Year: 1881
| Province: New Brunswick
| County: St. John (City—Ville)
St. John, Sydney, Ward—Quartier, New Brunswick (1881 census)
St. John, Sydney, 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 2,484. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.266°N, 66.054°W.
Population
In 1881, St. John, Sydney, Ward—Quartier had a population of 2,484: 1,185 male and 1,299 female residents.
Population trajectory across census years
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, Sydney, Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 52 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 483 |
| Number of families | 483 |
| Number of females | 1,299 |
| Number of males | 1,185 |
| Number of married females | 390 |
| Number of married males | 390 |
| Number of married persons | 780 |
| Number of widowed females | 127 |
| Number of widowed males | 33 |
| Number of widowed persons | 160 |
| POP TOT | 2,484 |
| Total population | 2,484 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 782 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 762 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 1,544 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 4 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 291 |
| Number of occupied houses | 291 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 8 |
Agriculture (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 15 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 20 |
| POT BU | 20 |
Fisheries (6 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 50 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 100 |
| Barrels of shad produced in the past year | 6 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 330 |
| Number of fishing boats | 1 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 1 |
Other recorded variables (24 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 100 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 1 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 1 |
| C UNMD F | 782 |
| C UNMD M | 762 |
| C UNMD TOT | 1,544 |
| CD NAME | St. John (City—Ville) |
| D OCC | 291 |
| FEMALE | 1,299 |
| GSP XB Q | 50 |
| H CON | 4 |
| H INHAB | 291 |
| H UNINH | 8 |
| MALE | 1,185 |
| MD F | 390 |
| MD M | 390 |
| MD TOT | 780 |
| NET XX F | 330 |
| NUMBER CD | 24 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 15 |
| SHD XB Q | 6 |
| WID F | 127 |
| WID M | 33 |
| WID TOT | 160 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NB024006 — 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 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, Sydney, Ward—Quartier, New Brunswick (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/st-john-sydney-ward-quartier-nb024006-1881/.