Year: 1881
| Province: Quebec
| County: Chicoutimi & Saguenay
Manicouagan, Quebec (1881 census)
Manicouagan was a census subdivision in Chicoutimi & Saguenay County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 120. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.123°N, 68.312°W.
Population
In 1881, Manicouagan had a population of 120: 64 male and 56 female residents. Population density was 1.9 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, Manicouagan 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 (11 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 18 |
| Number of families | 18 |
| Number of females | 56 |
| Number of males | 64 |
| Number of married females | 15 |
| Number of married males | 15 |
| Number of married persons | 30 |
| Number of widowed females | 2 |
| Number of widowed persons | 2 |
| POP TOT | 120 |
| Total population | 120 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 39 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 49 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 88 |
Buildings & housing (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of inhabited houses | 18 |
| Number of occupied houses | 18 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 3 |
Agriculture (23 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 74 |
| Acres of potatoes | 25 |
| Acres of wheat | 3 |
| BAR BU | 463 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 463 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 187 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 594 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 11 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 2,501 |
| Bushels of rye produced in the past year | 22 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 33 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 345 |
| BWT BU | 187 |
| HAY AC | 74 |
| HAY TONS | 154 |
| OAT BU | 594 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 11 |
| POT AC | 25 |
| POT BU | 2,501 |
| RYE BU | 22 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 154 |
| WHT AC | 3 |
| WHT SP BU | 33 |
Fisheries (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 20 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 10 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 9 |
| Barrels of sardines produced in the past year | 10 |
| Barrels of trout produced in the past year | 6 |
| Barrels of whitefish produced in the past year | 2 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 9 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 5 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 10 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 6 |
| Quintals of fascines fish produced in the past year | 5 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 4 |
Other recorded variables (28 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 20 |
| C UNMD F | 39 |
| C UNMD M | 49 |
| C UNMD TOT | 88 |
| CD NAME | Chicoutimi & Saguenay |
| COD DX K | 6 |
| D OCC | 18 |
| FASCINE FISH Q | 5 |
| FEMALE | 56 |
| H INHAB | 18 |
| H UNINH | 3 |
| HAD DX K | 4 |
| MALE | 64 |
| MD F | 15 |
| MD M | 15 |
| MD TOT | 30 |
| NET XX F | 9 |
| NUMBER CD | 76 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 10 |
| SAR XB Q | 10 |
| SLM XB Q | 9 |
| TRT XB Q | 6 |
| TUR BU | 345 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 10 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 5 |
| WHTFISH XB Q | 2 |
| WID F | 2 |
| WID TOT | 2 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
QC076004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_QC149046 — 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). "Manicouagan, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/manicouagan-qc076004-1881/.