooms	10
Number of houses of 2 stories	445
Number of houses of 3 rooms	32
Number of houses of 3 stories	129
Number of houses of 4 rooms	54
Number of houses of 5 rooms	50
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	308
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	16
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	46
Number of houses under construction	2
Number of occupied houses	626
Number of uninhabited houses	14

Agriculture (49 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	1
Acres of farmland in pasture	140
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	540
Acres of farmland under crops	226
Acres of hay crops	230
Acres of improved land in farms	367
Acres of land in farms	907
Acres of oats	22
Acres of potatoes	4
Acres of turnips	1
Acres of wheat	1
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	250
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	532
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	340
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	14
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	90
BWT BU	250
HAY AC	230
HAY TONS	275
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	1
Number of chickens	884
Number of ducks	26
Number of farm occupants who own their land	8
Number of geese	20
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	9
Number of horses aged over 3 years	192
Number of milk cows	37
Number of occupants of farms	8
Number of other cattle	1
Number of other fowl	35
Number of oxen	5
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	2
Number of sheep	13
Number of swine	43
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	12
Number of turkeys	2
OAT AC	22
OAT BU	532
POT AC	4
POT BU	340
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	52
Pounds of homemade butter	420
Tons of hay produced in the past year	275
WHT AC	1
WHT SP BU	14

Other recorded variables (62 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	1
A 11 50	1
A 201 PL	2
A 51 100	2
BUTTER LB	420
CATTLE KS	1
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	1,376
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	1,276
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	2,652
COARSE WOOL LB	52
COLTS FILLIES	9
DUCKS	26
FAMILIES	929
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.70
FRN CA	11
GEESE	20
HENS AND CHKN	884
HORSES OVR THREE	192
HOUSES	626
HOUSES B	31
HOUSES CON	2
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	126
HOUSES FIVE RM	50
HOUSES FOUR RM	54
HOUSES ONE STRY	36
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	16
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	308
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	46
HOUSES THREE RM	32
HOUSES THREE STRY	129
HOUSES TWO RM	10
HOUSES TWO STRY	445
HOUSES UNINH	14
HOUSES W	595
INF 11 A	2
MD FEM	706
MD MALE	719
MD TOT	1,425
MILK COWS	37
NAME CD	St. John, City—Cité
OC P	8
OC TOT	8
OTHER FOWL	35
OTHER HRN CATTLE	1
OTHERS	4,337
SHEEP	13
SUP AM	367
SUP FOR	540
SUP JV	1
SUP PAT	140
SUP SC	226
SUP TOT	907
SWINE	43
SWINE KS	12
TOT DWLG OCC	626
TUR AC	1
TUR BU	90
TURKEY	2
WID FEM	204
WID MALE	67
WID TOT	271
WORKING OX	5

Identifiers

TCP UID: NB020006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB032013 — 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, Prince, Ward—Quartier, New Brunswick (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/st-john-prince-ward-quartier-nb020006-1891/.