St. Michel, Quebec (1871 census)

Name: St. Michel (1871)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. Michel was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 362. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.004°N, 72.920°W.

Population

In 1871, St. Michel had a population of 362: 175 male and 187 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. Michel, 1861 (2.0% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, St. Michel shared boundaries with:

Yamaska

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 16 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 362 total population, 187 females, 175 males, 136 married persons, 71 families, 68 married females, 68 married males, 10 widowed persons, 6 widowed females, 4 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 216 single persons under 18, 113 single females under 18, 103 single males under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 59 inhabited houses, 59 occupied houses, 2 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC134002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC134002 — 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 1871 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. Michel, Quebec (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-michel-qc134002-1871/.