Year: 1851 | Province: Quebec

St. Louis, Quebec (1851 census)

Name: St. Louis (1851)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. Louis was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1851 Census of Canada with a population of 995. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.524°N, 73.598°W.

Population

In 1851, St. Louis had a population of 995: 498 male and 497 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 Côteau St. Louis, 1861 (87.8% of this CSD's polygon).
In a later year, this CSD contained St. Jean Baptiste, Village, 1861 (12.2% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1851

In the 1851 census, St. Louis shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1851

The 1851 census recorded 181 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories.

Population & families (1851). This community's record includes 995 total population, 498 males, 497 females, Female members of the family who are present: 456, Male members of the family who are present: 436, 324 single males, 317 single females, 172 families, 167 married males, 163 married females, Males present who are not members of the family: 62, 61 males attending school, 53 females attending school, Females present who are not members of the family: 41, 29 male births, 25 female births, 17 widowed females, 7 widowed males, 1 blind males, 1 lunatic males. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Age structure (1851). This community's record includes 74 females aged 5 to 10, 60 males aged 5 to 10, 59 married females aged 20 to 30, 57 single females aged 15 to 20, 56 single males aged 15 to 20, 54 married males aged 20 to 30, 49 married females aged 30 to 40, 49 single males aged 10 to 15, 47 married males aged 30 to 40, 46 single females aged 10 to 15, 45 single males aged 20 to 30, 33 married males aged 40 to 50, 30 single females aged 20 to 30, 26 males aged 1 to 2, 25 females under age 1, 25 males under age 1, 24 females aged 1 to 2, 24 married females aged 40 to 50, 20 males aged 3 to 4, 19 females aged 2 to 3, 18 married males aged 50 to 60, 16 females age 3 to 4, 15 males aged 2 to 3, 15 males aged 4 to 5, 13 females aged 4 to 5, 12 married females aged 50 to 60, 10 married females aged 15 to 20, 9 married males aged 60 to 70, 7 married females aged 60 to 70, 5 single females aged 50 to 60, 5 single males aged 30 to 40, 4 widowed females aged 20 to 30, 4 widowed females aged 70 to 80, 4 widowed males aged 60 to 70, 3 married males aged 15 to 20, 3 single females aged 30 to 40, 3 single females aged 40 to 50, 3 single males aged 40 to 50, 3 widowed females aged 80 to 90, 3 widowed males aged 30 to 40, 2 females of unknown age, 2 married females aged 70 to 80, 2 married males aged 70 to 80, 2 single females aged 70 to 80, 2 single males aged 60 to 70, 2 widowed females aged 40 to 50, 1 married males aged 80 to 90, 1 single males aged 50 to 60, 1 single males aged 70 to 80, 1 single males aged 80 to 90, 1 widowed females aged 30 to 40, 1 widowed females aged 50 to 60, 1 widowed females aged 60 to 70, 1 widowed females aged 90 to 100, 1 widowed males aged 50 to 60, 1 widowed males aged 70 to 80. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1851). This community's record includes 2,425 French Canadians, 675 persons native to Canada, not of French origin, 578 persons originating in Ireland, 137 persons originating in Scotland, 97 persons originating in England or Wales, 24 persons originating in the United States, 2 persons originating in Germany or Holland, 1 persons originating in Switzerland. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1851). This community's record includes 73,930 tons of hay, 12,375 pounds of homemade butter, 9,410 bushels of potatoes, 2,475 bushels of oats, 2,469 acres of land in farms, 1,891 acres of farmland under cultivation, 1,453 acres of farmland under crops, 1,222 bushels of wheat, 628 bushels of barley, 600 bushels of mangel wurtzel, 578 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 440 bushels of corn, 292 acres of farmland in pasture, 200 barrels of beef, 198 horses, 193 barrels of pork, 191 milk cows, 190 swine, 150 bushels of carrots, 150 bushels of peas, 146 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 140 pounds of tobacco, 120 acres of oats, 97 acres of wheat, 90 acres of potatoes, 58 occupants of farms, 40 bushels of buckwheat, 35 acres of barley, 32 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 30 calves and heifers, 30 pounds of wool produced on farms, 14 bushels of beans, 13 sheep, 10 acres of corn, 8 acres of peas, 8 bulls, oxen, or steers, 8 persons living on farms between 20 and 50 acres, 5 persons living on farms between 10 and 20 acres, 5 persons living on farms between 100 and 200 acres, 4 persons living on farms between 50 and 100 acres, 4 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 1 acres of buckwheat. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V2T6.)

Manufacturing & industry (1851). This community's record includes 36,000 gallons of beer produced in breweries, 4 employees in breweries, 1 breweries, 1 breweries reporting, breweries not reporting, breweries returning capital, carding and fulling mills, carding and fulling mills not reporting, carding and fulling mills reporting, carding and fulling mills returning capital, employees in carding and fulling mills, employees in distilleries, employees in grist mills, employees in tanneries, foundries, foundries reporting, foundries returning capital, grist mills, grist mills not reporting, grist mills powered by steam, grist mills powered by water, grist mills reporting annual production, grist mills reporting daily production, grist mills reporting value of annual production or rent, grist mills reporting weekly production, grist mills returning capital, saw mills, saw mills not reporting, saw mills powered by steam, saw mills powered by water, tanneries, tanneries not reporting, tanneries reporting, tanneries returning capital, woollen factories, woollen factories reporting, woollen factories returning capital, pounds of wool produced in carding and fulling mills, $ value annual production or rent from grist mills (pounds sterling), $ value capital returned by grist mills (pounds sterling), $ value iron produced in foundries in the past year (pounds sterling), yards of cloth produced in carding and fulling mills. barrels of flour produced per day by grist mills reporting daily production. barrels of flour produced per week by grist mills reporting weekly production. barrels of flour produced per year by grist mills reporting annual production. $ value cloth produced in woollen factories in the past year (pounds sterling). $ value leather produced in tanneries in the past year (pounds sterling). (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V2T7.) The 1851 enumerator also recorded distilleries not reporting — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Deaths & mortality (1851). This community's record includes 10 total number of deaths, Deaths in the past year among males of all ages: 6, Deaths in the past year among females of all ages: 4, Deaths in the past year among males under age 1: 4, Deaths in the past year among females aged 20 to 30: 2, Deaths in the past year among females aged 1 to 2: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 5 to 10: 1. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 122 people connected to this place who were alive in 1851, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Joseph Roy	1771–1856	died here
Amable-Daniel Duchaîne	1774–1853	died here
Denis-Benjamin Viger	1774–1861	born here
Étienne Mayrand	1776–1872	born here
Janvier-Domptail Lacroix	1778–1856	died here
Marie-Amable Foretier	1778–1854	died here
Benjamin Hart	1779–1855	born here
John Clarke	1781–1852	born and died here
Antoine Voyer	1782–1858	born here
Jean-Baptiste Roupe	1782–1854	born and died here
Paul Morand	1782–1854	died here
Henry William Vavasour	1783–1851	died here
Jean-Baptiste Kelly	1783–1854	died here
G. (George) Vanfelson	1784–1856	died here
Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel	1785–1866	born here
Jean-Roch Rolland	1785–1862	born here
Louis-Michel Viger	1785–1855	born here
André Jobin	1786–1853	born here
Gabriel Franchère	1786–1863	born here
Louis-Joseph Papineau	1786–1871	born here
Casimir-Amable Testard de Montigny	1787–1863	born here
John Molson Jr.	1787–1860	born here
John Rowand	1787–1854	born here
Joseph-Marie Bellenger	1788–1856	died here
Denis-Benjamin Papineau	1789–1854	born here
Jean Baptiste Réné Hertel de Rouville	1789–1859	born here
Nicolas Dufresne	1789–1863	born here
Thomas Molson	1791–1863	born here
Wolfred Nelson	1791–1863	born here
Toussaint Peltier	1792–1854	born and died here
William Molson	1793–1875	born here
Robert Nelson	1794–1873	born here
Louis Boyer	1795–1870	born here
Charles Séraphin Rodier	1797–1876	born here
Alexander Buchanan	1798–1851	died here
John Anthony Donegani	1798–1868	born here
Pierre-Édouard Leclère	1798–1866	born here
Robert McGill	1798–1856	died here
William Edmond Logan	1798–1875	born here
Édouard-Raymond Fabre	1799–1854	born and died here
Jean-François-Marie-Joseph MacDonell	1799–1866	born here
Ludger Duvernay	1799–1852	died here
Moses Judah Hays	1799–1861	born here
Émilie Tavernier	1800–1851	born and died here
Pierre-Louis Panet	1800–1870	born here
William Badgley	1801–1888	born here
Augustin de Lisle	1802–1865	born here
Jos Montferrand	1802–1864	born here
Romuald Trudeau	1802–1888	born here
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland	1805–1865	born here
Marcelle Mallet	1805–1871	born here
James Smith	1806–1868	born here
Francis Badgley	1807–1863	born here
Louis Perrault	1807–1866	born here
Alexis-Frédéric Truteau	1808–1872	born here
André Ouimet	1808–1853	died here
Robert Walter Stuart Mackay	1809–1854	died here
Alexandre-Maurice Delisle	1810–1880	born here
Alfred-Xavier Rambau	1810–1856	died here
Georges-René Saveuse de Beaujeu	1810–1865	born here
Eleazar David David	1811–1887	born here
Archibald Hall	1812–1868	born here
Louis Archambeault	1814–1890	born here
Charles-André Leblanc	1816–1877	born here
J.U. (Joseph Ubald) Baudry	1816–1876	born here
Theodore Hart	1816–1887	born here
Charles-François Lévesque	1817–1859	born here
Ovid Allard	1817–1874	born here
Charles-Séraphin Rodier Jr	1818–1890	born here
Ezekiel Francis Whittemore	1818–1859	born here
Guillaume Lévesque	1819–1856	born here
William Sawyer	1820–1889	born here
François-Magloire Derome	1821–1880	born here
Maurice Laframboise	1821–1882	born here
Rouër Roy	1821–1905	born here
Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville	1822–1915	born here
Hector Peltier	1822–1878	born here
Joseph Barsalou	1822–1897	born here
Joseph Lenoir	1822–1861	born here
Henry James Friel	1823–1869	born here
Maximilien Bibaud	1823–1887	born here
R.P. (Robert Palmer) Howard	1823–1889	born here
Louis-Delphis-Adolphe Maréchal	1824–1892	born here
Orphir Peltier	1825–1854	died here
Joseph-Julien Perrault	1826–1866	born here
Masson	1826–1875	born here
Charles Laberge	1827–1874	born here
Louisa Goddard Frothingham Molson	1827–1910	born here
Toussaint-Antoine-Rodolphe Laflamme	1827–1893	born here
Alexander Walker Ogilvie	1829–1902	born here
Rosanna Eleanora Mullins	1829–1879	born here
Thomas White	1830–1888	born here
François-Xavier Saint-Charles	1833–1910	born here
James McShane	1833–1918	born here
Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Harrison	1833–1878	born here
Hector Fabre	1834–1910	born here
Joseph Duhamel	1834–1894	born here
Robert Brodie	1835–1905	born here
Hugh Murray	1836–1874	born here
Lanctot	1838–1877	born here
Ludger Labelle	1839–1867	born here
Henry G. (Henry George) Vennor	1840–1884	born here
James Kirby	1840–1914	born here
Charles Chaput	1841–1926	born here
William George Beers	1841–1900	born here
Alexander Francis Dunlop	1842–1923	born here
Alphonse-Alred-Clément La Rivière	1842–1925	born here
Gonzalve Doutre	1842–1880	born here
Henry Sandham	1842–1910	born here
John Hammond	1843–1939	born here
Romain-Octave Pelletier	1843–1927	born here
David Ross McCord	1844–1930	born here
Arthur Turcotte	1845–1905	born here
Charles-Marie Panneton	1845–1890	born here
Jessie Turnbull	1845–1920	born here
George Stephens Warren	1846–1928	born here
A. D. (Alexander Dougall) Blackader	1847–1932	born here
Lewis Henry Drummond	1848–1929	born here
Bellelle Guerin	1849–1929	born here
Cléophas Fabien	1850–1925	born here
Sydney Fisher	1850–1921	born here
Ernest Lavigne	1851–1909	born here

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC065010 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC065010 — 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 1851 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. Louis, Quebec (1851 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-louis-qc065010-1851/.