Rimouski, Town—Ville, Quebec (1891 census)

Rimouski, Town—Ville was a town in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,429. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q1336. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.448°N, 68.528°W.

Population

In 1891, Rimouski, Town—Ville had a population of 1,429: 628 male and 801 female residents.

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 1891

In the 1891 census, Rimouski, Town—Ville shared boundaries with:

• Notre-Dame du Sacré-Coeur
• Rimouski

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 82 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 1,429 total population, 801 females, 628 males, 351 married persons, 206 families, 176 married females, 175 married males, 75 widowed persons, 58 widowed females, 17 widowed males, 6.90 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 1,003 single persons under 18, 567 single females under 18, 436 single males under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 1,409 French Canadians, 20 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 205 houses, 205 occupied houses, 201 houses built of wood, 89 houses of 1 story, 63 houses of 2 stories, 54 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 53 houses of 3 stories, 37 houses of 4 rooms, 28 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 22 houses of 2 rooms, 20 houses of 5 rooms, 19 houses of 3 rooms, 16 houses of over 15 rooms, 9 houses of 1 room, 3 houses built of stone, 2 uninhabited houses, 1 houses built of brick, 1 houses under construction. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 12,403 bushels of potatoes, 3,190 acres of land in farms, 2,685 pounds of homemade butter, 2,232 bushels of turnips, 2,170 acres of improved land in farms, 1,309 acres of farmland under crops, 1,274 bushels of oats, 1,020 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 1,001 chickens, 801 acres of farmland in pasture, 792 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 500 tons of hay, 491 bushels of spring wheat, 384 bushels of peas, 304 acres of hay crops, 256 sheep, 189 bushels of barley, 179 milk cows, 127 bushels of corn, 117 swine, 116 occupants of farms, 113 acres of oats, 95 horses aged over 3 years, 90 swine slaughtered or sold, 89 acres of potatoes, 89 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 88 acres of wheat, 88 sheep slaughtered or sold, 87 farm occupants who own their land, 60 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 58 ducks, 50 bushels of winter wheat, 46 geese, 44 other cattle, 39 cattle killed or sold, 29 farm occupants who rent their land, 28 other fowl, 25 acres of barley, 21 bushels of beans, 18 oxen, 11 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 9 horses aged 3 years and under, 7 acres of turnips, 6 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 6 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 4 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 1 bushels of buckwheat, 1 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 1 person connected to this place who were alive in 1891, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC183009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC188008 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q1336
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimouski
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimouski

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1891 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). "Rimouski, Town—Ville, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/rimouski-town-ville-qc183009-1891/.