St. Ours, Town—Ville, Quebec (1891 census)

St. Ours, Town—Ville was a town in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 918. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q142405. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.888°N, 73.150°W.

Population

In 1891, St. Ours, Town—Ville had a population of 918: 436 male and 482 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

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. Ours, Town—Ville shared boundaries with:

• St. Ours

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 78 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 918 total population, 482 females, 436 males, 300 married persons, 178 families, 152 married males, 148 married females, 41 widowed persons, 28 widowed females, 13 widowed males, 5.20 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 577 single persons under 18, 306 single females under 18, 271 single males under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 916 French Canadians, 2 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 107 houses, 107 occupied houses, 80 houses built of wood, 80 houses of 1 story, 66 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 25 houses of 2 stories, 24 houses built of brick, 11 houses of 5 rooms, 10 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 7 houses of 3 rooms, 7 uninhabited houses, 6 houses of 4 rooms, 5 houses of over 15 rooms, 3 houses built of stone, 2 houses of 2 rooms, 1 houses of 3 stories, 1 houses of more than 3 stories, 1 houses under construction. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 3,423 pounds of homemade butter, 1,746 bushels of potatoes, 1,181 bushels of oats, 357 chickens, 287 bushels of buckwheat, 262 tons of hay, 224 acres of hay crops, 157 acres of improved land in farms, 157 acres of land in farms, 156 bushels of corn, 142 bushels of peas, 138 bushels of barley, 107 bushels of turnips, 103 occupants of farms, 100 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 99 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 76 other fowl, 70 farm occupants who own their land, 62 milk cows, 61 horses aged over 3 years, 47 swine slaughtered or sold, 42 acres of farmland in pasture, 37 acres of oats, 37 swine, 35 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 32 farm occupants who rent their land, 27 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 24 acres of potatoes, 16 acres of farmland under crops, 15 bushels of spring wheat, 12 horses aged 3 years and under, 12 sheep, 11 bushels of beans, 10 bushels of winter wheat, 6 acres of barley, 6 other cattle, 3 acres of wheat, 3 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 3 ducks, 3 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 2 cattle killed or sold, 1 acres of turnips, 1 employees on farms, 1 oxen. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC181008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC186006 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q142405
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Ours,_Quebec
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Ours_(Qu%C3%A9bec)

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. Ours, Town—Ville, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-ours-town-ville-qc181008-1891/.