La Présentation, Quebec (1891 census)

La Présentation was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,285. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3212031. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.680°N, 73.060°W.

Population

In 1891, La Présentation had a population of 1,285: 643 male and 642 female residents.

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 1891

In the 1891 census, La Présentation shared boundaries with:

• Notre-Dame de St. Hyacinthe
• St. Barnabé
• St. Charles
• St. Denis
• St. Jude
• Ste. Marie Madeleine

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 82 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 1,285 total population, 643 males, 642 females, 446 married persons, 239 families, 223 married females, 223 married males, 46 widowed persons, 29 widowed females, 17 widowed males, 5.40 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 793 single persons under 18, 403 single males under 18, 390 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 1,282 French Canadians, 3 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 223 houses, 223 occupied houses, 203 houses built of wood, 175 houses of 1 story, 60 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 57 houses of 3 rooms, 48 houses of 2 stories, 39 houses of 5 rooms, 32 houses of 4 rooms, 30 houses of 2 rooms, 28 uninhabited houses, 18 houses built of brick, 3 houses under construction, 2 houses built of stone, 2 houses of 1 room, 2 houses of over 15 rooms, 1 houses of 11 to 15 rooms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 33,427 pounds of homemade butter, 31,715 bushels of oats, 23,194 acres of land in farms, 16,729 acres of improved land in farms, 14,463 bushels of potatoes, 11,813 acres of farmland under crops, 7,288 bushels of barley, 6,801 chickens, 6,465 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 6,288 bushels of peas, 4,881 acres of farmland in pasture, 4,282 acres of hay crops, 3,865 acres of oats, 3,215 tons of hay, 2,729 bushels of spring wheat, 2,623 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 1,817 bushels of buckwheat, 1,153 milk cows, 683 acres of barley, 682 bushels of corn, 609 swine slaughtered or sold, 527 other cattle, 502 sheep, 485 horses aged over 3 years, 480 turkeys, 465 swine, 463 acres of wheat, 460 bushels of turnips, 446 sheep slaughtered or sold, 371 cattle killed or sold, 327 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 318 geese, 249 other fowl, 215 horses aged 3 years and under, 193 occupants of farms, 176 farm occupants who own their land, 140 acres of potatoes, 78 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 64 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 39 bushels of beans, 35 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 34 ducks, 26 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 25 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 17 farm occupants who rent their land, 13 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 12 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 4 oxen, 3 acres of turnips. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 1 person connected to this place who were alive in 1891, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC185001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC091001_1881 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3212031
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Pr%C3%A9sentation
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Pr%C3%A9sentation

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). "La Présentation, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/la-pr-sentation-qc185001-1891/.