St. François-Xavier, Quebec (1881 census)

Name: St. François-Xavier (1881)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. François-Xavier was a census subdivision in Chicoutimi & Saguenay County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,687. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.396°N, 71.057°W.

Population

In 1881, St. François-Xavier had a population of 2,687: 1,408 male and 1,279 female residents. Population density was 50.5 people per square mile.

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, St. François-Xavier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 68 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	355
Number of families	355
Number of females	1,279
Number of males	1,408
Number of married females	387
Number of married males	390
Number of married persons	777
Number of widowed females	37
Number of widowed males	25
Number of widowed persons	62
POP TOT	2,687
Total population	2,687

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	855
Number of single males under 18	993
Number of single persons under 18	1,848

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	5
Number of inhabited houses	313
Number of occupied houses	313
Number of uninhabited houses	53

Agriculture (27 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	2,013
Acres of potatoes	264
Acres of wheat	2,070
BAR BU	4,308
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	4,308
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	1,190
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	18
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	22
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	49,477
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	536
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	6,994
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	33,529
Bushels of rye produced in the past year	44
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	18,330
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	1,599
BWT BU	1,190
CRN BU	22
HAY AC	2,013
HAY TONS	2,630
OAT BU	49,477
PEA AND BEN BU	6,994
POT AC	264
POT BU	33,529
RYE BU	44
Tons of hay produced in the past year	2,630
WHT AC	2,070
WHT SP BU	18,330

Fisheries (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Barrels of other fish produced in the past year	36

Other recorded variables (21 variables)

Variable	Value
C UNMD F	855
C UNMD M	993
C UNMD TOT	1,848
CD NAME	Chicoutimi & Saguenay
D OCC	313
FEMALE	1,279
GRA BU	18
H CON	5
H INHAB	313
H UNINH	53
MALE	1,408
MD F	387
MD M	390
MD TOT	777
NUMBER CD	76
OTHFISH XB Q	36
OTHR ROOT BU	536
TUR BU	1,599
WID F	37
WID M	25
WID TOT	62

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC076017 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC076017 — 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. François-Xavier, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-fran-ois-xavier-qc076017-1881/.