Melbourne, Village, Quebec (1891 census)

Name: Melbourne, Village (1891)
Address: Quebec, CA

Melbourne, Village was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 289. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.658°N, 72.154°W.

Population

In 1891, Melbourne, Village had a population of 289: 136 male and 153 female residents. Population density was 405.6 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1861	243
1871	270
1881	305
1891	289
1901	224
1911	314
1921	340

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, Melbourne, Village shared boundaries with:

Melbourne, Brompton, Gore and New Rockland, Village

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 156 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.50
FAM NO	64
Number of families	64
Number of females	153
Number of males	136
Number of married females	49
Number of married males	48
Number of married persons	97
Number of widowed females	18
Number of widowed males	4
Number of widowed persons	22
POP F	153
POP M	136
POP TOT	289
Total population	289

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	86
Number of single males under 18	84
Number of single persons under 18	170

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	27
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	262

Buildings & housing (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	63
Number of houses built of brick	15
Number of houses built of wood	48
Number of houses of 1 room	3
Number of houses of 1 story	49
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	3
Number of houses of 2 rooms	3
Number of houses of 2 stories	14
Number of houses of 3 rooms	1
Number of houses of 4 rooms	5
Number of houses of 5 rooms	4
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	41
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	3
Number of occupied houses	63
Number of uninhabited houses	2

Agriculture (57 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	7
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	18
Acres of farmland in pasture	219
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	509
Acres of farmland under crops	276
Acres of hay crops	256
Acres of improved land in farms	513
Acres of land in farms	1,022
Acres of oats	25
Acres of potatoes	6
Acres of turnips	2
Acres of wheat	2
BAR AC	7
BAR BU	230
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	230
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	10
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	101
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	825
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	1,090
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	25
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	661
BWT BU	101
HAY AC	256
HAY TONS	324
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	1
Number of chickens	193
Number of ducks	3
Number of employees on farms	1
Number of farm occupants who own their land	21
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	2
Number of geese	2
Number of horses aged over 3 years	38
Number of milk cows	26
Number of occupants of farms	24
Number of other cattle	6
Number of other fowl	6
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	3
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	15
Number of sheep	42
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	6
Number of swine	15
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	11
Number of turkeys	8
OAT AC	25
OAT BU	825
POT AC	6
POT BU	1,090
Pounds of cheese produced on farms in the past year	245
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	200
Pounds of homemade butter	1,075
Tons of hay produced in the past year	324
WHT AC	2
WHT SP BU	25

Other recorded variables (64 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	1
A 11 50	4
A 201 PL	1
A 51 100	3
BEN BU	10
BUTTER LB	1,075
CATTLE KS	1
CHEESE LB	245
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	86
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	84
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	170
COARSE WOOL LB	200
DUCKS	3
FAMILIES	64
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.50
FRN CA	27
GEESE	2
HENS AND CHKN	193
HORSES OVR THREE	38
HOUSES	63
HOUSES B	15
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	3
HOUSES FIVE RM	4
HOUSES FOUR RM	5
HOUSES ONE RM	3
HOUSES ONE STRY	49
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	41
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	3
HOUSES THREE RM	1
HOUSES TWO RM	3
HOUSES TWO STRY	14
HOUSES UNINH	2
HOUSES W	48
INF 11 A	15
MD FEM	49
MD MALE	48
MD TOT	97
MILK COWS	26
NAME CD	Richmond and Wolfe
OC E	1
OC F	2
OC P	21
OC TOT	24
OTHER FOWL	6
OTHER HRN CATTLE	6
OTHERS	262
SHEEP	42
SHEEP KS	6
SUP AM	513
SUP FOR	509
SUP JV	18
SUP PAT	219
SUP SC	276
SUP TOT	1,022
SWINE	15
SWINE KS	11
TOT DWLG OCC	63
TUR AC	2
TUR BU	661
TURKEY	8
WID FEM	18
WID MALE	4
WID TOT	22
WORKING OX	2

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC182009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC083016 — 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 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). "Melbourne, Village, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/melbourne-village-qc182009-1891/.