St. Joseph, Quebec (1891 census)

St. Joseph was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 351. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.774°N, 71.080°W.

Population

In 1891, St. Joseph had a population of 351: 176 male and 175 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 de Lévis, 1881 (75.6% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, St. Joseph shared boundaries with:

• Beaumont
• Lauzon, T-V
• Lévis, C
• Notre-Dame de la Victoire
• St. Charles
• St. Henri de Lauzon

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 72 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 351 total population, 176 males, 175 females, 113 married persons, 59 families, 57 married males, 56 married females, 19 widowed persons, 16 widowed females, 5.90 average size of families, 3 widowed males. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 219 single persons under 18, 116 single males under 18, 103 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 351 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 58 houses, 58 houses built of wood, 58 occupied houses, 56 houses of 1 story, 31 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 15 uninhabited houses, 12 houses of 4 rooms, 11 houses of 5 rooms, 4 houses of 3 rooms, 2 houses of 2 stories. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 50,648 pounds of homemade butter, 8,497 acres of land in farms, 5,933 bushels of oats, 5,540 acres of improved land in farms, 4,378 acres of farmland in pasture, 2,957 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 2,939 bushels of potatoes, 1,768 acres of hay crops, 1,531 tons of hay, 1,156 acres of farmland under crops, 1,096 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 1,037 chickens, 757 acres of oats, 590 swine, 460 swine slaughtered or sold, 421 sheep, 378 milk cows, 308 bushels of barley, 220 sheep slaughtered or sold, 170 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 101 other cattle, 90 horses aged over 3 years, 78 oxen, 77 cattle killed or sold, 74 occupants of farms, 72 bushels of spring wheat, 70 geese, 67 bushels of peas, 63 farm occupants who own their land, 49 acres of potatoes, 36 acres of barley, 31 bushels of buckwheat, 28 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 25 ducks, 22 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 13 horses aged 3 years and under, 12 acres of wheat, 11 farm occupants who rent their land, 10 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 8 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 7 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 7 other fowl, 6 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 6 bushels of beans, 6 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 4 bushels of turnips, 1 acres of turnips. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC164009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC164009 — 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 1891 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 (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-joseph-qc164009-1891/.