Natashkwan, Quebec (1881 census)

Name: Natashkwan (1881)
Address: Quebec, CA

Natashkwan was a census subdivision in Chicoutimi & Saguenay County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 480. The administrative centroid was at approximately 50.214°N, 61.596°W.

Population

In 1881, Natashkwan had a population of 480: 246 male and 234 female residents. Population density was 2.8 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	358
1881	480
1891	365
1901	804

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, Natashkwan shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 74 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	94
Number of families	94
Number of females	234
Number of males	246
Number of married females	86
Number of married males	87
Number of married persons	173
Number of widowed females	6
Number of widowed males	6
Number of widowed persons	12
POP TOT	480
Total population	480

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	142
Number of single males under 18	153
Number of single persons under 18	295

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	3
Number of inhabited houses	90
Number of occupied houses	90
Number of uninhabited houses	5

Agriculture (9 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	58
Acres of potatoes	38
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	1,733
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	187
HAY AC	58
HAY TONS	74
POT AC	38
POT BU	1,733
Tons of hay produced in the past year	74

Fisheries (14 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of halibut produced in the past year	13
Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year	1,422
Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year	8
Barrels of other fish produced in the past year	256
Barrels of salmon produced in the past year	156
Barrels of trout produced in the past year	7
Fathoms of fishing nets	5,324
Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year	7,297
Number of fishing boats	151
Number of fishing vessels	4
Number of men on fishing boats	202
Number of men on fishing vessels	28
Number of shoremen	210
Quintals of cod produced in the past year	15,925

Other recorded variables (32 variables)

Variable	Value
BBL HERR OR ALE	1,422
BOAT MEN Q	202
BOATS FOR FISH	151
C UNMD F	142
C UNMD M	153
C UNMD TOT	295
CD NAME	Chicoutimi & Saguenay
COD DX K	15,925
D OCC	90
FEMALE	234
GAL FISH OIL	7,297
H CON	3
H INHAB	90
H UNINH	5
HAL XB Q	13
MALE	246
MCK XB Q	8
MD F	86
MD M	87
MD TOT	173
NET XX F	5,324
NUMBER CD	76
OTHFISH XB Q	256
SHOREMEN XX Q	210
SLM XB Q	156
TRT XB Q	7
TUR BU	187
VESSEL MEN Q	28
VESSEL XX Q	4
WID F	6
WID M	6
WID TOT	12

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC076009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC149050 — 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). "Natashkwan, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/natashkwan-qc076009-1881/.