St. Valentin, Quebec (1891 census)

St. Valentin was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,788. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q112912847. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.151°N, 73.313°W.

Population

In 1891, St. Valentin had a population of 1,788: 914 male and 874 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).

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

• In a later year, this CSD contained St. Paul, 1901 (31.3% of this CSD's polygon).
• In a later year, this CSD contained St. Valentin, 1901 (40.1% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, St. Valentin shared boundaries with:

• St. Bernard de Lacolle
• St. Cyprien
• St. Jean l’Evangéliste
• Ste. Marguerite de Blairfindie

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 83 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 1,788 total population, 914 males, 874 females, 550 married persons, 282 families, 275 married females, 275 married males, 53 widowed persons, 28 widowed females, 25 widowed males, 6.30 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 1,185 single persons under 18, 614 single males under 18, 571 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 1,721 French Canadians, 67 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 277 houses, 277 occupied houses, 221 houses built of wood, 181 houses of 2 stories, 129 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 93 houses of 1 story, 52 uninhabited houses, 49 houses of 3 rooms, 44 houses of 5 rooms, 39 houses built of brick, 33 houses of 4 rooms, 17 houses built of stone, 16 houses of 2 rooms, 3 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 3 houses of over 15 rooms, 2 houses of 3 stories, 1 houses of more than 3 stories. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 59,616 pounds of homemade butter, 52,443 bushels of oats, 25,870 acres of land in farms, 23,909 acres of improved land in farms, 19,496 bushels of potatoes, 19,117 acres of farmland under crops, 11,432 acres of hay crops, 9,725 bushels of buckwheat, 9,525 tons of hay, 7,033 chickens, 6,749 bushels of peas, 4,551 acres of farmland in pasture, 4,367 acres of oats, 3,482 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 2,677 bushels of corn, 2,264 bushels of barley, 1,961 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 807 horses aged over 3 years, 790 milk cows, 785 geese, 749 sheep, 668 bushels of spring wheat, 616 swine, 557 swine slaughtered or sold, 545 other cattle, 514 sheep slaughtered or sold, 487 turkeys, 433 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 429 ducks, 385 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 346 horses aged 3 years and under, 274 cattle killed or sold, 258 occupants of farms, 241 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 221 acres of barley, 216 farm occupants who own their land, 181 acres of potatoes, 178 other fowl, 104 acres of wheat, 98 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 68 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 46 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 38 farm occupants who rent their land, 33 bushels of beans, 26 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 20 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 19 bushels of turnips, 4 employees on farms, 4 oxen, 1 acres of turnips. (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: QC186006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC092008_1911 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q112912847

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. Valentin, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-valentin-qc186006-1891/.