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Year: 1881  |  Province: Quebec

Montréal, St. Antoine, Ward—Quartier, Quebec (1881 census)

Montréal, St. Antoine, Ward—Quartier was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 33,845. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.497°N, 73.577°W.

Population

In 1881, Montréal, St. Antoine, Ward—Quartier had a population of 33,845: 15,087 male and 18,758 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
188133,845
189144,626

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.

Earlier boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Montréal, St. Antoine, Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 25 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 33,845 total population, 18,758 females, 15,087 males, 10,287 married persons, 6,115 families, 5,157 married females, 5,130 married males, 1,802 widowed persons, 1,350 widowed females, 452 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 21,756 single persons under 18, 12,251 single females under 18, 9,505 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 5,677 inhabited houses, 5,677 occupied houses, 336 uninhabited houses, 69 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 1,412 bushels of potatoes, 511 bushels of turnips, 300 bushels of oats, 239 bushels of other root crops, 39 bushels of peas and beans, 26 tons of hay, 13 acres of potatoes, 11 acres of hay crops. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 33,847 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

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). "Montréal, St. Antoine, Ward—Quartier, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/montr-al-st-antoine-ward-quartier-qc090008-1881/.