Longueuil, Town—Ville, Quebec (1891 census)

Name: Longueuil, Town—Ville (1891)
Address: Quebec, CA

Longueuil, Town—Ville was a town in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 2,757. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q139398. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.536°N, 73.504°W.

Population

In 1891, Longueuil, Town—Ville had a population of 2,757: 1,313 male and 1,444 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1851	1,496
1861	2,816
1871	2,083
1881	2,355
1891	2,757
1901	2,835
1911	3,972
1921	4,682

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, Longueuil, Town—Ville shared boundaries with:

Longueuil

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 154 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.40
FAM NO	512
Number of families	512
Number of females	1,444
Number of males	1,313
Number of married females	454
Number of married males	457
Number of married persons	911
Number of widowed females	88
Number of widowed males	36
Number of widowed persons	124
POP F	1,444
POP M	1,313
POP TOT	2,757
Total population	2,757

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	902
Number of single males under 18	820
Number of single persons under 18	1,722

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	2,411
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	346

Buildings & housing (19 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	499
Number of houses built of brick	125
Number of houses built of stone	23
Number of houses built of wood	350
Number of houses of 1 room	2
Number of houses of 1 story	225
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	35
Number of houses of 2 rooms	15
Number of houses of 2 stories	257
Number of houses of 3 rooms	53
Number of houses of 3 stories	15
Number of houses of 4 rooms	79
Number of houses of 5 rooms	70
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	226
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	1
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	18
Number of houses under construction	5
Number of occupied houses	499
Number of uninhabited houses	29

Agriculture (51 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	8
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	79
Acres of farmland in pasture	92
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	32
Acres of farmland under crops	186
Acres of hay crops	98
Acres of improved land in farms	357
Acres of land in farms	389
Acres of oats	68
Acres of potatoes	14
BAR AC	8
BAR BU	100
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	100
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	9
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	93
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	1,050
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	15
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	1,352
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	34
CRN BU	93
HAY AC	98
HAY TONS	109
Number of chickens	2,146
Number of ducks	58
Number of employees on farms	2
Number of farm occupants who own their land	146
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	136
Number of geese	4
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	2
Number of horses aged over 3 years	110
Number of milk cows	104
Number of occupants of farms	284
Number of other cattle	1
Number of other fowl	35
Number of oxen	2
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	4
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	278
Number of sheep	10
Number of swine	40
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	56
Number of turkeys	6
OAT AC	68
OAT BU	1,050
PEA BU	15
POT AC	14
POT BU	1,352
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year	40
Pounds of homemade butter	6,802
Tons of hay produced in the past year	109

Other recorded variables (64 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	1
A 11 50	4
A 51 100	1
BEN BU	9
BUTTER LB	6,802
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	902
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	820
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	1,722
COLTS FILLIES	2
DUCKS	58
FAMILIES	512
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.40
FINE WOOL LB	40
FRN CA	2,411
GEESE	4
HENS AND CHKN	2,146
HORSES OVR THREE	110
HOUSES	499
HOUSES B	125
HOUSES CON	5
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	35
HOUSES FIVE RM	70
HOUSES FOUR RM	79
HOUSES ONE RM	2
HOUSES ONE STRY	225
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	1
HOUSES S	23
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	226
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	18
HOUSES THREE RM	53
HOUSES THREE STRY	15
HOUSES TWO RM	15
HOUSES TWO STRY	257
HOUSES UNINH	29
HOUSES W	350
INF 11 A	278
MD FEM	454
MD MALE	457
MD TOT	911
MILK COWS	104
NAME CD	Chambly
OC E	2
OC F	136
OC P	146
OC TOT	284
OTHER FOWL	35
OTHER HRN CATTLE	1
OTHERS	346
SHEEP	10
SUP AM	357
SUP FOR	32
SUP JV	79
SUP PAT	92
SUP SC	186
SUP TOT	389
SWINE	40
SWINE KS	56
TOT DWLG OCC	499
TUR BU	34
TURKEY	6
WID FEM	88
WID MALE	36
WID TOT	124
WORKING OX	2

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC145007 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC046007 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q139398

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). "Longueuil, Town—Ville, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/longueuil-town-ville-qc145007-1891/.