Year: 1871
| Province: Quebec
Philipsburg, Village, Quebec (1871 census)
Philipsburg, Village was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 272. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.043°N, 73.075°W.
Population
In 1871, Philipsburg, Village had a population of 272: 132 male and 140 female residents. Population density was 224.5 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).
Full census record, 1871
The 1871 census recorded 47 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (10 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of families | 60 |
| Number of females | 140 |
| Number of males | 132 |
| Number of married females | 51 |
| Number of married males | 47 |
| Number of married persons | 98 |
| Number of widowed females | 10 |
| Number of widowed males | 2 |
| Number of widowed persons | 12 |
| Total population | 272 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 79 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 83 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 162 |
Buildings & housing (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of inhabited houses | 60 |
| Number of occupied houses | 60 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 1 |
Agriculture (10 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BAR BU | 42 |
| BWT BU | 373 |
| CRN BU | 533 |
| HAY AC | 253 |
| HAY TONS | 402 |
| OAT BU | 1,320 |
| PEA BU | 9 |
| POT AC | 13 |
| POT BU | 1,833 |
| WHT SP BU | 100 |
Other recorded variables (21 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BEN BU | 115 |
| CD | 125 |
| CSD | 4 |
| FAMILIES | 60 |
| FEMALE | 140 |
| HOUSES OCCUPIED | 60 |
| INHABITED | 60 |
| MALE | 132 |
| MARRIED F | 51 |
| MARRIED M | 47 |
| MARRIED TOTAL | 98 |
| POPULATION | 272 |
| ROOT BU | 533 |
| SINGLE F | 79 |
| SINGLE M | 83 |
| SINGLE TOTAL | 162 |
| TUR BU | 451 |
| UNINHABITED | 1 |
| WIDOWED F | 10 |
| WIDOWED M | 2 |
| WIDOWED TOTAL | 12 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
QC125004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_QC072019 — 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 1871 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). "Philipsburg, Village, Quebec (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/philipsburg-village-qc125004-1871/.