St. Gabriel de Valcartier, Quebec (1891 census)

Name: St. Gabriel de Valcartier (1891)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. Gabriel de Valcartier was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 504. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.949°N, 71.465°W.

Population

In 1891, St. Gabriel de Valcartier had a population of 504: 256 male and 248 female residents. Population density was 18.4 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	737
1881	592
1891	504
1901	452
1911	470
1921	287

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, St. Gabriel de Valcartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 138 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.80
FAM NO	104
Number of families	104
Number of females	248
Number of males	256
Number of married females	83
Number of married males	83
Number of married persons	166
Number of widowed females	14
Number of widowed males	10
Number of widowed persons	24
POP F	248
POP M	256
POP TOT	504
Total population	504

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	151
Number of single males under 18	163
Number of single persons under 18	314

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	8
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	496

Buildings & housing (11 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	101
Number of houses built of stone	2
Number of houses built of wood	99
Number of houses of 1 story	98
Number of houses of 2 rooms	6
Number of houses of 2 stories	3
Number of houses of 3 rooms	16
Number of houses of 4 rooms	30
Number of houses of 5 rooms	24
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	25
Number of occupied houses	101

Agriculture (49 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	1
Acres of farmland in pasture	3,737
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	7,556
Acres of farmland under crops	4,869
Acres of hay crops	1,764
Acres of improved land in farms	8,607
Acres of land in farms	16,163
Acres of oats	1,911
Acres of potatoes	232
Acres of turnips	4
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	16
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	4
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	30,006
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	23,745
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	611
BWT BU	16
CRN BU	4
HAY AC	1,764
HAY TONS	1,083
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	131
Number of chickens	4,001
Number of ducks	371
Number of farm occupants who own their land	100
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	4
Number of geese	102
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	51
Number of horses aged over 3 years	166
Number of milk cows	531
Number of occupants of farms	104
Number of other cattle	302
Number of other fowl	2
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	48
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	4
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	23
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	23
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	6
Number of sheep	366
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	124
Number of swine	369
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	275
Number of turkeys	1,032
OAT AC	1,911
OAT BU	30,006
POT AC	232
POT BU	23,745
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	353
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year	809
Pounds of homemade butter	39,580
Tons of hay produced in the past year	1,083

Other recorded variables (58 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	48
A 11 50	4
A 201 PL	23
A 51 100	23
BUTTER LB	39,580
CATTLE KS	131
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	151
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	163
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	314
COARSE WOOL LB	353
COLTS FILLIES	51
DUCKS	371
FAMILIES	104
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.80
FINE WOOL LB	809
FRN CA	8
GEESE	102
HENS AND CHKN	4,001
HORSES OVR THREE	166
HOUSES	101
HOUSES FIVE RM	24
HOUSES FOUR RM	30
HOUSES ONE STRY	98
HOUSES S	2
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	25
HOUSES THREE RM	16
HOUSES TWO RM	6
HOUSES TWO STRY	3
HOUSES W	99
INF 11 A	6
MD FEM	83
MD MALE	83
MD TOT	166
MILK COWS	531
NAME CD	Quebec, County—Comté
OC F	4
OC P	100
OC TOT	104
OTHER FOWL	2
OTHER HRN CATTLE	302
OTHERS	496
SHEEP	366
SHEEP KS	124
SUP AM	8,607
SUP FOR	7,556
SUP JV	1
SUP PAT	3,737
SUP SC	4,869
SUP TOT	16,163
SWINE	369
SWINE KS	275
TOT DWLG OCC	101
TUR AC	4
TUR BU	611
TURKEY	1,032
WID FEM	14
WID MALE	10
WID TOT	24

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC180011 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC081011 — 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. Gabriel de Valcartier, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-gabriel-de-valcartier-qc180011-1891/.