Huntingdon, Village, Quebec (1891 census)

Huntingdon, Village was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,177. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q141764. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.088°N, 74.179°W.

Population

In 1891, Huntingdon, Village had a population of 1,177: 567 male and 610 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).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

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

• Godmanchester
• Hinchinbrooke

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 1,177 total population, 610 females, 567 males, 305 married persons, 244 families, 153 married males, 152 married females, 70 widowed persons, 51 widowed females, 19 widowed males, 4.80 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 802 single persons under 18, 407 single females under 18, 395 single males under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 912 persons who are not French Canadian, 265 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 231 houses, 231 occupied houses, 183 houses of 1 story, 163 houses built of wood, 130 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 64 houses built of brick, 44 houses of 2 stories, 31 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 27 houses of 4 rooms, 24 houses of 5 rooms, 13 houses of 3 rooms, 8 uninhabited houses, 5 houses of over 15 rooms, 4 houses built of stone, 4 houses of 3 stories, 1 houses of 2 rooms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 23,662 pounds of homemade butter, 3,159 bushels of peas, 1,764 bushels of potatoes, 1,262 bushels of oats, 1,225 chickens, 441 acres of land in farms, 408 acres of improved land in farms, 314 acres of farmland under crops, 235 tons of hay, 180 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 167 occupants of farms, 161 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 156 swine slaughtered or sold, 150 horses aged over 3 years, 147 acres of hay crops, 147 bushels of turnips, 135 farm occupants who own their land, 122 milk cows, 74 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 66 acres of oats, 63 bushels of barley, 49 swine, 48 sheep, 35 cattle killed or sold, 33 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 33 ducks, 31 farm occupants who rent their land, 28 bushels of corn, 28 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 23 other cattle, 20 acres of farmland in pasture, 18 acres of potatoes, 18 bushels of spring wheat, 11 horses aged 3 years and under, 10 bushels of buckwheat, 10 other fowl, 6 acres of barley, 5 acres of wheat, 5 sheep slaughtered or sold, 4 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 3 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 2 acres of turnips, 2 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 1 employees on farms, 1 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 2 people connected to this place who were alive in 1891, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC156009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC058012 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q141764
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntingdon,_Quebec
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntingdon_(Qu%C3%A9bec)

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). "Huntingdon, Village, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/huntingdon-village-qc156009-1891/.