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Year: 1891  |  Province: Quebec

St. Isidore, Quebec (1891 census)

St. Isidore was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 2,046. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.579°N, 71.097°W.

Population

In 1891, St. Isidore had a population of 2,046: 974 male and 1,072 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18812,139
18912,046

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

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

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

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 82 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 2,046 total population, 1,072 females, 974 males, 623 married persons, 337 families, 312 married males, 311 married females, 77 widowed persons, 52 widowed females, 25 widowed males, 6.10 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 1,346 single persons under 18, 709 single females under 18, 637 single males under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 2,019 French Canadians, 27 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 324 houses, 324 occupied houses, 321 houses built of wood, 311 houses of 1 story, 87 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 60 houses of 3 rooms, 60 houses of 4 rooms, 53 houses of 5 rooms, 46 houses of 2 rooms, 43 uninhabited houses, 13 houses of 1 room, 13 houses of 2 stories, 4 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 4 houses under construction, 2 houses built of brick, 1 houses built of stone, 1 houses of over 15 rooms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 71,235 pounds of homemade butter, 41,684 bushels of oats, 31,071 acres of land in farms, 23,688 acres of improved land in farms, 22,555 bushels of potatoes, 12,864 acres of farmland under crops, 10,718 acres of farmland in pasture, 7,383 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 6,904 acres of hay crops, 4,813 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 4,366 acres of oats, 3,954 tons of hay, 3,309 bushels of turnips, 2,683 chickens, 2,171 bushels of buckwheat, 1,904 bushels of spring wheat, 1,467 milk cows, 1,263 bushels of barley, 1,128 sheep, 1,073 swine slaughtered or sold, 984 sheep slaughtered or sold, 802 bushels of peas, 559 other cattle, 467 swine, 383 horses aged over 3 years, 363 cattle killed or sold, 327 occupants of farms, 308 farm occupants who own their land, 276 acres of wheat, 207 acres of potatoes, 202 oxen, 125 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 118 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 117 acres of barley, 106 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 104 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 87 horses aged 3 years and under, 60 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 53 bushels of beans, 42 geese, 37 other fowl, 36 bushels of corn, 30 bushels of rye, 24 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 22 turkeys, 21 acres of turnips, 21 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 10 farm occupants who rent their land, 9 employees on farms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

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. Isidore, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-isidore-qc152007-1891/.