St. Jean, Quebec (1851 census)

St. Jean was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1851 Census of Canada with a population of 1,281. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3462540. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.938°N, 70.909°W.

Population

In 1851, St. Jean had a population of 1,281: 629 male and 652 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1851

In the 1851 census, St. Jean shared boundaries with:

• St. François
• St. Laurent
• Ste. Famille

Full census record, 1851

The 1851 census recorded 192 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 7 categories.

Population & families (1851). This community's record includes 1,281 total population, 652 females, 629 males, Male members of the family who are present: 590, Female members of the family who are present: 586, 425 single males, 417 single females, 233 families, 189 married females, 187 married males, 96 males attending school, 73 females attending school, Females present who are not members of the family: 66, 46 widowed females, Males present who are not members of the family: 39, 35 female births, 27 male births, 17 widowed males, Male members of the family who are present: 12, 4 lunatic females, 2 deaf and dumb males, 2 lunatic males, 1 deaf and dumb females. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Age structure (1851). This community's record includes 88 females aged 5 to 10, 76 males aged 5 to 10, 75 single males aged 15 to 20, 72 single males aged 10 to 15, 67 single females aged 10 to 15, 59 married males aged 30 to 40, 59 single females aged 15 to 20, 56 married females aged 20 to 30, 50 single females aged 20 to 30, 47 married females aged 30 to 40, 47 single males aged 20 to 30, 37 married females aged 50 to 60, 33 married males aged 40 to 50, 31 females under age 1, 30 married males aged 20 to 30, 30 married males aged 50 to 60, 30 married males aged 60 to 70, 29 males aged 1 to 2, 27 males aged 4 to 5, 27 married females aged 40 to 50, 26 males aged 3 to 4, 25 females aged 1 to 2, 24 males under age 1, 23 females aged 2 to 3, 21 single females aged 30 to 40, 17 males aged 2 to 3, 17 single males aged 30 to 40, 16 females aged 4 to 5, 16 married females aged 60 to 70, 13 females age 3 to 4, 13 single females aged 40 to 50, 12 widowed females aged 50 to 60, 9 widowed females aged 40 to 50, 8 widowed females aged 30 to 40, 8 widowed females aged 60 to 70, 7 widowed females aged 70 to 80, 6 single males aged 40 to 50, 6 widowed males aged 60 to 70, 6 widowed males aged 70 to 80, 4 married females aged 15 to 20, 4 single females aged 50 to 60, 4 single females aged 60 to 70, 4 single males aged 70 to 80, 3 married males aged 70 to 80, 3 single males aged 50 to 60, 3 widowed males aged 50 to 60, 2 single females aged 70 to 80, 2 single males aged 60 to 70, 1 married females aged 70 to 80, 1 married females aged 80 to 90, 1 married males aged 15 to 20, 1 married males aged 80 to 90, 1 single females aged 80 to 90, 1 widowed females aged 80 to 90, 1 widowed females aged 90 to 100, 1 widowed males aged 40 to 50, 1 widowed males aged 80 to 90. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1851). This community's record includes 1,281 French Canadians. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1851). This community's record includes 143,504 tons of hay, 22,711 bushels of potatoes, 18,819 bushels of oats, 13,136 acres of land in farms, 12,977 pounds of homemade butter, 8,828 pounds of maple sugar, 8,530 acres of farmland under cultivation, 5,245 bushels of rye, 4,606 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 4,240 acres of farmland under crops, 4,187 acres of farmland in pasture, 3,303 bushels of peas, 3,038 pounds of flax or hemp, 2,779 sheep, 2,582 acres of oats, 2,575 bushels of wheat, 2,130 pounds of wool produced on farms, 897 pounds of tobacco, 665 acres of rye, 630 bushels of turnips, 551 milk cows, 442 barrels of pork, 419 bulls, oxen, or steers, 393 swine, 335 calves and heifers, 330 acres of wheat, 314 acres of peas, 235 acres of potatoes, 219 bushels of barley, 209 horses, 198 occupants of farms, 141 barrels of beef, 124 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 109 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 103 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 66 persons living on farms between 100 and 200 acres, 23 acres of barley, 18 bushels of beans, 12 bushels of corn, 11 bushels of carrots, 10 acres of turnips, 10 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 8 persons living on farms between 50 and 100 acres, 5 bushels of buckwheat, 4 persons living on farms between 20 and 50 acres, 3 acres of corn, 1 acres of buckwheat, 1 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 1 persons living on farms between 10 and 20 acres. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V2T6.)

Manufacturing & industry (1851). This community's record includes 6,000 pounds of wool produced in carding and fulling mills, 4,000 tanneries reporting, 1,759 yards of linen, 1,400 yards of cloth produced in carding and fulling mills, 1,396 yards of flannel, 1,187 yards of fulled cloth, 600 carding and fulling mills returning capital, $600 value capital returned by grist mills (pounds sterling), $380 value annual production or rent from grist mills (pounds sterling), 200 tanneries, 7 employees in saw mills, 6 saw mills, 6 saw mills powered by water, 6 saw mills reporting annual production, 2 carding and fulling mills, 2 carding and fulling mills reporting, 2 employees in distilleries, 2 employees in grist mills, 2 grist mills, 2 grist mills powered by water, 2 grist mills reporting value of annual production or rent, 2 grist mills returning capital, 1 employees in carding and fulling mills, 1 tanneries returning capital,   carding and fulling mills not reporting,   grist mills not reporting,   grist mills powered by steam,   grist mills reporting annual production,   saw mill plants,   saw mills not reporting,   saw mills powered by steam,   saw mills reporting daily production,   saw mills reporting value of annual production or rent,   saw mills returning capital,   woollen factories,   woollen factories reporting,   woollen factories returning capital, $  value annual production or rent from saw mills (pounds sterling), $  value capital returned by saw mills (pounds sterling). 208,000 feet of lumber produced per year by saw mills reporting annual production.   barrels of flour produced per year by grist mills reporting annual production. $  value cloth produced in woollen factories in the past year (pounds sterling). (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V2T6; V2T7.) The 1851 enumerator also recorded 2 distilleries not reporting — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Fisheries (1851). This community's record includes 15 barrels of cured fish. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V2T6.)

Deaths & mortality (1851). This community's record includes 22 total number of deaths, Deaths in the past year among males of all ages: 12, Deaths in the past year among females of all ages: 10, Deaths in the past year among females under age 1: 4, Deaths in the past year among males under age 1: 3, Deaths in the past year among females aged 2 to 3: 2, Deaths in the past year among females aged 4 to 5: 2, Deaths in the past year among males aged 1 to 2: 2, Deaths in the past year among females aged 1 to 2: 1, Deaths in the past year among females aged 30 to 40: 1, Deaths in the past year among females aged 90 to 100: 1, Deaths in the past year among males age 3 to 4: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 2 to 3: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 30 to 40: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 5 to 10: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 50 to 60: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 60 to 70: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 70 to 80: 1. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 4 people connected to this place who were alive in 1851, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC064011 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC075008 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3462540
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Jean-de-l%27%C3%8Ele-d%27Orl%C3%A9ans
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Jean-de-l%27%C3%8Ele-d%27Orl%C3%A9ans

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1851 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, Quebec (1851 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-jean-qc064011-1851/.