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Year: 1851  |  Province: Quebec  |  County: St. Maurice

Squatters in back Country, Quebec (1851 census)

Squatters in back Country was a census subdivision in St. Maurice County, Quebec, recorded in the 1851 Census of Canada with a population of 300. The administrative centroid was at approximately 47.126°N, 72.944°W.

Population

In 1851, Squatters in back Country had a population of 300.

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1851

In the 1851 census, Squatters in back Country shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1851

The 1851 census recorded 57 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (3 variables)
VariableValue
POP300
POP XX N.1300
Total population300
Ethnic origin (1 variable)
VariableValue
Number of persons whose origin is unknown300
Manufacturing & industry (49 variables)
VariableValue
Barrels of flour produced per day by grist mills reporting daily production 
Feet of lumber produced daily by saw mills reporting daily production 
Feet of lumber produced per year by saw mills reporting annual production 
Gallons of beer produced in breweries in the past year 
Number of breweries not reporting 
Number of breweries reporting 
Number of breweries returning capital 
Number of carding and fulling mills 
Number of carding and fulling mills not reporting 
Number of carding and fulling mills reporting 
Number of carding and fulling mills returning capital 
Number of employees in breweries 
Number of employees in carding and fulling mills 
Number of employees in foundries 
Number of employees in grist mills 
Number of employees in saw mills 
Number of employees in tanneries 
Number of foundries 
Number of foundries reporting 
Number of foundries returning capital 
Number of grist mills 
Number of grist mills not reporting 
Number of grist mills powered by steam 
Number of grist mills powered by water 
Number of grist mills reporting value of annual production or rent 
Number of grist mills returning capital 
Number of saw mill plants 
Number of saw mills 
Number of saw mills not reporting 
Number of saw mills powered by steam 
Number of saw mills powered by water 
Number of saw mills reporting annual production 
Number of saw mills reporting daily production 
Number of saw mills reporting value of annual production or rent 
Number of saw mills returning capital 
Number of tanneries 
Number of tanneries not reporting 
Number of tanneries reporting 
Number of tanneries returning capital 
Number of woollen factories 
Number of woollen factories reporting 
Pounds of wool produced in carding and fulling mills in the past year 
Value of annual production or rent from grist mills (pounds sterling) 
Value of annual production or rent from saw mills (pounds sterling) 
Value of capital returned by grist mills (pounds sterling) 
Value of capital returned by saw mills (pounds sterling) 
Value of iron produced in foundries in the past year (pounds sterling) 
Value of leather produced in tanneries in the past year (pounds sterling) 
Yards of cloth produced in carding and fulling mills in the past year 
Other recorded variables (4 variables)
VariableValue
C03 TOTAL300
C134 GRAND TOT300
CD NAMESt. Maurice
NOT KNOWN300

Identifiers

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). "Squatters in back Country, Quebec (1851 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/squatters-in-back-country-qc073014-1851/.