Fraserville, Town—Ville, Quebec (1881 census)

Fraserville, Town—Ville was a town in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,291. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q142024. The administrative centroid was at approximately 47.841°N, 69.542°W.

Population

In 1881, Fraserville, Town—Ville had a population of 2,291: 1,123 male and 1,168 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 became part of Fraserville, Town—Ville, 1891 (75.1% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Fraserville, Town—Ville shared boundaries with:

• Rivière du Loup

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 44 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 2,291 total population, 1,168 females, 1,123 males, 695 married persons, 423 families, 348 married females, 347 married males, 78 widowed persons, 50 widowed females, 28 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,518 single persons under 18, 770 single females under 18, 748 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 296 occupied houses, 295 inhabited houses, 23 uninhabited houses, 14 houses under construction, 1 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 11,506 bushels of potatoes, 4,271 bushels of oats, 742 bushels of other root crops, 702 bushels of spring wheat, 442 bushels of barley, 435 tons of hay, 281 bushels of turnips, 237 acres of hay crops, 82 acres of potatoes, 68 acres of wheat, 61 bushels of peas and beans, 28 bushels of buckwheat, 22 bushels of rye. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 683 fathoms of fishing nets, 360 gallons of fish oil, 225 barrels of herring or alewives, 200 barrels of other fish, 14 fishing boats, 14 men on fishing boats, 4 shoremen, 2 barrels of salmon, 2 quintals of fascines fish, 1 barrels of eels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 12 barrels of sardines, 6 barrels of shad, 58 barrels of whitefish — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

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 2,291 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: QC041001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC196004 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q142024
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivi%C3%A8re-du-Loup
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivi%C3%A8re-du-Loup

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). "Fraserville, Town—Ville, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/fraserville-town-ville-qc041001-1881/.