Laterrière, Quebec (1881 census)

Name: Laterrière (1881)
Address: Quebec, CA

Laterrière was a census subdivision in Chicoutimi & Saguenay County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,320. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.289°N, 71.159°W.

Population

In 1881, Laterrière had a population of 1,320: 663 male and 657 female residents. Population density was 14.0 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1851	367
1861	816
1871	1,319
1881	1,320
1891	1,006
1901	895

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, Laterrière shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 68 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	172
Number of families	172
Number of females	657
Number of males	663
Number of married females	187
Number of married males	188
Number of married persons	375
Number of widowed females	24
Number of widowed males	12
Number of widowed persons	36
POP TOT	1,320
Total population	1,320

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	446
Number of single males under 18	463
Number of single persons under 18	909

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	1
Number of inhabited houses	153
Number of occupied houses	153
Number of uninhabited houses	19

Agriculture (27 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	1,469
Acres of potatoes	166
Acres of wheat	1,066
BAR BU	1,921
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	1,921
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	1,581
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	24
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	7
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	32,015
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	463
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	4,382
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	19,632
Bushels of rye produced in the past year	380
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	9,001
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	4,753
BWT BU	1,581
CRN BU	7
HAY AC	1,469
HAY TONS	1,514
OAT BU	32,015
PEA AND BEN BU	4,382
POT AC	166
POT BU	19,632
RYE BU	380
Tons of hay produced in the past year	1,514
WHT AC	1,066
WHT SP BU	9,001

Fisheries (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Barrels of trout produced in the past year	4

Other recorded variables (21 variables)

Variable	Value
C UNMD F	446
C UNMD M	463
C UNMD TOT	909
CD NAME	Chicoutimi & Saguenay
D OCC	153
FEMALE	657
GRA BU	24
H CON	1
H INHAB	153
H UNINH	19
MALE	663
MD F	187
MD M	188
MD TOT	375
NUMBER CD	76
OTHR ROOT BU	463
TRT XB Q	4
TUR BU	4,753
WID F	24
WID M	12
WID TOT	36

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC076018 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC149015 — 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). "Laterrière, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/laterri-re-qc076018-1881/.