St. Elzéar, Quebec (1861 census)

Name: St. Elzéar (1861)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. Elzéar was a census subdivision in Beauce County, Quebec, recorded in the 1861 Census of Canada with a population of 2,305. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.385°N, 71.067°W.

Population

In 1861, St. Elzéar had a population of 2,305: 1,189 male and 1,116 female residents. Population density was 52.5 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1851	2,365
1861	2,305
1871	2,129
1881	1,500
1891	1,247
1901	1,235
1911	1,175
1921	1,128

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1861

In the 1861 census, St. Elzéar shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1861

The 1861 census recorded 327 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 7 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (26 variables)

Variable	Value
Female members of the family who are present	1,074
Females present who are not members of the family	43
Male members of the family who are present	1,138
Males present who are not members of the family	50
Number of adult females unable to read or write	431
Number of adult males unable to read or write	669
Number of deaf and dumb males	1
Number of female births in the past year	37
Number of females	1,116
Number of females attending school	159
Number of lunatic females	2
Number of lunatic males	2
Number of male births in the past year	64
Number of males	1,189
Number of males attending school	126
Number of married females	350
Number of married males	348
Number of single females	740
Number of single males	822
Number of widowed females	26
Number of widowed males	19
POP FX N.1	1,116
POP MX N.1	1,189
POP TOT	2,305
POP XX N.1	2,305
Total population	2,305

Age structure (55 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of females age 3 to 4	39
Number of females aged 1 to 2	55
Number of females aged 2 to 3	44
Number of females aged 4 to 5	32
Number of females aged 5 to 10	144
Number of males aged 1 to 2	54
Number of males aged 2 to 3	36
Number of males aged 3 to 4	46
Number of males aged 4 to 5	38
Number of males aged 5 to 10	175
Number of married females aged 15 to 20	5
Number of married females aged 20 to 30	107
Number of married females aged 30 to 40	94
Number of married females aged 40 to 50	69
Number of married females aged 50 to 60	47
Number of married females aged 60 to 70	23
Number of married females aged 70 to 80	4
Number of married females aged 80 to 90	1
Number of married males aged 15 to 20	1
Number of married males aged 20 to 30	79
Number of married males aged 30 to 40	84
Number of married males aged 40 to 50	79
Number of married males aged 50 to 60	66
Number of married males aged 60 to 70	24
Number of married males aged 70 to 80	13
Number of married males aged 80 to 90	2
Number of single females aged 10 to 15	154
Number of single females aged 15 to 20	158
Number of single females aged 20 to 30	49
Number of single females aged 30 to 40	17
Number of single females aged 40 to 50	7
Number of single females aged 50 to 60	1
Number of single females aged 60 to 70	1
Number of single females aged 70 to 80	2
Number of single males aged 10 to 15	159
Number of single males aged 15 to 20	172
Number of single males aged 20 to 30	62
Number of single males aged 30 to 40	5
Number of single males aged 40 to 50	3
Number of single males aged 50 to 60	3
Number of single males aged 60 to 70	3
Number of single males aged 70 to 80	2
Number of widowed females aged 30 to 40	3
Number of widowed females aged 40 to 50	1
Number of widowed females aged 50 to 60	6
Number of widowed females aged 60 to 70	3
Number of widowed females aged 70 to 80	11
Number of widowed females aged 90 to 100	2
Number of widowed males aged 20 to 30	1
Number of widowed males aged 30 to 40	3
Number of widowed males aged 50 to 60	1
Number of widowed males aged 60 to 70	2
Number of widowed males aged 70 to 80	5
Number of widowed males aged 80 to 90	5
Number of widowed males aged 90 to 100	2

Ethnic origin (5 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	2,189
Number of persons native to Canada, not of French origin	86
Number of persons originating in France	1
Number of persons originating in Ireland	27
Number of persons originating in the United States	2

Agriculture (68 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	328
Acres of buckwheat	1
Acres of farmland in gardens	73
Acres of farmland in pasture	8,910
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	29,023
Acres of farmland under crops	11,024
Acres of farmland under cultivation	20,007
Acres of land in farms	49,030
Acres of oats	4,823
Acres of peas	424
Acres of potatoes	145
Acres of rye	21
Acres of spring wheat	69
Acres of turnips	1
Barrels of beef produced in the past year	77
Barrels of pork produced in the past year	591
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	4,855
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	20
Bushels of carrots produced in the past year	4
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	16
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	80,210
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	3,377
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	26,471
Bushels of rye produced in the past year	349
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	752
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	60
C20 WHT SP AC	331
C21 WHT SP BU	2,770
C22 BAR AC	364
C23 BAR BU	4,620
C24 RYE AC	46
C25 RYE BU	349
C26 PEA AC	418
C27 PEA BU	3,154
C28 OAT AC	3,698
C29 OAT BU	17,331
C30 BWT AC	194
C31 BWT BU	1,344
C34 POT AC	228
C35 POT BU	18,458
C43 HAY TONS	2,495
C47 WOOL LBS	18,579
C63 BEEF BAR	64
C64 PORK BAR	763
HRS ov03 V	91,345
Number of bulls, oxen, or steers	668
Number of calves and heifers	1,243
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	115
Number of horses aged over 3 years	519
Number of milk cows	1,830
Number of occupants of farms	419
Number of persons living on farms between 10 and 20 acres	6
Number of persons living on farms between 100 and 200 acres	114
Number of persons living on farms between 20 and 50 acres	47
Number of persons living on farms between 50 and 100 acres	184
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	59
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	9
Number of sheep	4,776
Number of swine	1,087
Pounds of flax or hemp produced in the past year	5,150
Pounds of homemade butter	48,742
Pounds of maple sugar produced in the past year	296,570
Pounds of wool produced on farms in the past year	18,759
Tons of hay produced in the past year	4,791
Value of all livestock	107,343
Value of farm implements in dollars	27,293
Value of farms (dollars)	477,425
Value of garden and orchard crops produced in the past year	3,000

Manufacturing & industry (5 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of carriages for pleasure	696
Value of carriages for pleasure (dollars)	11,746
Yards of flannel produced in the past year	8,992
Yards of fulled cloth produced in the past year	5,491
Yards of linen produced in the past year	7,884

Deaths & mortality (20 variables)

Variable	Value
Deaths in the past year among females aged 1 to 2	2
Deaths in the past year among females aged 10 to 15	2
Deaths in the past year among females aged 15 to 20	2
Deaths in the past year among females aged 2 to 3	1
Deaths in the past year among females aged 4 to 5	1
Deaths in the past year among females aged 5 to 10	2
Deaths in the past year among females of all ages	16
Deaths in the past year among females under age 1	3
Deaths in the past year among males age 3 to 4	2
Deaths in the past year among males aged 1 to 2	9
Deaths in the past year among males aged 15 to 20	1
Deaths in the past year among males aged 2 to 3	2
Deaths in the past year among males aged 20 to 30	1
Deaths in the past year among males aged 5 to 10	1
Deaths in the past year among males aged 50 to 60	1
Deaths in the past year among males aged 70 to 80	1
Deaths in the past year among males aged 80 to 90	1
Deaths in the past year among males of all ages	18
Deaths in the past year among males under age 1	2
Total number of deaths in the past year	34

Other recorded variables (148 variables)

Variable	Value
C01 TOTAL	276
C03 OCC 10 TO 20	6
C04 OCC 20 TO 50	43
C05 OCC 50 TO 100	125
C06 OCC 100 TO 200	81
C07 OCC OVR 200	21
C08 HELD	28,885
C09 UNDR CULT	20,007
C1 Males	1,189
C10 Deaths under 1 year M	2
C10 UNDR CROP	13,369
C102 Between 90 and 100 years Widowers M	2
C105 Between 90 and 100 years Widows F	2
C11 Deaths under 1 year F	3
C11 UNDR PAST	7,103
C12 GARDENS	89
C12 Under 2 Years M	54
C120 Married M	348
C121 Single M	822
C122 Widowed M	19
C123 Total M	1,189
C124 Married F	350
C125 Single F	740
C126 Widows F	26
C127 Total F	1,116
C128 Grand Total	2,305
C129 Deaths M	18
C13 Under 2 Years F	55
C13 WOOD WILD	8,324
C130 Deaths F	16
C131 Deaths Total	34
C136 Attending School M	126
C137 Attending School F	159
C138 Adults unable to read or write M	669
C139 Adults unable to read or write F	431
C14 CASH FARM	477,425
C14 Deaths under 2 years M	9
C140 Deaf and Dumb M	1
C144 Lunatics M	2
C145 Lunatics F	2
C15 CASH IMP	10,316
C15 Deaths under 2 years F	2
C16 GARDN VALUE	1,241
C16 Under 3 years M	36
C17 LAND HELD	62
C17 Under 3 years F	44
C18 Deaths under 3 years M	2
C19 Deaths under 3 years F	1
C2 Females	1,116
C20 Under 4 years M	46
C21 Under 4 years F	39
C22 Deaths under 4 years M	2
C24 Under 5 years M	38
C25 Under 5 years F	32
C27 Deaths under 5 years F	1
C28 Between 5 and 10 Years M	175
C29 Between 5 and 10 years F	144
C3 Total	2,305
C30 Deaths between 5 and 10 years M	1
C31 Deaths between 5 and 10 years F	2
C32 INDN CRN AC	1
C33 Between 10 and 15 years Single M	159
C33 INDN CRN BU	9
C35 Between 10 and 15 years Single F	164
C36 TUR AC	5
C37 Between 10 and 15 years Deaths F	2
C37 TUR BU	204
C38 Between 15 and 20 years Married M	1
C38 CAR BU	14
C39 Between 15 and 20 years Single M	172
C39 MAN WURT AC	2
C4 Members of Family M	1,138
C40 Between 15 and 20 years Married F	5
C40 MAN WURT BU	20
C41 BEN BU	30
C41 Between 15 and 20 years Single F	158
C42 Between 15 and 20 years Deaths M	1
C42 CLV TIM GRA	8
C43 Between 15 and 20 years Deaths F	2
C44 Between 20 and 30 years Married M	79
C45 Between 20 and 30 years Single M	62
C45 MPL SGR LBS	49,608
C46 Between 20 and 30 years Widowers M	1
C47 Between 20 and 30 years Married F	107
C48 Between 20 and 30 years Single F	49
C48 FLLD CLOTH YRDS	3,055
C49 FLAN YRDS	5,346
C5 Members of Family F	1,074
C50 Between 20 and 30 years Deaths M	1
C50 FLX HEM LBS	4,445
C51 LIN YRDS	4,821
C52 Between 30 and 40 years Married M	84
C52 BULLS OX STEERS	1,429
C53 Between 30 and 40 years Single M	5
C53 MILK COWS	1,830
C54 Between 30 and 40 years Widowers M	3
C55 Between 30 and 40 years Married F	94
C55 HORSES	359
C56 Between 30 and 40 years Single F	17
C56 HORSES VAL	22,136
C57 Between 30 and 40 years Widows F	3
C57 COLTS FILLIES	115
C58 SHEEP	2,624
C59 SWINE	999
C6 Not Members of Family M	50
C60 Between 40 and 50 years Married M	79
C60 TOT VALUE	62,174
C61 Between 40 and 50 years Single M	3
C61 BUTTER LB	34,543
C62 CHEESE LB	16
C63 Between 40 and 50 years Married F	69
C64 Between 40 and 50 years Single F	7
C65 Between 40 and 50 years Widows F	1
C68 Between 50 and 60 years Married M	66
C68 CAR PLEASURE	510
C69 Between 50 and 60 years Single M	3
C69 VALUE DOL P	7,247
C7 Not Members of Family F	43
C70 Between 50 and 60 years Widowers M	1
C71 Between 50 and 60 years Married F	47
C72 Between 50 and 60 years Single F	1
C73 Between 50 and 60 years Widows F	6
C74 Between 50 and 60 years Deaths M	1
C76 Between 60 and 70 years Married M	24
C77 Between 60 and 70 years Single M	3
C78 Between 60 and 70 years Widowers M	2
C79 Between 60 and 70 years Married F	23
C8 Births in 1860 M	64
C80 Between 60 and 70 years Single F	1
C81 Between 60 and 70 years Widows F	3
C84 Between 70 and 80 years Married M	13
C85 Between 70 and 80 years Single M	2
C86 Between 70 and 80 years Widowers M	5
C87 Between 70 and 80 years Married F	4
C88 Between 70 and 80 years Single F	2
C89 Between 70 and 80 years Widows F	11
C9 Births in 1860 F	37
C90 Between 70 and 80 years Deaths M	1
C92 Between 80 and 90 years Married M	2
C94 Between 80 and 90 years Widowers M	5
C95 Between 80 and 90 years Married F	1
C98 Between 80 and 90 years Deaths M	1
CD NAME	Beauce
France	1
Ireland	27
Natives of Canada French Origin	2,189
Natives of Canada Not of French Origin	86
United States	2

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC005012 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC040008 — 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 1861 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. Elzéar, Quebec (1861 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-elz-ar-qc005012-1861/.