Les Eboulements, Quebec (1881 census)

Les Eboulements was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,518. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3236497. The administrative centroid was at approximately 47.511°N, 70.332°W.

Population

In 1881, Les Eboulements had a population of 2,518: 1,248 male and 1,270 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).

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.

Later boundary forms

• In a later year, this CSD contained Les Eboulements, 1891 (90.0% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Les Eboulements shared boundaries with:

• Baie St. Paul
• St. Hilarion
• St. Irénée

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 39 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 2,518 total population, 1,270 females, 1,248 males, 767 married persons, 412 families, 384 married females, 383 married males, 78 widowed persons, 49 widowed females, 29 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,673 single persons under 18, 837 single females under 18, 836 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 406 inhabited houses, 406 occupied houses, 37 uninhabited houses, 6 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 28,382 bushels of potatoes, 17,394 bushels of oats, 12,578 bushels of spring wheat, 6,732 bushels of rye, 4,867 bushels of barley, 3,579 bushels of buckwheat, 2,998 bushels of peas and beans, 1,512 tons of hay, 1,137 acres of hay crops, 690 acres of wheat, 332 bushels of turnips, 225 bushels of other root crops, 221 acres of potatoes, 11 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 1,578 barrels of other fish, 182 barrels of eels, 93 quintals of fascines fish, 24 barrels of herring or alewives, 10 gallons of fish oil, 2 barrels of trout, 1 fathoms of fishing nets. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 184 barrels of sardines — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 2,518 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC077009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC048003_1891 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3236497
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_%C3%89boulements
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_%C3%89boulements

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). "Les Eboulements, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/les-eboulements-qc077009-1881/.