Elgin & Taché, Quebec (1891 census)

Elgin & Taché was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 570. The administrative centroid was at approximately 47.062°N, 69.904°W.

Population

In 1891, Elgin & Taché had a population of 570: 304 male and 266 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.

Earlier boundary forms

• In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Ste. Perpétue, St. Pamphile, Casgrain, Dionne & c, 1881 (54.9% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Elgin & Taché shared boundaries with:

• NO DATA
• St. Aubert
• St. Cyrille
• St. Damase
• St. Pamphile

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 77 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 570 total population, 304 males, 266 females, 181 married persons, 107 families, 91 married males, 90 married females, 19 widowed persons, 10 widowed females, 9 widowed males, 5.30 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 370 single persons under 18, 204 single males under 18, 166 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 570 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 93 occupied houses, 92 houses, 92 houses built of wood, 50 houses of 1 story, 38 houses of 2 stories, 31 houses of 4 rooms, 25 houses of 2 rooms, 15 houses of 3 rooms, 14 uninhabited houses, 12 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 8 houses of 5 rooms, 7 houses under construction, 4 houses of 3 stories, 1 dwellings that are vessels and shanties, 1 houses of 11 to 15 rooms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 16,788 acres of land in farms, 15,755 pounds of homemade butter, 13,189 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 6,926 bushels of potatoes, 4,706 bushels of oats, 3,599 acres of improved land in farms, 2,209 acres of farmland under crops, 1,380 acres of farmland in pasture, 1,332 acres of hay crops, 1,161 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 689 tons of hay, 586 bushels of barley, 546 chickens, 509 acres of oats, 359 bushels of spring wheat, 358 sheep, 271 bushels of peas, 201 milk cows, 143 swine slaughtered or sold, 131 sheep slaughtered or sold, 123 swine, 112 other cattle, 109 bushels of rye, 101 horses aged over 3 years, 101 occupants of farms, 95 farm occupants who own their land, 83 acres of potatoes, 69 acres of barley, 57 bushels of turnips, 56 acres of wheat, 39 cattle killed or sold, 38 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 37 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 25 horses aged 3 years and under, 24 oxen, 24 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 20 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 11 bushels of buckwheat, 11 other fowl, 10 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 9 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 6 farm occupants who rent their land, 5 ducks, 3 turkeys, 2 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 1 acres of turnips, 1 bushels of beans. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC165002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC165002 — 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). "Elgin & Taché, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/elgin-tach-qc165002-1891/.