St. Joseph d’Alma, Quebec (1881 census)

Name: St. Joseph d’Alma (1881)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. Joseph d’Alma was a census subdivision in Chicoutimi & Saguenay County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 710. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.550°N, 71.661°W.

Population

In 1881, St. Joseph d’Alma had a population of 710: 372 male and 338 female residents. Population density was 13.3 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	710
1891	1,031
1901	1,305
1911	1,512
1921	1,102

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. Joseph d’Alma shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 68 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	113
Number of families	113
Number of females	338
Number of males	372
Number of married females	107
Number of married males	105
Number of married persons	212
Number of widowed females	7
Number of widowed males	4
Number of widowed persons	11
POP TOT	710
Total population	710

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	224
Number of single males under 18	263
Number of single persons under 18	487

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	4
Number of inhabited houses	94
Number of occupied houses	94
Number of uninhabited houses	7

Agriculture (27 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	153
Acres of potatoes	83
Acres of wheat	291
BAR BU	2,680
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	2,680
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	169
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	3
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	2,453
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	215
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	1,335
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	3,329
Bushels of rye produced in the past year	259
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	2,467
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	1,482
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year	11
BWT BU	169
HAY AC	153
HAY TONS	164
OAT BU	2,453
PEA AND BEN BU	1,335
POT AC	83
POT BU	3,329
RYE BU	259
Tons of hay produced in the past year	164
WHT AC	291
WHT SP BU	2,467
WHT WTR BU	11

Fisheries (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Barrels of other fish produced in the past year	2

Other recorded variables (21 variables)

Variable	Value
C UNMD F	224
C UNMD M	263
C UNMD TOT	487
CD NAME	Chicoutimi & Saguenay
D OCC	94
FEMALE	338
GRA BU	3
H CON	4
H INHAB	94
H UNINH	7
MALE	372
MD F	107
MD M	105
MD TOT	212
NUMBER CD	76
OTHFISH XB Q	2
OTHR ROOT BU	215
TUR BU	1,482
WID F	7
WID M	4
WID TOT	11

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC076022 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC063021 — 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. Joseph d’Alma, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-joseph-d-alma-qc076022-1881/.