St. Placide, Quebec (1891 census)

St. Placide was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 990. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q112912722. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.542°N, 74.196°W.

Population

In 1891, St. Placide had a population of 990: 507 male and 483 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. Placide shared boundaries with:

• L’Annonciation
• St. Andrews
• St. Benoit
• St. Hermas

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 86 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 990 total population, 507 males, 483 females, 310 married persons, 175 families, 155 married females, 155 married males, 29 widowed persons, 16 widowed males, 13 widowed females, 5.70 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 651 single persons under 18, 336 single males under 18, 315 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 983 French Canadians, 7 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 169 occupied houses, 168 houses, 150 houses built of wood, 126 houses of 1 story, 47 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 41 houses of 2 stories, 35 houses of 3 rooms, 32 houses of 4 rooms, 22 houses of 5 rooms, 21 houses of 2 rooms, 19 uninhabited houses, 11 houses built of brick, 8 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 7 houses built of stone, 3 houses of 1 room, 1 dwellings that are vessels and shanties, 1 houses of 3 stories, 1 houses under construction. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 39,833 pounds of homemade butter, 24,113 bushels of potatoes, 18,954 bushels of oats, 12,238 acres of land in farms, 9,842 acres of improved land in farms, 8,786 chickens, 7,037 acres of farmland under crops, 4,215 bushels of peas, 3,291 bushels of turnips, 2,973 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 2,714 acres of farmland in pasture, 2,396 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 2,171 acres of oats, 2,061 bushels of spring wheat, 2,047 acres of hay crops, 1,899 tons of hay, 1,750 bushels of corn, 1,540 bushels of barley, 1,207 bushels of buckwheat, 1,112 turkeys, 596 sheep, 543 milk cows, 530 swine, 492 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 484 swine slaughtered or sold, 451 other cattle, 431 sheep slaughtered or sold, 331 horses aged over 3 years, 311 acres of wheat, 263 acres of potatoes, 221 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 207 ducks, 185 cattle killed or sold, 162 occupants of farms, 148 horses aged 3 years and under, 143 acres of barley, 131 bushels of rye, 129 farm occupants who own their land, 126 geese, 118 other fowl, 91 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 77 bushels of beans, 61 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 60 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 53 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 32 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 29 farm occupants who rent their land, 23 acres of turnips, 15 oxen, 10 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 6 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 4 employees on farms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 1 person connected to this place who were alive in 1891, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC151011 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC052010 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q112912722

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. Placide, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-placide-qc151011-1891/.