St. Mathieu, Quebec (1881 census)

Name: St. Mathieu (1881)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. Mathieu was a census subdivision in Rimouski County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,175. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.168°N, 68.964°W.

Population

In 1881, St. Mathieu had a population of 1,175: 594 male and 581 female residents. Population density was 26.9 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	896
1881	1,175
1891	846
1901	893
1911	842
1921	781

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

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

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 72 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	177
Number of families	177
Number of females	581
Number of males	594
Number of married females	163
Number of married males	163
Number of married persons	326
Number of widowed females	16
Number of widowed males	9
Number of widowed persons	25
POP TOT	1,175
Total population	1,175

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	402
Number of single males under 18	422
Number of single persons under 18	824

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	3
Number of inhabited houses	159
Number of occupied houses	159
Number of uninhabited houses	24

Agriculture (27 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	1,047
Acres of potatoes	148
Acres of wheat	496
BAR BU	3,578
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	3,578
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	85
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	2
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	4,478
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	2
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	1,060
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	18,367
Bushels of rye produced in the past year	2,512
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	3,147
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	274
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year	4
BWT BU	85
HAY AC	1,047
HAY TONS	673
OAT BU	4,478
PEA AND BEN BU	1,060
POT AC	148
POT BU	18,367
RYE BU	2,512
Tons of hay produced in the past year	673
WHT AC	496
WHT SP BU	3,147
WHT WTR BU	4

Fisheries (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of eels produced in the past year	4
Barrels of trout produced in the past year	9
Barrels of whitefish produced in the past year	3

Other recorded variables (23 variables)

Variable	Value
C UNMD F	402
C UNMD M	422
C UNMD TOT	824
CD NAME	Rimouski
D OCC	159
EEL XB Q	4
FEMALE	581
GRA BU	2
H CON	3
H INHAB	159
H UNINH	24
MALE	594
MD F	163
MD M	163
MD TOT	326
NUMBER CD	40
OTHR ROOT BU	2
TRT XB Q	9
TUR BU	274
WHTFISH XB Q	3
WID F	16
WID M	9
WID TOT	25

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC040001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC084015 — 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 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. Mathieu, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-mathieu-qc040001-1881/.