Year: 1881
| Province: Quebec
| County: Gaspé
Mont Louis, Quebec (1881 census)
Mont Louis was a census subdivision in Gaspé County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 789. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.195°N, 65.527°W.
Population
In 1881, Mont Louis had a population of 789: 408 male and 381 female residents. Population density was 3.9 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, Mont Louis shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 94 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 136 |
| Number of families | 136 |
| Number of females | 381 |
| Number of males | 408 |
| Number of married females | 126 |
| Number of married males | 126 |
| Number of married persons | 252 |
| Number of widowed females | 7 |
| Number of widowed males | 6 |
| Number of widowed persons | 13 |
| POP TOT | 789 |
| Total population | 789 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 248 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 276 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 524 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 10 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 122 |
| Number of occupied houses | 122 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 9 |
Agriculture (27 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 350 |
| Acres of potatoes | 97 |
| Acres of wheat | 321 |
| BAR BU | 2,999 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 2,999 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 213 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 6 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 1 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 3,143 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 1,900 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 695 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 12,540 |
| Bushels of rye produced in the past year | 372 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 2,678 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 453 |
| BWT BU | 213 |
| CRN BU | 1 |
| HAY AC | 350 |
| HAY TONS | 327 |
| OAT BU | 3,143 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 695 |
| POT AC | 97 |
| POT BU | 12,540 |
| RYE BU | 372 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 327 |
| WHT AC | 321 |
| WHT SP BU | 2,678 |
Fisheries (14 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 1 |
| Barrels of halibut produced in the past year | 9 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 1,080 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 283 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 21 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 18 |
| Barrels of shad produced in the past year | 2 |
| Barrels of trout produced in the past year | 14 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 3,627 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 1,452 |
| Number of fishing boats | 135 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 163 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 7,680 |
| Quintals of fascines fish produced in the past year | 1 |
Other recorded variables (34 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 1,080 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 163 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 135 |
| C UNMD F | 248 |
| C UNMD M | 276 |
| C UNMD TOT | 524 |
| CD NAME | Gaspé |
| COD DX K | 7,680 |
| D OCC | 122 |
| EEL XB Q | 1 |
| FASCINE FISH Q | 1 |
| FEMALE | 381 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 1,452 |
| GRA BU | 6 |
| H CON | 10 |
| H INHAB | 122 |
| H UNINH | 9 |
| HAL XB Q | 9 |
| MALE | 408 |
| MCK XB Q | 283 |
| MD F | 126 |
| MD M | 126 |
| MD TOT | 252 |
| NET XX F | 3,627 |
| NUMBER CD | 39 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 21 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 1,900 |
| SHD XB Q | 2 |
| SLM XB Q | 18 |
| TRT XB Q | 14 |
| TUR BU | 453 |
| WID F | 7 |
| WID M | 6 |
| WID TOT | 13 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
QC039003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_QC154015 — 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). "Mont Louis, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/mont-louis-qc039003-1881/.