Cèdres, Village, Quebec (1891 census)

Name: Cèdres, Village (1891)
Address: Quebec, CA

Cèdres, Village was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 256. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.306°N, 74.054°W.

Population

In 1891, Cèdres, Village had a population of 256: 113 male and 143 female residents. Population density was 2895.9 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1861	259
1871	1,883
1881	208
1891	256
1901	344

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, Cèdres, Village shared boundaries with:

St. Joseph de Soulanges

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 154 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.60
FAM NO	55
Number of families	55
Number of females	143
Number of males	113
Number of married females	44
Number of married males	45
Number of married persons	89
Number of widowed females	8
Number of widowed males	2
Number of widowed persons	10
POP F	143
POP M	113
POP TOT	256
Total population	256

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	91
Number of single males under 18	66
Number of single persons under 18	157

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	246
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	10

Buildings & housing (17 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	53
Number of houses built of brick	2
Number of houses built of stone	7
Number of houses built of wood	44
Number of houses of 1 room	1
Number of houses of 1 story	21
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	7
Number of houses of 2 rooms	2
Number of houses of 2 stories	26
Number of houses of 3 rooms	14
Number of houses of 3 stories	6
Number of houses of 4 rooms	10
Number of houses of 5 rooms	2
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	17
Number of houses under construction	2
Number of occupied houses	53
Number of uninhabited houses	1

Agriculture (54 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	23
Acres of farmland in pasture	26
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	96
Acres of farmland under crops	115
Acres of hay crops	46
Acres of improved land in farms	164
Acres of land in farms	260
Acres of oats	26
Acres of potatoes	9
Acres of turnips	2
Acres of wheat	3
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	7
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	30
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	5
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	22
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	415
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	175
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	1,135
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	25
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	124
BWT BU	30
CRN BU	22
HAY AC	46
HAY TONS	27
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	15
Number of chickens	540
Number of ducks	17
Number of employees on farms	1
Number of farm occupants who own their land	44
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	11
Number of horses aged over 3 years	22
Number of milk cows	30
Number of occupants of farms	56
Number of other cattle	7
Number of other fowl	10
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	4
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	51
Number of sheep	35
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	20
Number of swine	24
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	50
Number of turkeys	3
OAT AC	26
OAT BU	415
PEA BU	175
POT AC	9
POT BU	1,135
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	65
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year	67
Pounds of homemade butter	2,781
Tons of hay produced in the past year	27
WHT AC	3
WHT SP BU	25

Other recorded variables (63 variables)

Variable	Value
A 11 50	4
A 51 100	1
BEN BU	7
BUTTER LB	2,781
CATTLE KS	15
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	91
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	66
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	157
COARSE WOOL LB	65
DUCKS	17
FAMILIES	55
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.60
FINE WOOL LB	67
FRN CA	246
GRA BU	5
HENS AND CHKN	540
HORSES OVR THREE	22
HOUSES	53
HOUSES B	2
HOUSES CON	2
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	7
HOUSES FIVE RM	2
HOUSES FOUR RM	10
HOUSES ONE RM	1
HOUSES ONE STRY	21
HOUSES S	7
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	17
HOUSES THREE RM	14
HOUSES THREE STRY	6
HOUSES TWO RM	2
HOUSES TWO STRY	26
HOUSES UNINH	1
HOUSES W	44
INF 11 A	51
MD FEM	44
MD MALE	45
MD TOT	89
MILK COWS	30
NAME CD	Soulanges
OC E	1
OC F	11
OC P	44
OC TOT	56
OTHER FOWL	10
OTHER HRN CATTLE	7
OTHERS	10
SHEEP	35
SHEEP KS	20
SUP AM	164
SUP FOR	96
SUP JV	23
SUP PAT	26
SUP SC	115
SUP TOT	260
SWINE	24
SWINE KS	50
TOT DWLG OCC	53
TUR AC	2
TUR BU	124
TURKEY	3
WID FEM	8
WID MALE	2
WID TOT	10

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC190001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC194001 — 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). "Cèdres, Village, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/c-dres-village-qc190001-1891/.