St. Julien, Quebec (1891 census)

Name: St. Julien (1891)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. Julien was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,530. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.978°N, 71.518°W.

Population

In 1891, St. Julien had a population of 1,530: 793 male and 737 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.

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD contained St. Julien de Wolfestown, 1901 (40.0% of this CSD's polygon).
In a later year, this CSD contained Wolfestown, 1901 (60.0% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

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

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 82 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 1,530 total population, 793 males, 737 females, 493 married persons, 258 families, 248 married females, 245 married males, 34 widowed persons, 19 widowed females, 15 widowed males, 5.90 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 1,003 single persons under 18, 533 single males under 18, 470 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 1,387 French Canadians, 143 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 244 occupied houses, 238 houses, 238 houses built of wood, 234 houses of 1 story, 64 houses of 2 rooms, 61 houses of 3 rooms, 56 houses of 4 rooms, 27 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 25 houses of 5 rooms, 11 uninhabited houses, 6 dwellings that are vessels and shanties, 6 houses under construction, 4 houses of 1 room, 4 houses of 2 stories, 1 houses of 11 to 15 rooms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 98,305 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 44,358 pounds of homemade butter, 22,920 acres of land in farms, 20,579 bushels of potatoes, 13,712 bushels of oats, 11,666 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 11,254 acres of improved land in farms, 9,140 bushels of buckwheat, 6,445 acres of farmland under crops, 5,654 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 4,783 acres of farmland in pasture, 4,282 acres of hay crops, 3,906 tons of hay, 1,758 chickens, 1,552 sheep, 1,162 sheep slaughtered or sold, 1,047 acres of oats, 1,014 milk cows, 917 other cattle, 517 cattle killed or sold, 511 bushels of turnips, 398 bushels of spring wheat, 397 swine slaughtered or sold, 353 bushels of barley, 334 swine, 257 horses aged over 3 years, 243 occupants of farms, 241 farm occupants who own their land, 219 bushels of peas, 216 acres of potatoes, 188 oxen, 136 bushels of rye, 125 horses aged 3 years and under, 119 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 63 geese, 59 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 54 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 43 acres of wheat, 34 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 27 acres of barley, 26 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 19 other fowl, 16 turkeys, 14 acres of turnips, 14 ducks, 10 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 9 bushels of beans, 6 bushels of corn, 1 employees on farms, 1 farm occupants who rent their land, 1 persons living on farms under 10 acres. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC182018 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC182018 — 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. Julien, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-julien-qc182018-1891/.