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Year: 1891  |  Province: Quebec

St. Ambroise, Village, Quebec (1891 census)

St. Ambroise, Village was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 875. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.855°N, 71.367°W.

Population

In 1891, St. Ambroise, Village had a population of 875: 393 male and 482 female residents. Population density was 365.3 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1891875
19011,555

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

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.

Earlier boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, St. Ambroise, Village shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 152 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)
VariableValue
Average size of families4.70
FAM NO188
Number of families188
Number of females482
Number of males393
Number of married females156
Number of married males154
Number of married persons310
Number of widowed females44
Number of widowed males7
Number of widowed persons51
POP F482
POP M393
POP TOT875
Total population875
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18282
Number of single males under 18232
Number of single persons under 18514
Ethnic origin (2 variables)
VariableValue
Number of French Canadians848
Number of persons who are not French Canadian27
Buildings & housing (17 variables)
VariableValue
Number of dwellings that are vessels and shanties1
Number of houses155
Number of houses built of brick2
Number of houses built of stone4
Number of houses built of wood149
Number of houses of 1 room5
Number of houses of 1 story134
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms4
Number of houses of 2 rooms20
Number of houses of 2 stories21
Number of houses of 3 rooms21
Number of houses of 4 rooms40
Number of houses of 5 rooms19
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms46
Number of houses under construction5
Number of occupied houses156
Number of uninhabited houses16
Agriculture (52 variables)
VariableValue
Acres of barley2
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards65
Acres of farmland in pasture327
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest2,687
Acres of farmland under crops603
Acres of hay crops257
Acres of improved land in farms995
Acres of land in farms3,682
Acres of oats63
Acres of potatoes56
Acres of turnips9
BAR AC2
BAR BU14
Bushels of barley produced in the past year14
Bushels of beans produced in the past year25
Bushels of corn produced in the past year9
Bushels of oats produced in the past year707
Bushels of peas produced in the past year12
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year1,827
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year229
CRN BU9
HAY AC257
HAY TONS231
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year139
Number of chickens778
Number of ducks13
Number of farm occupants who own their land89
Number of farm occupants who rent their land8
Number of geese2
Number of horses aged 3 years and under3
Number of horses aged over 3 years47
Number of milk cows65
Number of occupants of farms97
Number of other cattle21
Number of other fowl30
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres3
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres29
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres5
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres2
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres58
Number of sheep2
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold175
Number of swine29
Number of swine slaughtered or sold252
OAT AC63
OAT BU707
PEA BU12
POT AC56
POT BU1,827
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year8
Pounds of homemade butter3,438
Tons of hay produced in the past year231
Other recorded variables (63 variables)
VariableValue
A 101 2003
A 11 5029
A 201 PL2
A 51 1005
BEN BU25
BUTTER LB3,438
CATTLE KS139
CHILD AND UNMD FEM282
CHILD AND UNMD MALE232
CHILD AND UNMD TOT514
COARSE WOOL LB8
COLTS FILLIES3
DUCKS13
FAMILIES188
FAMILIES AV SIZE4.70
FRN CA848
GEESE2
HENS AND CHKN778
HORSES OVR THREE47
HOUSES155
HOUSES B2
HOUSES CON5
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM4
HOUSES FIVE RM19
HOUSES FOUR RM40
HOUSES ONE RM5
HOUSES ONE STRY134
HOUSES S4
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM46
HOUSES THREE RM21
HOUSES TWO RM20
HOUSES TWO STRY21
HOUSES UNINH16
HOUSES W149
INF 11 A58
MD FEM156
MD MALE154
MD TOT310
MILK COWS65
NAME CDQuebec, County—Comté
OC F8
OC P89
OC TOT97
OTHER FOWL30
OTHER HRN CATTLE21
OTHERS27
SHEEP2
SHEEP KS175
SUP AM995
SUP FOR2,687
SUP JV65
SUP PAT327
SUP SC603
SUP TOT3,682
SWINE29
SWINE KS252
TOT DWLG OCC156
TUR AC9
TUR BU229
VESS AND SHAN1
WID FEM44
WID MALE7
WID TOT51

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1891 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, Village, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-ambroise-village-qc180006-1891/.