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Year: 1851  |  Province: Quebec

Squatters in back Country, Quebec (1851 census)

Squatters in back Country was a census subdivision in 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 51 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1851). This community's record includes 300 total population. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1851). This community's record includes 300 persons whose origin is unknown. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Manufacturing & industry (1851). This community's record includes   feet of lumber produced daily by saw mills reporting daily production,   gallons of beer produced in breweries,   breweries not reporting,   breweries reporting,   breweries returning capital,   carding and fulling mills,   carding and fulling mills not reporting,   carding and fulling mills reporting,   carding and fulling mills returning capital,   employees in breweries,   employees in carding and fulling mills,   employees in foundries,   employees in grist mills,   employees in saw mills,   employees in tanneries,   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 value of annual production or rent,   grist mills returning capital,   saw mill plants,   saw mills,   saw mills not reporting,   saw mills powered by steam,   saw mills powered by water,   saw mills reporting annual production,   saw mills reporting daily production,   saw mills reporting value of annual production or rent,   saw mills returning capital,   tanneries,   tanneries not reporting,   tanneries reporting,   tanneries returning capital,   woollen factories,   woollen factories reporting,   pounds of wool produced in carding and fulling mills, $  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), $  value iron produced in foundries in the past year (pounds sterling),   yards of cloth produced in carding and fulling mills.   barrels of flour produced per day by grist mills reporting daily production.   feet of lumber produced per year by saw mills reporting annual production. $  value leather produced in tanneries in the past year (pounds sterling). (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

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/.