Year: 1881
| Province: Quebec
| County: Gaspé
Cap Chat, Quebec (1881 census)
Cap Chat was a census subdivision in Gaspé County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,427. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.072°N, 66.639°W.
Population
In 1881, Cap Chat had a population of 1,427: 760 male and 667 female residents. Population density was 50.3 people per square mile.
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 1881
In the 1881 census, Cap Chat shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 100 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 216 |
| Number of families | 216 |
| Number of females | 667 |
| Number of males | 760 |
| Number of married females | 216 |
| Number of married males | 216 |
| Number of married persons | 432 |
| Number of widowed females | 14 |
| Number of widowed males | 8 |
| Number of widowed persons | 22 |
| POP TOT | 1,427 |
| Total population | 1,427 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 437 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 536 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 973 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 9 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 168 |
| Number of occupied houses | 168 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 20 |
Agriculture (29 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,049 |
| Acres of potatoes | 217 |
| Acres of wheat | 727 |
| BAR BU | 5,141 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 5,141 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 383 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 25 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 2 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 6,017 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 1,864 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 2,722 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 33,791 |
| Bushels of rye produced in the past year | 3,280 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 6,726 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 475 |
| Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year | 284 |
| BWT BU | 383 |
| CRN BU | 2 |
| HAY AC | 1,049 |
| HAY TONS | 580 |
| OAT BU | 6,017 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 2,722 |
| POT AC | 217 |
| POT BU | 33,791 |
| RYE BU | 3,280 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 580 |
| WHT AC | 727 |
| WHT SP BU | 6,726 |
| WHT WTR BU | 284 |
Fisheries (16 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 1 |
| Barrels of halibut produced in the past year | 14 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 603 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 194 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 5,150 |
| Barrels of oysters produced in the past year | 48 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 12 |
| Barrels of sardines produced in the past year | 26 |
| Barrels of trout produced in the past year | 22 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 1,078 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 1,269 |
| Number of fishing boats | 106 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 190 |
| Number of shoremen | 11 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 4,854 |
| Quintals of fascines fish produced in the past year | 5 |
Other recorded variables (36 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 603 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 190 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 106 |
| C UNMD F | 437 |
| C UNMD M | 536 |
| C UNMD TOT | 973 |
| CD NAME | Gaspé |
| COD DX K | 4,854 |
| D OCC | 168 |
| EEL XB Q | 1 |
| FASCINE FISH Q | 5 |
| FEMALE | 667 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 1,269 |
| GRA BU | 25 |
| H CON | 9 |
| H INHAB | 168 |
| H UNINH | 20 |
| HAL XB Q | 14 |
| MALE | 760 |
| MCK XB Q | 194 |
| MD F | 216 |
| MD M | 216 |
| MD TOT | 432 |
| NET XX F | 1,078 |
| NUMBER CD | 39 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 5,150 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 1,864 |
| OYS XB Q | 48 |
| SAR XB Q | 26 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 11 |
| SLM XB Q | 12 |
| TRT XB Q | 22 |
| TUR BU | 475 |
| WID F | 14 |
| WID M | 8 |
| WID TOT | 22 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
QC039001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_QC056003 — 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 1881 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). "Cap Chat, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/cap-chat-qc039001-1881/.