St. Lambert, Quebec (1891 census)

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

St. Lambert was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 906. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q112912474. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.504°N, 73.508°W.

Population

In 1891, St. Lambert had a population of 906: 427 male and 479 female residents. Population density was 649.8 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1861	530
1871	327
1881	332
1891	906
1901	1,362
1911	3,344
1921	3,890

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

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

Longueuil

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 141 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.30
FAM NO	171
Number of families	171
Number of females	479
Number of males	427
Number of married females	153
Number of married males	156
Number of married persons	309
Number of widowed females	23
Number of widowed males	3
Number of widowed persons	26
POP F	479
POP M	427
POP TOT	906
Total population	906

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	303
Number of single males under 18	268
Number of single persons under 18	571

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	266
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	640

Buildings & housing (17 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	165
Number of houses built of brick	43
Number of houses built of stone	8
Number of houses built of wood	114
Number of houses of 1 story	73
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	6
Number of houses of 2 rooms	2
Number of houses of 2 stories	91
Number of houses of 3 rooms	11
Number of houses of 3 stories	1
Number of houses of 4 rooms	16
Number of houses of 5 rooms	14
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	115
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	1
Number of houses under construction	10
Number of occupied houses	165
Number of uninhabited houses	14

Agriculture (46 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	46
Acres of farmland in pasture	96
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	502
Acres of farmland under crops	491
Acres of hay crops	273
Acres of improved land in farms	633
Acres of land in farms	1,135
Acres of oats	155
Acres of potatoes	5
Acres of turnips	1
Acres of wheat	4
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	1
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	325
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	3,300
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	20
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	705
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	15
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	400
BWT BU	325
HAY AC	273
HAY TONS	273
Number of chickens	1,541
Number of ducks	43
Number of farm occupants who own their land	63
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	83
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	4
Number of horses aged over 3 years	39
Number of milk cows	60
Number of occupants of farms	146
Number of other cattle	15
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	142
Number of sheep	4
Number of swine	6
Number of turkeys	7
OAT AC	155
OAT BU	3,300
PEA BU	20
POT AC	5
POT BU	705
Pounds of cheese produced on farms in the past year	4,360
Pounds of homemade butter	375
Tons of hay produced in the past year	273
WHT AC	4
WHT SP BU	15

Other recorded variables (58 variables)

Variable	Value
A 11 50	1
A 201 PL	3
BEN BU	1
BUTTER LB	375
CHEESE LB	4,360
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	303
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	268
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	571
COLTS FILLIES	4
DUCKS	43
FAMILIES	171
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.30
FRN CA	266
HENS AND CHKN	1,541
HORSES OVR THREE	39
HOUSES	165
HOUSES B	43
HOUSES CON	10
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	6
HOUSES FIVE RM	14
HOUSES FOUR RM	16
HOUSES ONE STRY	73
HOUSES S	8
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	115
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	1
HOUSES THREE RM	11
HOUSES THREE STRY	1
HOUSES TWO RM	2
HOUSES TWO STRY	91
HOUSES UNINH	14
HOUSES W	114
INF 11 A	142
MD FEM	153
MD MALE	156
MD TOT	309
MILK COWS	60
NAME CD	Chambly
OC F	83
OC P	63
OC TOT	146
OTHER HRN CATTLE	15
OTHERS	640
SHEEP	4
SILOS	1
SUP AM	633
SUP FOR	502
SUP JV	46
SUP PAT	96
SUP SC	491
SUP TOT	1,135
SWINE	6
TOT DWLG OCC	165
TUR AC	1
TUR BU	400
TURKEY	7
WID FEM	23
WID MALE	3
WID TOT	26

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC145011 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC046010 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q112912474

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. Lambert, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-lambert-qc145011-1891/.