Rivière Ste. Marguerite, Quebec (1851 census)

Rivière Ste. Marguerite was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1851 Census of Canada with a population of 47. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.270°N, 69.905°W.

Population

In 1851, Rivière Ste. Marguerite had a population of 47: 31 male and 16 female residents.

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 Saguenay and Rivière Ste. Marguerite, 1861 (46.1% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1851

In the 1851 census, Rivière Ste. Marguerite shared boundaries with:

• NO DATA
• Tadousac, Township

Full census record, 1851

The 1851 census recorded 81 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1851). This community's record includes 47 total population, 31 males, 23 single males, Male members of the family who are present: 22, Female members of the family who are present: 16, 16 females, Males present who are not members of the family: 9, 8 married females, 8 married males, 8 single females, 6 families. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1851). This community's record includes 47 French Canadians. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1851). This community's record includes 700 pounds of homemade butter, 110 bushels of potatoes, 60 pounds of maple sugar, 51 bushels of wheat, 35 acres of land in farms, 34 bushels of oats, 32 bushels of barley, 29 acres of farmland under crops, 29 acres of farmland under cultivation, 28 bushels of rye, 25 sheep, 20 pounds of flax or hemp, 18 bushels of peas, 16 pounds of wool produced on farms, 9 acres of wheat, 9 occupants of farms, 9 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 9 swine, 8 milk cows, 7 horses, 6 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 5 acres of barley, 5 acres of oats, 4 acres of rye, 4 calves and heifers, 3 acres of peas, 3 acres of potatoes, 3 barrels of pork, 1 bulls, oxen, or steers. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V2T6.)

Manufacturing & industry (1851). This community's record includes 8,000 saw mills reporting daily production, 20 yards of flannel, 20 yards of fulled cloth, 6 saw mills reporting value of annual production or rent, 1 saw mills, 1 saw mills powered by water,   feet of lumber produced daily by saw mills reporting daily production, Logs produced by saw mills reporting production by number of logs:  ,   employees in carding and fulling mills,   employees in grist mills,   employees in saw mills,   foundries,   foundries reporting,   foundries returning capital,   grist mills,   grist mills not reporting,   grist mills powered by steam,   grist mills powered by water,   grist mills reporting annual production,   grist mills reporting daily production,   grist mills reporting value of annual production or rent,   grist mills reporting weekly production,   grist mills returning capital,   saw mill plants,   saw mills not reporting,   saw mills powered by steam,   saw mills reporting annual production,   saw mills reporting production by number of logs,   saw mills returning capital,   tanneries,   tanneries not reporting, $  value annual production or rent from grist mills (pounds sterling), $  value annual production or rent from saw mills (pounds sterling), $  value capital returned by grist mills (pounds sterling), $  value capital returned by saw mills (pounds sterling),   yards of cloth produced in carding and fulling mills.   barrels of flour produced per day by grist mills reporting daily production.   barrels of flour produced per week by grist mills reporting weekly production.   barrels of flour produced per year by grist mills reporting annual production.   feet of lumber produced per year by saw mills reporting annual production. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V2T6; V2T7.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC074015 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC074015 — 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 1851 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). "Rivière Ste. Marguerite, Quebec (1851 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/rivi-re-ste-marguerite-qc074015-1851/.