St. Joachim, Quebec (1881 census)

St. Joachim was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 959. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q112912408. The administrative centroid was at approximately 47.076°N, 70.829°W.

Population

In 1881, St. Joachim had a population of 959: 488 male and 471 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 1881

In the 1881 census, St. Joachim shared boundaries with:

• NO DATA
• St. Féréol
• St. Tite
• Ste. Anne

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 32 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 959 total population, 488 males, 471 females, 287 married persons, 170 families, 145 married males, 142 married females, 44 widowed persons, 27 widowed females, 17 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 628 single persons under 18, 326 single males under 18, 302 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 148 inhabited houses, 148 occupied houses, 8 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 31,153 bushels of oats, 9,529 bushels of potatoes, 5,500 bushels of spring wheat, 2,734 tons of hay, 1,176 acres of hay crops, 998 bushels of buckwheat, 756 bushels of peas and beans, 715 bushels of barley, 475 acres of wheat, 454 bushels of other root crops, 444 bushels of turnips, 253 bushels of rye, 68 acres of potatoes, 33 bushels of corn, 17 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 3 bushels of winter wheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 959 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: QC078010 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC075009 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q112912408

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. Joachim, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-joachim-qc078010-1881/.