St. Jérôme, Quebec (1881 census)
St. Jérôme was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,803. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.434°N, 71.885°W.
Population
In 1881, St. Jérôme had a population of 1,803: 916 male and 887 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.
Later boundary forms
- In a later year, this CSD became part of St. Jérôme, 1891 (68.2% share).
Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881
In the 1881 census, St. Jérôme shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 37 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.
Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,803 total population, 916 males, 887 females, 576 married persons, 289 married males, 287 married females, 277 families, 21 widowed persons, 17 widowed females, 4 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,206 single persons under 18, 623 single males under 18, 583 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 236 inhabited houses, 236 occupied houses, 11 houses under construction, 5 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 17,374 bushels of spring wheat, 15,321 bushels of potatoes, 8,707 bushels of oats, 7,458 bushels of peas and beans, 3,069 bushels of barley, 2,748 bushels of turnips, 2,068 bushels of buckwheat, 1,066 acres of wheat, 878 bushels of rye, 471 tons of hay, 360 acres of hay crops, 305 bushels of other root crops, 125 bushels of corn, 107 acres of potatoes, 22 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)
Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 340 fathoms of fishing nets, 60 barrels of other fish, 33 barrels of trout, 19 barrels of salmon. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 17 barrels of whitefish — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.
Residents in 1881
The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,803 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:
QC076024— year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file - Persistent place ID:
PLACE_QC076024— 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. Jérôme, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-j-r-me-qc076024-1881/.