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Year: 1851  |  Province: Quebec  |  County: Saguenay

Indians, Quebec (1851 census)

Indians was a census subdivision in Saguenay County, Quebec, recorded in the 1851 Census of Canada with a population of 663. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.774°N, 72.126°W.

Population

In 1851, Indians had a population of 663. Population density was 663.0 people per square mile.

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1851

In the 1851 census, Indians shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1851

The 1851 census recorded 101 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (5 variables)
VariableValue
Number of female births in the past year2
Number of male births in the past year1
POP663
POP XX N.1663
Total population663
Age structure (20 variables)
VariableValue
Number of females age 3 to 42
Number of females aged 1 to 23
Number of females aged 4 to 52
Number of females aged 5 to 104
Number of females under age 12
Number of males aged 2 to 33
Number of males aged 3 to 41
Number of males aged 5 to 109
Number of males under age 11
Number of married females aged 20 to 303
Number of married females aged 30 to 403
Number of married females aged 40 to 501
Number of married males aged 30 to 405
Number of married males aged 50 to 602
Number of single females aged 15 to 201
Number of single females aged 20 to 301
Number of single males aged 10 to 151
Number of single males aged 15 to 202
Number of single males aged 20 to 301
Number of single males aged 30 to 403
Ethnic origin (1 variable)
VariableValue
Number of persons native to Canada, not of French origin663
Manufacturing & industry (48 variables)
VariableValue
Barrels of flour produced per day by grist mills reporting daily production 
Barrels of flour produced per week by grist mills reporting weekly production 
Barrels of flour produced per year by grist mills reporting annual production 
Feet of lumber produced daily by saw mills reporting daily production 
Feet of lumber produced per year by saw mills reporting annual production 
Logs produced by saw mills reporting production by number of logs 
Number of carding and fulling mills not reporting 
Number of employees in carding and fulling mills 
Number of employees in grist mills 
Number of employees in saw mills 
Number of employees in tanneries 
Number of foundries 
Number of foundries reporting 
Number of foundries returning capital 
Number of grist mills 
Number of grist mills not reporting 
Number of grist mills powered by steam 
Number of grist mills powered by water 
Number of grist mills reporting annual production 
Number of grist mills reporting daily production 
Number of grist mills reporting value of annual production or rent 
Number of grist mills reporting weekly production  
Number of grist mills returning capital 
Number of saw mill plants 
Number of saw mills 
Number of saw mills not reporting 
Number of saw mills powered by steam 
Number of saw mills powered by water 
Number of saw mills reporting annual production 
Number of saw mills reporting daily production 
Number of saw mills reporting production by number of logs 
Number of saw mills reporting value of annual production or rent 
Number of saw mills returning capital 
Number of tanneries 
Number of tanneries not reporting 
Number of tanneries reporting 
Number of tanneries returning capital 
Number of woollen factories 
Number of woollen factories reporting 
Number of woollen factories returning capital 
Value of annual production or rent from grist mills (pounds sterling) 
Value of annual production or rent from saw mills (pounds sterling) 
Value of capital returned by grist mills (pounds sterling) 
Value of capital returned by saw mills (pounds sterling) 
Value of cloth produced in woollen factories in the past year (pounds sterling) 
Value of leather produced in tanneries in the past year (pounds sterling) 
Yards of cloth produced in carding and fulling mills in the past year 
Yards of cloth produced in woollen factories in the past year 
Other recorded variables (27 variables)
VariableValue
C03 TOTAL663
C12 BIRTHS M1
C13 BIRTHS F2
C134 GRAND TOT663
C14 UNDER 1 M1
C15 UNDER 1 F2
C19 UNDER 2 F3
C22 UNDER 3 M3
C26 UNDER 4 M1
C27 UNDER 4 F2
C31 UNDER 5 F2
C34 BTWN 5 AND 10 M9
C35 BTWN 5 AND 10 F4
C39 BTWN 10 AND 15 M S1
C45 BTWN 15 AND 20 M S2
C47 BTWN 15 AND 20 F S1
C51 BTWN 20 AND 30 M S1
C53 BTWN 20 AND 30 F MD3
C54 BTWN 20 AND 30 F S1
C58 BTWN 30 AND 40 M MD5
C59 BTWN 30 AND 40 M S3
C61 BTWN 30 AND 40 F MD3
C69 BTWN 40 AND 50 F MD1
C74 BTWN 50 AND 60 M MD2
CD NAMESaguenay
LINE NO1,376
NOT FRN663

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1851 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). "Indians, Quebec (1851 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/indians-qc074028-1851/.