St. Gabriel, Village, Quebec (1881 census)

St. Gabriel, Village was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 4,506. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.478°N, 73.562°W.

Population

In 1881, St. Gabriel, Village had a population of 4,506: 2,252 male and 2,254 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.

Earlier boundary forms

• In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Montréal, Paroisse, 1871 (4.2% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, St. Gabriel, Village shared boundaries with:

• Côte St. Paul, Village
• Montréal, Ste. Anne’s, Ward—Quartier
• St. Henri, Town—Ville
• Ste. Cunégonde, City—Cité
• Verdun, Village

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 27 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 4,506 total population, 2,254 females, 2,252 males, 1,617 married persons, 892 families, 814 married males, 803 married females, 147 widowed persons, 96 widowed females, 51 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 2,742 single persons under 18, 1,387 single males under 18, 1,355 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 865 inhabited houses, 865 occupied houses, 101 uninhabited houses, 9 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 1,010 bushels of other root crops, 778 bushels of potatoes, 300 bushels of oats, 100 bushels of barley, 30 acres of hay crops, 19 tons of hay, 13 bushels of corn, 10 bushels of turnips, 8 bushels of peas and beans, 4 acres of potatoes. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 4,506 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC091008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC091008 — 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, Village, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-gabriel-village-qc091008-1881/.