St. Clément, Quebec (1881 census)

St. Clément was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,015. The administrative centroid was at approximately 47.888°N, 69.069°W.

Population

In 1881, St. Clément had a population of 1,015: 508 male and 507 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. Cyprien Hocouart, 1891 (50.9% of this CSD's polygon).
• In a later year, this CSD contained St. Clément, 1891 (49.0% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

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

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• Raudot & St. Jean de Dieu
• St. Epiphane
• St. François-Xavier & St. Hubert
• St. Paul de la Croix

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 34 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,015 total population, 508 males, 507 females, 293 married persons, 178 families, 147 married males, 146 married females, 13 widowed persons, 10 widowed females, 3 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 709 single persons under 18, 358 single males under 18, 351 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 123 occupied houses, 121 inhabited houses, 24 uninhabited houses, 17 houses under construction, 2 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 13,910 bushels of potatoes, 5,004 bushels of oats, 4,446 bushels of barley, 4,067 bushels of turnips, 3,128 bushels of spring wheat, 2,633 bushels of rye, 1,305 bushels of buckwheat, 1,304 bushels of peas and beans, 1,297 acres of hay crops, 810 tons of hay, 357 acres of wheat, 115 acres of potatoes, 42 bushels of other root crops, 33 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 3 bushels of winter wheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 2 barrels of trout. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,015 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: QC041013 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC041013 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.

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. Clément, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-cl-ment-qc041013-1881/.