St. François, Quebec (1891 census)

Name: St. François (1891)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. François was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 4,022. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.221°N, 70.760°W.

Population

In 1891, St. François had a population of 4,022: 2,116 male and 1,906 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. François, 1901 (93.5% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, St. François shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 84 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 4,022 total population, 2,116 males, 1,906 females, 1,292 married persons, 741 families, 649 married females, 643 married males, 105 widowed persons, 56 widowed females, 49 widowed males, 5.40 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 2,625 single persons under 18, 1,424 single males under 18, 1,201 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 3,989 French Canadians, 33 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 617 houses, 617 houses built of wood, 617 occupied houses, 433 houses of 1 story, 205 houses of 2 rooms, 182 houses of 2 stories, 112 houses of 3 rooms, 102 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 80 houses of 4 rooms, 70 uninhabited houses, 54 houses of 1 room, 47 houses of 5 rooms, 17 houses under construction, 16 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 2 houses of 3 stories, 1 houses of over 15 rooms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 111,514 pounds of homemade butter, 77,656 acres of land in farms, 57,277 bushels of oats, 39,971 acres of improved land in farms, 37,685 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 24,050 bushels of potatoes, 20,027 acres of farmland under crops, 19,770 acres of farmland in pasture, 13,083 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 11,369 acres of hay crops, 8,583 tons of hay, 7,069 chickens, 5,120 acres of oats, 5,055 sheep, 4,481 bushels of buckwheat, 3,296 bushels of spring wheat, 2,609 sheep slaughtered or sold, 2,317 milk cows, 1,583 bushels of turnips, 1,547 bushels of peas, 1,464 other cattle, 1,272 bushels of barley, 1,038 swine slaughtered or sold, 730 horses aged over 3 years, 703 oxen, 644 swine, 632 occupants of farms, 619 farm occupants who own their land, 596 cattle killed or sold, 552 bushels of winter wheat, 363 acres of wheat, 255 acres of potatoes, 211 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 208 turkeys, 201 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 200 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 191 horses aged 3 years and under, 174 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 139 geese, 108 bushels of beans, 104 bushels of corn, 100 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 93 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 89 acres of barley, 80 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 52 bushels of rye, 27 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 16 ducks, 11 farm occupants who rent their land, 10 acres of turnips, 9 other fowl, 2 employees on farms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC139015 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC139015 — 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 1891 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. François, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-fran-ois-qc139015-1891/.