St. Dominique, Quebec (1881 census)

Name: St. Dominique (1881)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. Dominique was a census subdivision in Chicoutimi & Saguenay County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,511. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.386°N, 71.265°W.

Population

In 1881, St. Dominique had a population of 1,511: 769 male and 742 female residents. Population density was 21.2 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	1,511
1891	1,477
1901	1,630

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

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

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 66 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	220
Number of families	220
Number of females	742
Number of males	769
Number of married females	231
Number of married males	231
Number of married persons	462
Number of widowed females	15
Number of widowed males	13
Number of widowed persons	28
POP TOT	1,511
Total population	1,511

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	496
Number of single males under 18	525
Number of single persons under 18	1,021

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	5
Number of inhabited houses	205
Number of occupied houses	205
Number of uninhabited houses	12

Agriculture (25 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	1,121
Acres of potatoes	121
Acres of wheat	1,206
BAR BU	3,449
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	3,449
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	1,099
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	1
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	19,077
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	176
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	6,938
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	14,447
Bushels of rye produced in the past year	20
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	10,530
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	2,175
BWT BU	1,099
HAY AC	1,121
HAY TONS	1,293
OAT BU	19,077
PEA AND BEN BU	6,938
POT AC	121
POT BU	14,447
RYE BU	20
Tons of hay produced in the past year	1,293
WHT AC	1,206
WHT SP BU	10,530

Fisheries (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Barrels of trout produced in the past year	2

Other recorded variables (21 variables)

Variable	Value
C UNMD F	496
C UNMD M	525
C UNMD TOT	1,021
CD NAME	Chicoutimi & Saguenay
D OCC	205
FEMALE	742
GRA BU	1
H CON	5
H INHAB	205
H UNINH	12
MALE	769
MD F	231
MD M	231
MD TOT	462
NUMBER CD	76
OTHR ROOT BU	176
TRT XB Q	2
TUR BU	2,175
WID F	15
WID M	13
WID TOT	28

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC076019 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC149020 — 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. Dominique, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-dominique-qc076019-1881/.