Shipton, Quebec (1911 census)

Shipton was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 1,957. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q63244603. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.769°N, 72.008°W.

Population

In 1911, Shipton had a population of 1,957: 1,025 male and 932 female residents. Population density was 27.0 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).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, Shipton shared boundaries with:

• Asbestos, VL
• Cleveland
• Danville, VL
• Kingsey
• Kingsey Falls
• St. George de Windsor
• Tingwick
• Wotton

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 33 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 46,316 area in acres, 1,957 total population, 1,025 males in the population, 932 females in the population, 655 single (never-married) males, 568 single (never-married) females, 358 families, 323 married males, 319 married females, 72.37 area in square miles, 41 widowed males, 40 widowed females, 27.04 population per square mile, 6 males with marital status not given, 3 females with marital status not given, 2 legally separated females. 1,810 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 1,039 persons of French origin, 522 persons of British origin (English), 186 persons of British origin (Irish), 178 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 4 persons of British origin (other), 1 persons of Belgian origin, 1 persons of Dutch origin. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

Religion (1911). This community's record includes 1,124 Roman Catholics, 337 Anglicans (Church of England), 153 Methodists, 142 Congregationalists, 98 Adventists, 97 Presbyterians, 26 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified, 5 adherents of various sects (residual category in 1911). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2; V2T7.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 347 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC192017 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC192017 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q63244603

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). "Shipton, Quebec (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/shipton-qc192017-1911/.