Isle of Anticosti, Quebec (1891 census)

Name: Isle of Anticosti (1891)
Address: Quebec, CA

Isle of Anticosti was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 253. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.843°N, 64.431°W.

Population

In 1891, Isle of Anticosti had a population of 253: 146 male and 107 female residents. Population density was 253.0 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	676
1891	253
1901	442
1911	461

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, Isle of Anticosti shared boundaries with:

NO DATA

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 136 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	6
FAM NO	42
Number of families	42
Number of females	107
Number of males	146
Number of married females	37
Number of married males	37
Number of married persons	74
Number of widowed females	3
Number of widowed males	7
Number of widowed persons	10
POP F	107
POP M	146
POP TOT	253
Total population	253

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	67
Number of single males under 18	102
Number of single persons under 18	169

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	167
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	86

Buildings & housing (16 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of dwellings that are vessels and shanties	1
Number of houses	41
Number of houses built of brick	1
Number of houses built of wood	40
Number of houses of 1 room	2
Number of houses of 1 story	38
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	2
Number of houses of 2 rooms	9
Number of houses of 2 stories	1
Number of houses of 3 rooms	8
Number of houses of 4 rooms	9
Number of houses of 5 rooms	4
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	7
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	2
Number of occupied houses	42
Number of uninhabited houses	21

Agriculture (41 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	7
Acres of farmland in pasture	62
Acres of farmland under crops	148
Acres of hay crops	88
Acres of improved land in farms	210
Acres of land in farms	210
Acres of potatoes	43
Acres of turnips	11
BAR AC	7
BAR BU	54
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	54
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	5,647
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	611
HAY AC	88
HAY TONS	93
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	3
Number of chickens	184
Number of ducks	18
Number of employees on farms	1
Number of farm occupants who own their land	33
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	8
Number of geese	16
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	1
Number of horses aged over 3 years	7
Number of milk cows	19
Number of occupants of farms	42
Number of other cattle	8
Number of other fowl	7
Number of oxen	7
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	5
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	37
Number of sheep	8
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	21
Number of swine	55
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	39
POT AC	43
POT BU	5,647
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	32
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year	70
Pounds of homemade butter	1,140
Tons of hay produced in the past year	93

Other recorded variables (59 variables)

Variable	Value
A 11 50	5
BUTTER LB	1,140
CATTLE KS	3
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	67
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	102
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	169
COARSE WOOL LB	32
COLTS FILLIES	1
DUCKS	18
FAMILIES	42
FAMILIES AV SIZE	6
FINE WOOL LB	70
FRN CA	167
GEESE	16
HENS AND CHKN	184
HORSES OVR THREE	7
HOUSES	41
HOUSES B	1
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	2
HOUSES FIVE RM	4
HOUSES FOUR RM	9
HOUSES ONE RM	2
HOUSES ONE STRY	38
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	2
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	7
HOUSES THREE RM	8
HOUSES TWO RM	9
HOUSES TWO STRY	1
HOUSES UNINH	21
HOUSES W	40
INF 11 A	37
MD FEM	37
MD MALE	37
MD TOT	74
MILK COWS	19
NAME CD	Chicoutimi and Saguenay
OC E	1
OC F	8
OC P	33
OC TOT	42
OTHER FOWL	7
OTHER HRN CATTLE	8
OTHERS	86
SHEEP	8
SHEEP KS	21
SUP AM	210
SUP PAT	62
SUP SC	148
SUP TOT	210
SWINE	55
SWINE KS	39
TOT DWLG OCC	42
TUR AC	11
TUR BU	611
VESS AND SHAN	1
WID FEM	3
WID MALE	7
WID TOT	10
WORKING OX	7

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC149028 — 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 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). "Isle of Anticosti, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/isle-of-anticosti-qc149028-1891/.