St. Gabriel & St. Marcellin, Quebec (1881 census)

Name: St. Gabriel & St. Marcellin (1881)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. Gabriel & St. Marcellin was a census subdivision in Rimouski County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 975. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.386°N, 68.177°W.

Population

In 1881, St. Gabriel & St. Marcellin had a population of 975: 525 male and 450 female residents. Population density was 8.2 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	975
1891	937
1901	1,038
1911	1,571
1921	1,870

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, St. Gabriel & St. Marcellin 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	166
Number of families	166
Number of females	450
Number of males	525
Number of married females	150
Number of married males	149
Number of married persons	299
Number of widowed females	8
Number of widowed males	8
Number of widowed persons	16
POP TOT	975
Total population	975

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	292
Number of single males under 18	368
Number of single persons under 18	660

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	8
Number of inhabited houses	137
Number of occupied houses	137
Number of uninhabited houses	13

Agriculture (27 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	335
Acres of potatoes	62
Acres of wheat	261
BAR BU	7,605
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	7,605
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	386
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	21
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	2,410
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	117
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	880
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	7,028
Bushels of rye produced in the past year	258
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	2,955
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	1,001
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year	5
BWT BU	386
HAY AC	335
HAY TONS	163
OAT BU	2,410
PEA AND BEN BU	880
POT AC	62
POT BU	7,028
RYE BU	258
Tons of hay produced in the past year	163
WHT AC	261
WHT SP BU	2,955
WHT WTR BU	5

Fisheries (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Barrels of trout produced in the past year	2

Other recorded variables (21 variables)

Variable	Value
C UNMD F	292
C UNMD M	368
C UNMD TOT	660
CD NAME	Rimouski
D OCC	137
FEMALE	450
GRA BU	21
H CON	8
H INHAB	137
H UNINH	13
MALE	525
MD F	150
MD M	149
MD TOT	299
NUMBER CD	40
OTHR ROOT BU	117
TRT XB Q	2
TUR BU	1,001
WID F	8
WID M	8
WID TOT	16

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC040013 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC084011 — 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. Gabriel & St. Marcellin, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-gabriel-st-marcellin-qc040013-1881/.