Bonne Espérance, Quebec (1891 census)

Name: Bonne Espérance (1891)
Address: Quebec, CA

Bonne Espérance was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 351. The administrative centroid was at approximately 51.428°N, 57.894°W.

Population

In 1891, Bonne Espérance had a population of 351: 186 male and 165 female residents. Population density was 0.5 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	266
1881	341
1891	351
1901	903

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, Bonne Espérance shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 74 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.80
FAM NO	61
Number of families	61
Number of females	165
Number of males	186
Number of married females	55
Number of married males	55
Number of married persons	110
Number of widowed females	5
Number of widowed males	5
Number of widowed persons	10
POP F	165
POP M	186
POP TOT	351
Total population	351

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	105
Number of single males under 18	126
Number of single persons under 18	231

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	144
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	207

Buildings & housing (9 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	56
Number of houses built of wood	56
Number of houses of 1 room	4
Number of houses of 1 story	56
Number of houses of 2 rooms	35
Number of houses of 3 rooms	12
Number of houses of 4 rooms	5
Number of occupied houses	56
Number of uninhabited houses	19

Agriculture (13 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	2
Acres of farmland under crops	2
Acres of improved land in farms	4
Acres of land in farms	4
Acres of potatoes	1
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	16
Number of chickens	18
Number of employees on farms	1
Number of farm occupants who own their land	2
Number of occupants of farms	3
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	3
POT AC	1
POT BU	16

Other recorded variables (32 variables)

Variable	Value
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	105
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	126
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	231
FAMILIES	61
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.80
FRN CA	144
HENS AND CHKN	18
HOUSES	56
HOUSES FOUR RM	5
HOUSES ONE RM	4
HOUSES ONE STRY	56
HOUSES THREE RM	12
HOUSES TWO RM	35
HOUSES UNINH	19
HOUSES W	56
INF 11 A	3
MD FEM	55
MD MALE	55
MD TOT	110
NAME CD	Chicoutimi and Saguenay
OC E	1
OC P	2
OC TOT	3
OTHERS	207
SUP AM	4
SUP JV	2
SUP SC	2
SUP TOT	4
TOT DWLG OCC	56
WID FEM	5
WID MALE	5
WID TOT	10

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC149029 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC149041 — 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). "Bonne Espérance, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/bonne-esp-rance-qc149029-1891/.