Charlesbourg, VL, Quebec (1881 census)

Charlesbourg, VL was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,333. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q1660491. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.899°N, 71.306°W.

Population

In 1881, Charlesbourg, VL had a population of 2,333: 1,137 male and 1,196 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).

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 Charlesbourg, VL, 1891 (85.5% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Charlesbourg, VL shared boundaries with:

• Beauport
• Lac Beauport
• Québec, St. Roch N
• Québec, St. Roch S
• St. Ambroise
• St. Edmond de Stoneham

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 2,333 total population, 1,196 females, 1,137 males, 731 married persons, 417 families, 366 married males, 365 married females, 109 widowed persons, 65 widowed females, 44 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,493 single persons under 18, 766 single females under 18, 727 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 381 inhabited houses, 381 occupied houses, 12 uninhabited houses, 4 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 77,098 bushels of potatoes, 46,027 bushels of oats, 18,520 bushels of other root crops, 10,486 bushels of turnips, 6,318 tons of hay, 3,726 acres of hay crops, 2,680 bushels of spring wheat, 1,770 bushels of peas and beans, 1,663 bushels of barley, 1,095 bushels of buckwheat, 728 bushels of corn, 385 acres of potatoes, 165 acres of wheat, 95 bushels of rye, 30 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 22 bushels of winter wheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 1 person connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 2,333 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: QC080002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC081021 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q1660491
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlesbourg,_Quebec_City
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlesbourg

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). "Charlesbourg, VL, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/charlesbourg-vl-qc080002-1881/.