Year: 1881
| Province: Quebec
| County: Gaspé
L’Anse du Cap, Quebec (1881 census)
L’Anse du Cap was a census subdivision in Gaspé County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,490. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.459°N, 64.407°W.
Population
In 1881, L’Anse du Cap had a population of 1,490: 782 male and 708 female residents. Population density was 28.5 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, L’Anse du Cap shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 80 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 243 |
| Number of families | 243 |
| Number of females | 708 |
| Number of males | 782 |
| Number of married females | 203 |
| Number of married males | 206 |
| Number of married persons | 409 |
| Number of widowed females | 29 |
| Number of widowed males | 14 |
| Number of widowed persons | 43 |
| POP TOT | 1,490 |
| Total population | 1,490 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 476 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 562 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 1,038 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 6 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 201 |
| Number of occupied houses | 201 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 1 |
Agriculture (18 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 614 |
| Acres of potatoes | 261 |
| Acres of wheat | 53 |
| BAR BU | 3,291 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 3,291 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 8,169 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 2 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 24,137 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 972 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 20,135 |
| HAY AC | 614 |
| HAY TONS | 1,166 |
| OAT BU | 8,169 |
| POT AC | 261 |
| POT BU | 24,137 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,166 |
| WHT AC | 53 |
| WHT SP BU | 972 |
Fisheries (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 2,313 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 210 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 1,353 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 4 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 6,168 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 2,719 |
| Number of fishing boats | 88 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 174 |
| Number of shoremen | 152 |
| Pounds of lobster canned in the past year | 42,000 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 18,889 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 10 |
Other recorded variables (31 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 2,313 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 174 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 88 |
| C UNMD F | 476 |
| C UNMD M | 562 |
| C UNMD TOT | 1,038 |
| CD NAME | Gaspé |
| COD DX K | 18,889 |
| D OCC | 201 |
| FEMALE | 708 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 2,719 |
| H CON | 6 |
| H INHAB | 201 |
| H UNINH | 1 |
| HAD DX K | 10 |
| LOB XC P | 42,000 |
| MALE | 782 |
| MCK XB Q | 210 |
| MD F | 203 |
| MD M | 206 |
| MD TOT | 409 |
| NET XX F | 6,168 |
| NUMBER CD | 39 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 1,353 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 2 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 152 |
| SLM XB Q | 4 |
| TUR BU | 20,135 |
| WID F | 29 |
| WID M | 14 |
| WID TOT | 43 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
QC039016 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_QC056002 — 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). "L’Anse du Cap, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/l-anse-du-cap-qc039016-1881/.