Chapeau (Village), Allumette Island, Quebec (1881 census)

Name: Chapeau (Village), Allumette Island (1881)
Address: Quebec, CA

Chapeau (Village), Allumette Island was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,715. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.869°N, 77.048°W.

Population

In 1881, Chapeau (Village), Allumette Island had a population of 1,715: 860 male and 855 female residents.

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 contained Chapeau, Village, 1891 (3.3% of this CSD's polygon).

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 33 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,715 total population, 860 males, 855 females, 491 married persons, 285 families, 247 married males, 244 married females, 68 widowed persons, 46 widowed females, 22 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,156 single persons under 18, 591 single males under 18, 565 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 281 inhabited houses, 281 occupied houses, 11 uninhabited houses, 2 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 82,965 bushels of oats, 37,365 bushels of potatoes, 12,010 bushels of peas and beans, 10,929 bushels of rye, 6,965 bushels of spring wheat, 4,646 bushels of turnips, 2,811 bushels of buckwheat, 2,750 acres of hay crops, 2,191 tons of hay, 1,664 bushels of barley, 1,541 bushels of corn, 852 acres of wheat, 583 bushels of other root crops, 342 acres of potatoes, 79 bushels of winter wheat, 11 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,715 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC098015 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC098015 — 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). "Chapeau (Village), Allumette Island, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/chapeau-village-allumette-island-qc098015-1881/.