St. Edmond de Stoneham, Quebec (1881 census)

St. Edmond de Stoneham was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 820. The administrative centroid was at approximately 47.146°N, 71.434°W.

Population

In 1881, St. Edmond de Stoneham had a population of 820: 414 male and 406 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

• In an earlier year, this CSD contained Stoneham, 1871 (20.8% share).
• In an earlier year, this CSD contained Tewkesbury, 1871 (79.2% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, St. Edmond de Stoneham shared boundaries with:

• Charlesbourg, VL
• Château Richer
• Lac Beauport
• Laval, VL
• NO DATA
• NO DATA
• St. Ambroise
• St. Gabriel de Valcartier
• St. Gabriel W-O

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 33 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 820 total population, 414 males, 406 females, 256 married persons, 147 families, 129 married males, 127 married females, 27 widowed persons, 21 widowed females, 6 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 537 single persons under 18, 279 single males under 18, 258 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 138 occupied houses, 136 inhabited houses, 5 houses under construction, 2 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 2 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 22,128 bushels of oats, 20,336 bushels of potatoes, 3,841 bushels of turnips, 1,440 bushels of buckwheat, 1,378 tons of hay, 1,352 acres of hay crops, 621 bushels of spring wheat, 263 bushels of barley, 232 acres of potatoes, 147 bushels of other root crops, 84 bushels of peas and beans, 42 acres of wheat, 22 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 20 bushels of rye, 12 bushels of corn. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 822 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: QC080004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC080004 — 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. Edmond de Stoneham, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-edmond-de-stoneham-qc080004-1881/.