Armagh, Quebec (1851 census)
Armagh was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1851 Census of Canada with a population of 112. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.761°N, 70.573°W.
Population
In 1851, Armagh had a population of 112: 57 male and 55 female residents.
Population trajectory across census years
| Year | Population |
|---|---|
| 1851 | 112 |
| 1861 | 648 |
| 1871 | 1,322 |
| 1881 | 1,602 |
| 1891 | 1,549 |
Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).
Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)
Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.
Later boundary forms
- In a later year, this CSD became part of Armagh, 1861 (70.0% share).
Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1851
In the 1851 census, Armagh shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1851
The 1851 census recorded 100 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.
Population & families (1851). This community's record includes 112 total population, 57 males, 55 females, Female members of the family who are present: 54, Male members of the family who are present: 54, 36 single males, 35 single females, 25 families, 20 married females, 20 married males, 5 male births, 4 female births, Males present who are not members of the family: 3, Females present who are not members of the family: 1, 1 widowed males. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)
Age structure (1851). This community's record includes 11 married females aged 20 to 30, 9 females aged 5 to 10, 9 married males aged 20 to 30, 9 single males aged 20 to 30, 8 males aged 5 to 10, 5 males under age 1, 4 females age 3 to 4, 4 females aged 2 to 3, 4 females under age 1, 4 married males aged 30 to 40, 4 married males aged 50 to 60, 4 single females aged 10 to 15, 4 single females aged 15 to 20, 4 single females aged 20 to 30, 4 single males aged 15 to 20, 3 males aged 1 to 2, 3 married females aged 50 to 60, 3 single males aged 10 to 15, 2 females aged 1 to 2, 2 married females aged 30 to 40, 2 married females aged 60 to 70, 2 married males aged 40 to 50, 1 males aged 2 to 3, 1 males aged 3 to 4, 1 males aged 4 to 5, 1 married females aged 15 to 20, 1 married females aged 40 to 50, 1 married females aged 70 to 80, 1 married males aged 60 to 70, 1 single males aged 50 to 60, 1 widowed males aged 40 to 50. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)
Ethnic origin (1851). This community's record includes 111 French Canadians, 1 persons native to Canada, not of French origin. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1851 enumerator also recorded 1 persons originating in Jersey or other British islands — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.
Manufacturing & industry (1851). This community's record includes 3 employees in carding and fulling mills, feet of lumber produced daily by saw mills reporting daily production, carding and fulling mills, carding and fulling mills not reporting, carding and fulling mills reporting, carding and fulling mills returning capital, employees in grist mills, employees in saw mills, employees in tanneries, employees in woollen factories, grist mills, grist mills not reporting, grist mills powered by steam, grist mills powered by water, grist mills reporting annual production, grist mills reporting daily production, grist mills reporting value of annual production or rent, grist mills reporting weekly production, grist mills returning capital, saw mill plants, saw mills, saw mills not reporting, saw mills powered by steam, saw mills powered by water, saw mills reporting annual production, saw mills reporting daily production, saw mills reporting value of annual production or rent, saw mills returning capital, tanneries, tanneries not reporting, tanneries reporting, tanneries returning capital, woollen factories, woollen factories reporting, woollen factories returning capital, pounds of wool produced in carding and fulling mills, $ value annual production or rent from grist mills (pounds sterling), $ value annual production or rent from saw mills (pounds sterling), $ value capital returned by grist mills (pounds sterling), $ value capital returned by saw mills (pounds sterling), yards of cloth produced in carding and fulling mills, yards of cloth produced in woollen factories. barrels of flour produced per day by grist mills reporting daily production. barrels of flour produced per week by grist mills reporting weekly production. barrels of flour produced per year by grist mills reporting annual production. feet of lumber produced per year by saw mills reporting annual production. $ value cloth produced in woollen factories in the past year (pounds sterling). $ value leather produced in tanneries in the past year (pounds sterling). (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V2T7.)
Deaths & mortality (1851). This community's record includes Deaths in the past year among females aged 15 to 20: 1, Deaths in the past year among females of all ages: 1, 1 total number of deaths. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
QC049007— year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file - Persistent place ID:
PLACE_QC141001_1891— 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 1851 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). "Armagh, Quebec (1851 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/armagh-qc049007-1851/.