Québec, ward-quartier St. Jean, Quebec (1911 census)

Name: Québec, ward-quartier St. Jean (1911)
Address: Quebec, CA

Québec, ward-quartier St. Jean was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 9,087. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.811°N, 71.222°W.

Population

In 1911, Québec, ward-quartier St. Jean had a population of 9,087: 3,971 male and 5,116 female residents. Population density was 70992.2 people per square mile.

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.

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD became part of Québec, C, 1921 (1.2% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, Québec, ward-quartier St. Jean shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 41 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 70,992.19 population per square mile, 9,087 total population, 5,116 females in the population, 3,971 males in the population, 3,479 single (never-married) females, 2,488 single (never-married) males, 1,589 families, 1,348 married males, 1,315 married females, 314 widowed females, 119 widowed males, 82 area in acres, 15 males with marital status not given, 4 females with marital status not given, 4 legally separated females, 1 legally separated males, 0.13 area in square miles. 9,751 population in the previous census (1901 reference column included in 1911 V1T1). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Ethnic origin (1911). This community's record includes 8,371 persons of French origin, 332 persons of British origin (Irish), 224 persons of British origin (English), 84 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 31 persons of German origin, 14 persons of Chinese origin, 8 persons of Belgian origin, 7 persons of Scandinavian origin, 3 persons of Italian origin, 1 persons of Dutch origin, 1 persons of Swiss origin. 2 persons recorded under the 1911/1921 official census category "Negro"; refers to people of African descent. Term is now considered offensive and is preserved here only as the historical source label. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

Religion (1911). This community's record includes 8,734 Roman Catholics, 221 Anglicans (Church of England), 63 Presbyterians, 59 Methodists, 9 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified, 3 Baptists, 1 adherents of various sects (residual category in 1911), 1 Lutherans, 1 Mennonites, 1 Protestants (general / no denomination specified). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2; V2T7.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 1,198 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC187004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC187004 — 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 1911 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). "Québec, ward-quartier St. Jean, Quebec (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/qu-bec-ward-quartier-st-jean-qc187004-1911/.