Bienville, Village, Quebec (1891 census)

Bienville, Village was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 840. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q2902028. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.814°N, 71.169°W.

Population

In 1891, Bienville, Village had a population of 840: 417 male and 423 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 1891

In the 1891 census, Bienville, Village shared boundaries with:

• Lauzon, T-V
• Lévis, C

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 68 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 840 total population, 423 females, 417 males, 299 married persons, 171 families, 150 married males, 149 married females, 34 widowed persons, 19 widowed females, 15 widowed males, 4.90 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 507 single persons under 18, 255 single females under 18, 252 single males under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 831 French Canadians, 9 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 134 houses, 134 occupied houses, 127 houses built of wood, 91 houses of 1 story, 85 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 43 houses of 2 stories, 17 houses of 4 rooms, 13 houses of 5 rooms, 9 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 8 houses of 3 rooms, 7 uninhabited houses, 4 houses built of brick, 3 houses built of stone, 1 houses of 2 rooms, 1 houses of over 15 rooms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 690 pounds of homemade butter, 396 bushels of potatoes, 179 acres of hay crops, 172 tons of hay, 152 bushels of turnips, 139 acres of land in farms, 127 bushels of oats, 127 chickens, 117 acres of improved land in farms, 93 occupants of farms, 91 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 67 farm occupants who own their land, 48 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 43 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 43 horses aged over 3 years, 40 acres of farmland in pasture, 34 acres of farmland under crops, 31 milk cows, 30 swine, 26 farm occupants who rent their land, 24 bushels of beans, 22 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 17 bushels of peas, 16 swine slaughtered or sold, 12 sheep, 8 acres of oats, 7 acres of potatoes, 6 bushels of corn, 6 other cattle, 4 oxen, 3 horses aged 3 years and under, 1 acres of turnips, 1 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 1 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 1 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 1 sheep slaughtered or sold, 1 turkeys. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC164001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC066016 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q2902028
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bienville_(Qu%C3%A9bec)

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). "Bienville, Village, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/bienville-village-qc164001-1891/.