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Province: Quebec  |  Years recorded: 1871–1901  |  Wikidata: Q141977

St. Jean, Town—Ville, Quebec (1871–1901)

St. Jean, Town—Ville was a town in Quebec, recorded in 4 censuses between 1871 and 1901. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q141977, so it can be queried as a single entity even when its boundaries or census name varied across years.

Population trajectory across census years

Census yearPopulationPage
18713,022View 1871 detail →
18814,314View 1881 detail →
18914,722View 1891 detail →
19014,030View 1901 detail →

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

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 12 people connected to this place across the 1851–1921 period, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry; the connection tag indicates whether the documented event was a birth, death, or burial at this place.

NameLifespanConnection
Levius Peters Sherwood1777–1850born here
George Futvoye1808–1891died here
Edward C. MacDonald1810–1889died here
Félix Poutré1814–1885born here
Louis Molleur1828–1904died here
Félix-Gabriel Marchand1832–1900born here
Élodie Paradis1840–1912born here
Honoré Mercier1840–1894born here
Israël Landry1843–1910born here
Hartley Dewart1861–1924born here
Joséphine Marchand1861–1925born here
Élodie Mailloux1865–1937born here

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1851–1921 Census of Canada series, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project. Each year's detail page (linked above) cites the specific source table.