Isle du Pad, Quebec (1881 census)

Name: Isle du Pad (1881)
Address: Quebec, CA

Isle du Pad was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,356. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.103°N, 73.102°W.

Population

In 1881, Isle du Pad had a population of 1,356: 693 male and 663 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 contained Isle du Pads, 1871 (60.2% share).

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 32 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,356 total population, 693 males, 663 females, 464 married persons, 269 families, 233 married males, 231 married females, 52 widowed persons, 33 widowed females, 19 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 840 single persons under 18, 441 single males under 18, 399 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 192 inhabited houses, 192 occupied houses, 17 uninhabited houses, 1 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 39,597 bushels of oats, 10,936 bushels of potatoes, 10,088 bushels of buckwheat, 5,574 tons of hay, 3,303 bushels of peas and beans, 3,070 acres of hay crops, 2,852 bushels of other root crops, 2,148 bushels of spring wheat, 967 bushels of corn, 486 bushels of barley, 257 acres of wheat, 228 acres of potatoes, 115 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 92 bushels of rye, 86 bushels of turnips. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,356 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: QC086005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC086005 — 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 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). "Isle du Pad, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/isle-du-pad-qc086005-1881/.