Isle Ste Marguerite, Quebec (1861 census)

Name: Isle Ste Marguerite (1861)
Address: Quebec, CA

Isle Ste Marguerite was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1861 Census of Canada with a population of 8. The administrative centroid was at approximately 47.043°N, 70.623°W.

Population

In 1861, Isle Ste Marguerite had a population of 8.

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 was contained in Ile aux Canots, 1851 (72.5% share).

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD became part of Ile aux Grues, 1871 (4.6% share).

Full census record, 1861

The 1861 census recorded 37 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1861). This community's record includes 8 total population. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V1T5.)

Ethnic origin (1861). This community's record includes 8 French Canadians. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1861). This community's record includes $1,250 value farms (dollars), 800 pounds of homemade butter, 500 bushels of potatoes, $498 value all livestock, $190 value horses aged over 3 years, 120 bushels of oats, 60 acres of land in farms, 45 bushels of barley, 45 pounds of flax or hemp, 36 acres of farmland under cultivation, 36 bushels of rye, $36 value farm implements in dollars, 24 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 21 acres of farmland under crops, 20 tons of hay, 15 acres of farmland in pasture, 15 bushels of spring wheat, 10 milk cows, 7 calves and heifers, 6 barrels of pork, 6 swine, 4 acres of oats, 2 acres of barley, 2 acres of potatoes, 2 acres of rye, 2 acres of spring wheat, 2 bushels of peas, 2 horses aged over 3 years, 1 barrels of beef, 1 bulls, oxen, or steers, 1 horses aged 3 years and under, 1 occupants of farms, 1 persons living on farms between 50 and 100 acres, 1 pounds of wool produced on farms. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V2T11.)

Manufacturing & industry (1861). This community's record includes 18 yards of fulled cloth. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V2T11.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC035006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC035006 — 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 1861 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 Ste Marguerite, Quebec (1861 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/isle-ste-marguerite-qc035006-1861/.