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Year: 1891  |  Province: Quebec

St. Roch, South —Sud, Quebec (1891 census)

St. Roch, South —Sud was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 15,358. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.813°N, 71.275°W.

Population

In 1891, St. Roch, South —Sud had a population of 15,358: 7,251 male and 8,107 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.

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, St. Roch, South —Sud shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 69 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 15,358 total population, 8,107 females, 7,251 males, 5,440 married persons, 3,070 families, 2,725 married females, 2,715 married males, 713 widowed persons, 496 widowed females, 217 widowed males, 5 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 9,205 single persons under 18, 4,886 single females under 18, 4,319 single males under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 15,100 French Canadians, 258 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 1,964 houses, 1,964 occupied houses, 1,609 houses built of wood, 1,114 houses of 2 stories, 796 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 757 houses of 1 story, 347 houses built of brick, 304 houses of 4 rooms, 249 houses of 3 rooms, 225 houses of 5 rooms, 198 houses of 2 rooms, 125 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 86 houses of 3 stories, 47 houses of over 15 rooms, 41 uninhabited houses, 33 houses under construction, 20 houses of 1 room, 8 houses built of stone, 7 houses of more than 3 stories. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 3,581 chickens, 966 pounds of homemade butter, 600 horses aged over 3 years, 394 acres of improved land in farms, 394 acres of land in farms, 369 acres of farmland under crops, 292 milk cows, 224 swine, 159 other fowl, 104 ducks, 96 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, Capacity of silos (tons): 78, 59 swine slaughtered or sold, 40 bushels of turnips, 24 sheep, 17 horses aged 3 years and under, 15 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 15 occupants of farms, 15 other cattle, 13 farm occupants who own their land, 13 geese, 13 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 12 oxen, 12 tons of hay, 11 acres of hay crops, 10 acres of farmland in pasture, 10 bushels of beans, 10 cattle killed or sold, 10 turkeys, 8 bushels of potatoes, 2 farm occupants who rent their land, 1 bushels of corn, 1 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 1 persons living on farms over 200 acres. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

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. Roch, South —Sud, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-roch-south-sud-qc179013-1891/.