St. Ambroise, Quebec (1881 census)

St. Ambroise was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 3,513. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q112911857. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.874°N, 71.411°W.

Population

In 1881, St. Ambroise had a population of 3,513: 1,727 male and 1,786 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 contained St. Ambroise, Village, 1891 (4.1% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, St. Ambroise shared boundaries with:

• Ancienne Lorette
• Charlesbourg, VL
• Québec, St. Roch S
• St. Edmond de Stoneham
• St. Gabriel de Valcartier
• Ste. Catherine

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 32 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 3,513 total population, 1,786 females, 1,727 males, 1,204 married persons, 696 families, 603 married females, 601 married males, 160 widowed persons, 95 widowed females, 65 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 2,149 single persons under 18, 1,088 single females under 18, 1,061 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 578 inhabited houses, 578 occupied houses, 30 uninhabited houses, 8 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 51,131 bushels of potatoes, 41,606 bushels of oats, 4,559 tons of hay, 4,557 bushels of other root crops, 3,285 acres of hay crops, 2,432 bushels of turnips, 1,387 bushels of buckwheat, 973 bushels of peas and beans, 796 bushels of corn, 698 bushels of barley, 372 acres of potatoes, 200 bushels of spring wheat, 179 bushels of winter wheat, 40 acres of wheat, 20 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 3,513 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC080006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC080006 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q112911857

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1881 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). "St. Ambroise, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-ambroise-qc080006-1881/.