Frelighsburg, Village, Quebec (1891 census)

Name: Frelighsburg, Village (1891)
Address: Quebec, CA

Frelighsburg, Village was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 263. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.055°N, 72.842°W.

Population

In 1891, Frelighsburg, Village had a population of 263: 132 male and 131 female residents. Population density was 375.7 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	255
1881	278
1891	263
1901	231
1911	282
1921	254

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Frelighsburg, Village shared boundaries with:

St. Armand E

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 142 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.90
FAM NO	54
Number of families	54
Number of females	131
Number of males	132
Number of married females	50
Number of married males	51
Number of married persons	101
Number of widowed females	10
Number of widowed males	3
Number of widowed persons	13
POP F	131
POP M	132
POP TOT	263
Total population	263

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	71
Number of single males under 18	78
Number of single persons under 18	149

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	100
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	163

Buildings & housing (14 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	54
Number of houses built of brick	14
Number of houses built of stone	1
Number of houses built of wood	39
Number of houses of 1 story	34
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	11
Number of houses of 2 stories	20
Number of houses of 3 rooms	4
Number of houses of 4 rooms	5
Number of houses of 5 rooms	4
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	27
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	3
Number of occupied houses	54
Number of uninhabited houses	4

Agriculture (52 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	9
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	33
Acres of farmland in pasture	165
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	50
Acres of farmland under crops	184
Acres of hay crops	166
Acres of improved land in farms	382
Acres of land in farms	432
Acres of oats	14
Acres of potatoes	15
Acres of turnips	2
Acres of wheat	1
BAR AC	9
BAR BU	266
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	266
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	15
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	3
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	553
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	460
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	1,565
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	220
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year	25
BWT BU	3
CRN BU	553
HAY AC	166
HAY TONS	263
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	4
Number of chickens	257
Number of ducks	4
Number of farm occupants who own their land	32
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	28
Number of geese	13
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	5
Number of horses aged over 3 years	48
Number of milk cows	48
Number of occupants of farms	60
Number of other cattle	5
Number of oxen	2
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	4
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	53
Number of swine	21
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	32
Number of turkeys	10
OAT AC	14
OAT BU	460
POT AC	15
POT BU	1,565
Pounds of homemade butter	3,489
Tons of hay produced in the past year	263
WHT AC	1
WHT FALL BU	25

Other recorded variables (56 variables)

Variable	Value
A 11 50	3
A 51 100	4
BEN BU	15
BUTTER LB	3,489
CATTLE KS	4
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	71
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	78
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	149
COLTS FILLIES	5
DUCKS	4
FAMILIES	54
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.90
FRN CA	100
GEESE	13
HENS AND CHKN	257
HORSES OVR THREE	48
HOUSES	54
HOUSES B	14
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	11
HOUSES FIVE RM	4
HOUSES FOUR RM	5
HOUSES ONE STRY	34
HOUSES S	1
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	27
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	3
HOUSES THREE RM	4
HOUSES TWO STRY	20
HOUSES UNINH	4
HOUSES W	39
INF 11 A	53
MD FEM	50
MD MALE	51
MD TOT	101
MILK COWS	48
NAME CD	Missisquoi
OC F	28
OC P	32
OC TOT	60
OTHER HRN CATTLE	5
OTHERS	163
SUP AM	382
SUP FOR	50
SUP JV	33
SUP PAT	165
SUP SC	184
SUP TOT	432
SWINE	21
SWINE KS	32
TOT DWLG OCC	54
TUR AC	2
TUR BU	220
TURKEY	10
WID FEM	10
WID MALE	3
WID TOT	13
WORKING OX	2

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC169007 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC072018 — 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). "Frelighsburg, Village, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/frelighsburg-village-qc169007-1891/.