Year: 1881
| Province: Quebec
| County: Temiscouata
Notre Dame du Portage, Quebec (1881 census)
Notre Dame du Portage was a census subdivision in Temiscouata County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 734. The administrative centroid was at approximately 47.761°N, 69.576°W.
Population
In 1881, Notre Dame du Portage had a population of 734: 363 male and 371 female residents. Population density was 64.6 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, Notre Dame du Portage 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 (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 124 |
| Number of families | 124 |
| Number of females | 371 |
| Number of males | 363 |
| Number of married females | 105 |
| Number of married males | 108 |
| Number of married persons | 213 |
| Number of widowed females | 10 |
| Number of widowed males | 9 |
| Number of widowed persons | 19 |
| POP TOT | 734 |
| Total population | 734 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 256 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 246 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 502 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 5 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 102 |
| Number of occupied houses | 102 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 25 |
Agriculture (27 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,720 |
| Acres of potatoes | 227 |
| Acres of wheat | 655 |
| BAR BU | 706 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 706 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 165 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 14 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 47 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 8,460 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 202 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 524 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 27,236 |
| Bushels of rye produced in the past year | 1,085 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 2,733 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 867 |
| BWT BU | 165 |
| CRN BU | 47 |
| HAY AC | 1,720 |
| HAY TONS | 1,437 |
| OAT BU | 8,460 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 524 |
| POT AC | 227 |
| POT BU | 27,236 |
| RYE BU | 1,085 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,437 |
| WHT AC | 655 |
| WHT SP BU | 2,733 |
Fisheries (7 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 38 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 75 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 41 |
| Barrels of sardines produced in the past year | 25 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 200 |
| Number of shoremen | 2 |
| Quintals of fascines fish produced in the past year | 27 |
Other recorded variables (27 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 75 |
| C UNMD F | 256 |
| C UNMD M | 246 |
| C UNMD TOT | 502 |
| CD NAME | Temiscouata |
| D OCC | 102 |
| EEL XB Q | 38 |
| FASCINE FISH Q | 27 |
| FEMALE | 371 |
| GRA BU | 14 |
| H CON | 5 |
| H INHAB | 102 |
| H UNINH | 25 |
| MALE | 363 |
| MD F | 105 |
| MD M | 108 |
| MD TOT | 213 |
| NET XX F | 200 |
| NUMBER CD | 41 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 41 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 202 |
| SAR XB Q | 25 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 2 |
| TUR BU | 867 |
| WID F | 10 |
| WID M | 9 |
| WID TOT | 19 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
QC041003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_QC095006 — 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). "Notre Dame du Portage, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/notre-dame-du-portage-qc041003-1881/.