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Year: 1871  |  Province: Quebec

St. André Avelin, Petite Nation, Quebec (1871 census)

St. André Avelin, Petite Nation was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 1,872. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.759°N, 75.027°W.

Population

In 1871, St. André Avelin, Petite Nation had a population of 1,872: 989 male and 883 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.

Earlier boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, St. André Avelin, Petite Nation shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 18 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 1,872 total population, 989 males, 883 females, 633 married persons, 365 families, 317 married males, 316 married females, 28 widowed persons, 18 widowed females, 10 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 1,211 single persons under 18, 662 single males under 18, 549 single females under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 277 inhabited houses, 277 occupied houses, 33 uninhabited houses, 6 houses under construction. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 40,000 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1871 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. André Avelin, Petite Nation, Quebec (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-andr-avelin-petite-nation-qc095006-1871/.