St. Joseph, Quebec (1881 census)

St. Joseph was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,838. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q141613. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.312°N, 70.865°W.

Population

In 1881, St. Joseph had a population of 2,838: 1,397 male and 1,441 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 St. Joseph, 1871 (84.0% share).

Later boundary forms

• In a later year, this CSD contained St. Joseph, Village, 1891 (1.3% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

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

• Cranbourne
• Sacré Cœur de Jésus
• Saints Anges
• St. Edouard
• St. François
• St. Frédéric
• St. Victor
• Ste. Marie

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 34 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 2,838 total population, 1,441 females, 1,397 males, 912 married persons, 483 families, 457 married males, 455 married females, 93 widowed persons, 59 widowed females, 34 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,833 single persons under 18, 927 single females under 18, 906 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 430 occupied houses, 429 inhabited houses, 23 uninhabited houses, 4 houses under construction, 1 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 41,503 bushels of oats, 11,599 bushels of potatoes, 6,646 acres of hay crops, 6,615 tons of hay, 4,288 bushels of barley, 1,824 bushels of turnips, 1,759 bushels of buckwheat, 1,692 bushels of peas and beans, 1,068 bushels of spring wheat, 817 bushels of other root crops, 164 acres of potatoes, 164 bushels of corn, 94 acres of wheat, 94 bushels of rye, 67 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 2,838 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: QC048003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC048003 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q141613
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce

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, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-joseph-qc048003-1881/.