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

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

St. John, Sydney, Ward—Quartier was a census subdivision in New Brunswick, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 2,240. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.266°N, 66.054°W.

Population

In 1891, St. John, Sydney, Ward—Quartier had a population of 2,240: 1,044 male and 1,196 female residents. Population density was 8921.2 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	2,265
1881	2,484
1891	2,240
1901	2,286
1911	2,414

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, Sydney, Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:

St. John City, Dukes ward-quartier

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 128 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	478
Number of families	478
Number of females	1,196
Number of males	1,044
Number of married females	376
Number of married males	362
Number of married persons	738
Number of widowed females	114
Number of widowed males	41
Number of widowed persons	155
POP F	1,196
POP M	1,044
POP TOT	2,240
Total population	2,240

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	706
Number of single males under 18	641
Number of single persons under 18	1,347

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	5
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	2,235

Buildings & housing (17 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of dwellings that are vessels and shanties	1
Number of houses	304
Number of houses built of brick	13
Number of houses built of wood	291
Number of houses of 1 story	65
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	54
Number of houses of 2 rooms	3
Number of houses of 2 stories	167
Number of houses of 3 rooms	17
Number of houses of 3 stories	70
Number of houses of 4 rooms	25
Number of houses of 5 rooms	26
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	154
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	2
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	25
Number of occupied houses	305
Number of uninhabited houses	5

Agriculture (38 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	2
Acres of farmland in pasture	135
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	105
Acres of farmland under crops	48
Acres of hay crops	12
Acres of improved land in farms	185
Acres of land in farms	290
Acres of oats	5
Acres of potatoes	4
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	16
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	10
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	180
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	20
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	320
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	16
BWT BU	10
HAY AC	12
HAY TONS	19
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	9
Number of chickens	409
Number of ducks	13
Number of farm occupants who own their land	3
Number of geese	14
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	5
Number of horses aged over 3 years	59
Number of milk cows	13
Number of occupants of farms	3
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	1
Number of turkeys	4
OAT AC	5
OAT BU	180
PEA BU	20
POT AC	4
POT BU	320
Pounds of homemade butter	50
Tons of hay produced in the past year	19

Other recorded variables (53 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	1
A 11 50	1
A 51 100	1
BEN BU	16
BUTTER LB	50
CATTLE KS	9
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	706
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	641
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	1,347
COLTS FILLIES	5
DUCKS	13
FAMILIES	478
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.70
FRN CA	5
GEESE	14
HENS AND CHKN	409
HORSES OVR THREE	59
HOUSES	304
HOUSES B	13
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	54
HOUSES FIVE RM	26
HOUSES FOUR RM	25
HOUSES ONE STRY	65
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	2
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	154
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	25
HOUSES THREE RM	17
HOUSES THREE STRY	70
HOUSES TWO RM	3
HOUSES TWO STRY	167
HOUSES UNINH	5
HOUSES W	291
MD FEM	376
MD MALE	362
MD TOT	738
MILK COWS	13
NAME CD	St. John, City—Cité
OC P	3
OC TOT	3
OTHERS	2,235
SUP AM	185
SUP FOR	105
SUP JV	2
SUP PAT	135
SUP SC	48
SUP TOT	290
TOT DWLG OCC	305
TUR BU	16
TURKEY	4
VESS AND SHAN	1
WID FEM	114
WID MALE	41
WID TOT	155

Identifiers

TCP UID: NB020008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB032016 — 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, Sydney, Ward—Quartier, New Brunswick (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/st-john-sydney-ward-quartier-nb020008-1891/.