Year: 1881
| Province: Quebec
| County: Chicoutimi & Saguenay
Isle of Anticosti, Quebec (1881 census)
Isle of Anticosti was a census subdivision in Chicoutimi & Saguenay County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 676. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.843°N, 64.431°W.
Population
In 1881, Isle of Anticosti had a population of 676: 359 male and 317 female residents. Population density was 676.0 people per square mile.
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 1881
In the 1881 census, Isle of Anticosti shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 84 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 117 |
| Number of families | 117 |
| Number of females | 317 |
| Number of males | 359 |
| Number of married females | 105 |
| Number of married males | 107 |
| Number of married persons | 212 |
| Number of widowed females | 7 |
| Number of widowed males | 7 |
| Number of widowed persons | 14 |
| POP TOT | 676 |
| Total population | 676 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 205 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 245 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 450 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 4 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 113 |
| Number of occupied houses | 113 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 12 |
Agriculture (15 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 41 |
| Acres of potatoes | 129 |
| BAR BU | 133 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 133 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 2 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 51 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 19,678 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 1,797 |
| CRN BU | 2 |
| HAY AC | 41 |
| HAY TONS | 106 |
| OAT BU | 51 |
| POT AC | 129 |
| POT BU | 19,678 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 106 |
Fisheries (16 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 10 |
| Barrels of halibut produced in the past year | 115 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 539 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 5 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 1,472 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 29 |
| Barrels of trout produced in the past year | 12 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 3,176 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 4,893 |
| Number of fishing boats | 202 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 3 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 228 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 2 |
| Number of shoremen | 167 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 3,135 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 4,938 |
Other recorded variables (34 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 539 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 228 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 202 |
| C UNMD F | 205 |
| C UNMD M | 245 |
| C UNMD TOT | 450 |
| CD NAME | Chicoutimi & Saguenay |
| COD DX K | 3,135 |
| D OCC | 113 |
| EEL XB Q | 10 |
| FEMALE | 317 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 4,893 |
| H CON | 4 |
| H INHAB | 113 |
| H UNINH | 12 |
| HAD DX K | 4,938 |
| HAL XB Q | 115 |
| MALE | 359 |
| MCK XB Q | 5 |
| MD F | 105 |
| MD M | 107 |
| MD TOT | 212 |
| NET XX F | 3,176 |
| NUMBER CD | 76 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 1,472 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 167 |
| SLM XB Q | 29 |
| TRT XB Q | 12 |
| TUR BU | 1,797 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 2 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 3 |
| WID F | 7 |
| WID M | 7 |
| WID TOT | 14 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
QC076008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_QC154055 — 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 of Anticosti, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/isle-of-anticosti-qc076008-1881/.