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

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

St. John, Wellington, Ward—Quartier was a census subdivision in New Brunswick, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 3,806. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.279°N, 66.057°W.

Population

In 1891, St. John, Wellington, Ward—Quartier had a population of 3,806: 1,674 male and 2,132 female residents. Population density was 28964.8 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	4,008
1881	4,478
1891	3,806
1901	4,450
1911	4,567

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, Wellington, Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 140 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.90
FAM NO	770
Number of families	770
Number of females	2,132
Number of males	1,674
Number of married females	608
Number of married males	608
Number of married persons	1,216
Number of widowed females	173
Number of widowed males	46
Number of widowed persons	219
POP F	2,132
POP M	1,674
POP TOT	3,806
Total population	3,806

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	1,351
Number of single males under 18	1,020
Number of single persons under 18	2,371

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	19
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	3,787

Buildings & housing (18 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	616
Number of houses built of brick	31
Number of houses built of stone	3
Number of houses built of wood	582
Number of houses of 1 story	8
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	115
Number of houses of 2 rooms	7
Number of houses of 2 stories	468
Number of houses of 3 rooms	23
Number of houses of 3 stories	138
Number of houses of 4 rooms	63
Number of houses of 5 rooms	59
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	313
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	2
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	36
Number of houses under construction	2
Number of occupied houses	616
Number of uninhabited houses	14

Agriculture (43 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	10
Acres of farmland in pasture	259
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	816
Acres of farmland under crops	424
Acres of hay crops	266
Acres of improved land in farms	693
Acres of land in farms	1,509
Acres of oats	44
Acres of potatoes	10
Acres of turnips	1
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	5
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	308
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	4
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	660
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	20
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	347
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	122
BWT BU	308
HAY AC	266
HAY TONS	242
Number of chickens	287
Number of ducks	12
Number of farm occupants who own their land	12
Number of geese	3
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	15
Number of horses aged over 3 years	172
Number of milk cows	27
Number of occupants of farms	12
Number of other cattle	1
Number of oxen	3
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	4
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	2
Number of swine	5
OAT AC	44
OAT BU	660
PEA BU	20
POT AC	10
POT BU	347
Pounds of homemade butter	490
Tons of hay produced in the past year	242

Other recorded variables (59 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	4
A 11 50	1
A 201 PL	2
A 51 100	3
BEN BU	5
BUTTER LB	490
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	1,351
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	1,020
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	2,371
COLTS FILLIES	15
DUCKS	12
FAMILIES	770
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.90
FRN CA	19
GEESE	3
GRA BU	4
HENS AND CHKN	287
HORSES OVR THREE	172
HOUSES	616
HOUSES B	31
HOUSES CON	2
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	115
HOUSES FIVE RM	59
HOUSES FOUR RM	63
HOUSES ONE STRY	8
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	2
HOUSES S	3
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	313
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	36
HOUSES THREE RM	23
HOUSES THREE STRY	138
HOUSES TWO RM	7
HOUSES TWO STRY	468
HOUSES UNINH	14
HOUSES W	582
INF 11 A	2
MD FEM	608
MD MALE	608
MD TOT	1,216
MILK COWS	27
NAME CD	St. John, City—Cité
OC P	12
OC TOT	12
OTHER HRN CATTLE	1
OTHERS	3,787
SUP AM	693
SUP FOR	816
SUP JV	10
SUP PAT	259
SUP SC	424
SUP TOT	1,509
SWINE	5
TOT DWLG OCC	616
TUR AC	1
TUR BU	122
WID FEM	173
WID MALE	46
WID TOT	219
WORKING OX	3

Identifiers

TCP UID: NB020009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB032018 — 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, Wellington, Ward—Quartier, New Brunswick (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/st-john-wellington-ward-quartier-nb020009-1891/.