St. Rémi, Village, Quebec (1891 census)

Name: St. Rémi, Village (1891)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. Rémi, Village was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,167. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q112912743. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.258°N, 73.617°W.

Population

In 1891, St. Rémi, Village had a population of 1,167: 578 male and 589 female residents. Population density was 3163.0 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	831
1881	909
1891	1,167
1901	1,080
1911	1,021
1921	1,135

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. Rémi, Village shared boundaries with:

St. Rémi

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 156 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.70
FAM NO	205
Number of families	205
Number of females	589
Number of males	578
Number of married females	200
Number of married males	198
Number of married persons	398
Number of widowed females	32
Number of widowed males	17
Number of widowed persons	49
POP F	589
POP M	578
POP TOT	1,167
Total population	1,167

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	357
Number of single males under 18	363
Number of single persons under 18	720

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	1,162
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	5

Buildings & housing (16 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	205
Number of houses built of wood	205
Number of houses of 1 room	2
Number of houses of 1 story	165
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	13
Number of houses of 2 rooms	8
Number of houses of 2 stories	37
Number of houses of 3 rooms	26
Number of houses of 3 stories	1
Number of houses of 4 rooms	47
Number of houses of 5 rooms	26
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	77
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	2
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	6
Number of occupied houses	205
Number of uninhabited houses	7

Agriculture (58 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	34
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	69
Acres of farmland in pasture	302
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	103
Acres of farmland under crops	1,374
Acres of hay crops	437
Acres of improved land in farms	1,745
Acres of land in farms	1,848
Acres of oats	154
Acres of potatoes	37
Acres of wheat	10
BAR AC	34
BAR BU	388
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	388
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	6
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	225
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	133
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	2,013
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	138
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	2,093
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	47
BWT BU	225
CRN BU	133
HAY AC	437
HAY TONS	384
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	11
Number of chickens	797
Number of ducks	3
Number of employees on farms	3
Number of farm occupants who own their land	92
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	19
Number of geese	9
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	12
Number of horses aged over 3 years	79
Number of milk cows	106
Number of occupants of farms	114
Number of other cattle	5
Number of oxen	4
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	4
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	16
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	10
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	84
Number of sheep	85
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	10
Number of swine	18
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	131
Number of turkeys	10
OAT AC	154
OAT BU	2,013
PEA BU	138
POT AC	37
POT BU	2,093
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	108
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year	65
Pounds of homemade butter	3,269
Tons of hay produced in the past year	384
WHT AC	10
WHT SP BU	47

Other recorded variables (62 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	4
A 11 50	16
A 51 100	10
BEN BU	6
BUTTER LB	3,269
CATTLE KS	11
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	357
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	363
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	720
COARSE WOOL LB	108
COLTS FILLIES	12
DUCKS	3
FAMILIES	205
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.70
FINE WOOL LB	65
FRN CA	1,162
GEESE	9
HENS AND CHKN	797
HORSES OVR THREE	79
HOUSES	205
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	13
HOUSES FIVE RM	26
HOUSES FOUR RM	47
HOUSES ONE RM	2
HOUSES ONE STRY	165
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	2
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	77
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	6
HOUSES THREE RM	26
HOUSES THREE STRY	1
HOUSES TWO RM	8
HOUSES TWO STRY	37
HOUSES UNINH	7
HOUSES W	205
INF 11 A	84
MD FEM	200
MD MALE	198
MD TOT	398
MILK COWS	106
NAME CD	Napierville
OC E	3
OC F	19
OC P	92
OC TOT	114
OTHER HRN CATTLE	5
OTHERS	5
SHEEP	85
SHEEP KS	10
SUP AM	1,745
SUP FOR	103
SUP JV	69
SUP PAT	302
SUP SC	1,374
SUP TOT	1,848
SWINE	18
SWINE KS	131
TOT DWLG OCC	205
TURKEY	10
WID FEM	32
WID MALE	17
WID TOT	49
WORKING OX	4

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC174007 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC077007 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q112912743

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. Rémi, Village, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-r-mi-village-qc174007-1891/.