St. Jean l'Évangéliste, Quebec (1881 census)
St. Jean l'Évangéliste was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,638. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.177°N, 66.361°W.
Population
In 1881, St. Jean l'Évangéliste had a population of 1,638: 855 male and 783 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 Nouvelle, Shoolbred, 1871 (70.5% share).
Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881
In the 1881 census, St. Jean l'Évangéliste shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 41 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.
Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,638 total population, 855 males, 783 females, 473 married persons, 238 families, 237 married females, 236 married males, 38 widowed persons, 23 widowed females, 15 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,127 single persons under 18, 604 single males under 18, 523 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 234 inhabited houses, 234 occupied houses, 17 uninhabited houses, 15 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 54,999 bushels of potatoes, 16,642 bushels of oats, 15,252 bushels of buckwheat, 5,009 bushels of barley, 4,914 bushels of turnips, 3,542 bushels of spring wheat, 1,695 tons of hay, 1,622 bushels of other root crops, 1,529 acres of hay crops, 529 bushels of rye, 337 acres of potatoes, 297 acres of wheat, 283 bushels of peas and beans, 68 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 6 bushels of corn. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)
Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 3,351 fathoms of fishing nets, 78 quintals of cod, 66 barrels of salmon, 62 barrels of mackerel, 32 barrels of trout, 27 men on fishing boats, 22 barrels of herring or alewives, 20 barrels of other fish, 18 fishing boats. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.)
Residents in 1881
The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,638 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:
QC038011— year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file - Persistent place ID:
PLACE_QC038011— 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. Jean l'Évangéliste, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-jean-l-vang-liste-qc038011-1881/.