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Year: 1871  |  Province: Quebec

Princeville, Village, Quebec (1871 census)

Princeville, Village was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 511. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.169°N, 71.879°W.

Population

In 1871, Princeville, Village had a population of 511: 249 male and 262 female residents. Population density was 477.7 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1871511
1881699
1891837
1901742
1911752
1921869

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 1871

In the 1871 census, Princeville, Village shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 51 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (10 variables)
VariableValue
Number of families98
Number of females262
Number of males249
Number of married females82
Number of married males82
Number of married persons164
Number of widowed females9
Number of widowed males5
Number of widowed persons14
Total population511
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18171
Number of single males under 18162
Number of single persons under 18333
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
VariableValue
Number of houses under construction2
Number of inhabited houses86
Number of occupied houses86
Number of uninhabited houses5
Agriculture (10 variables)
VariableValue
BAR BU71
BWT BU171
CRN BU73
HAY AC233
HAY TONS230
OAT BU3,259
PEA BU169
POT AC30
POT BU4,273
WHT SP BU383
Other recorded variables (24 variables)
VariableValue
ACRES45
BEING BUILT2
BEN BU25
CD137
CSD9
FAMILIES98
FEMALE262
GRA BU5
HOUSES OCCUPIED86
INHABITED86
MALE249
MARRIED F82
MARRIED M82
MARRIED TOTAL164
POPULATION511
ROOT BU276
SINGLE F171
SINGLE M162
SINGLE TOTAL333
TUR BU84
UNINHABITED5
WIDOWED F9
WIDOWED M5
WIDOWED TOTAL14

Identifiers

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). "Princeville, Village, Quebec (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/princeville-village-qc137009-1871/.