St. Vincent de Paul, Quebec (1861 census)

Name: St. Vincent de Paul (1861)
Address: Quebec, CA

St. Vincent de Paul was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1861 Census of Canada with a population of 2,422. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q112912862. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.627°N, 73.665°W.

Population

In 1861, St. Vincent de Paul had a population of 2,422: 1,238 male and 1,184 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1851	2,385
1861	2,422
1871	2,320
1881	2,492
1891	2,519
1921	3,571

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1861

In the 1861 census, St. Vincent de Paul shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1861

The 1861 census recorded 172 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories.

Population & families (1861). This community's record includes 2,422 total population, 1,238 males, 1,184 females, Male members of the family who are present: 1,172, Female members of the family who are present: 1,098, 843 single males, 781 single females, 365 married females, 358 married males, 222 adult males unable to read or write, 208 males attending school, 184 adult females unable to read or write, 174 females attending school, Females present who are not members of the family: 86, Males present who are not members of the family: 66, 38 widowed females, 37 widowed males, 35 male births, 31 female births, 3 lunatic females, 2 deaf and dumb males, 1 blind females. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V1T5.)

Age structure (1861). This community's record includes 170 males aged 5 to 10, 170 single males aged 10 to 15, 150 single males aged 15 to 20, 148 single females aged 10 to 15, 146 females aged 5 to 10, 134 single females aged 15 to 20, 129 single males aged 20 to 30, 99 married males aged 30 to 40, 99 single females aged 20 to 30, 95 married females aged 30 to 40, 94 married females aged 20 to 30, 85 married males aged 40 to 50, 73 married females aged 40 to 50, 65 married females aged 50 to 60, 63 married males aged 50 to 60, 59 married males aged 20 to 30, 46 females age 3 to 4, 46 males aged 3 to 4, 39 males aged 2 to 3, 38 females aged 4 to 5, 38 married males aged 60 to 70, 36 females aged 2 to 3, 36 males aged 4 to 5, 32 females aged 1 to 2, 31 married females aged 60 to 70, 30 males aged 1 to 2, 25 single females aged 30 to 40, 19 single males aged 30 to 40, 13 single females aged 40 to 50, 13 widowed males aged 50 to 60, 11 married males aged 70 to 80, 10 single females aged 50 to 60, 10 single females aged 70 to 80, 10 widowed females aged 60 to 70, 10 widowed females aged 70 to 80, 9 single females aged 60 to 70, 9 widowed males aged 60 to 70, 7 single males aged 40 to 50, 6 widowed males aged 40 to 50, 5 married females aged 70 to 80, 5 single males aged 50 to 60, 5 single males aged 60 to 70, 5 widowed males aged 70 to 80, 4 widowed females aged 20 to 30, 4 widowed females aged 30 to 40, 4 widowed females aged 50 to 60, 3 single females aged 80 to 90, 3 widowed females aged 40 to 50, 3 widowed females aged 80 to 90, 2 married males aged 80 to 90, 2 widowed males aged 20 to 30, 1 females of unknown age, 1 males of unknown age, 1 married females aged 15 to 20, 1 married females aged 80 to 90, 1 married males aged 15 to 20, 1 single males aged 70 to 80, 1 widowed males aged 30 to 40, 1 widowed males aged 80 to 90. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V1T5.)

Ethnic origin (1861). This community's record includes 2,401 French Canadians, 11 persons originating in Scotland, 5 persons originating in Ireland, 2 persons native to Canada, not of French origin, 2 persons originating in the United States, 1 persons originating in France. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1861). This community's record includes $839,236 value farms (dollars), $68,292 value all livestock, 52,202 bushels of oats, 44,055 pounds of homemade butter, $43,525 value horses aged over 3 years, 28,749 bushels of potatoes, $27,018 value farm implements in dollars, 18,457 acres of land in farms, 13,616 acres of farmland under cultivation, 13,488 pounds of maple sugar, 13,315 bushels of peas, 10,274 bushels of barley, 9,376 acres of farmland under crops, 4,841 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 4,162 acres of farmland in pasture, 4,131 bushels of buckwheat, $4,036 value garden and orchard crops, 3,836 pounds of wool produced on farms, 3,810 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 3,338 acres of oats, 3,335 acres of farmland held by townspeople who are not farmers, 1,597 acres of peas, 1,295 sheep, 1,258 bushels of spring wheat, 1,199 bushels of corn, 1,192 tons of hay, 1,086 pounds of flax or hemp, 1,043 bushels of mangel wurtzel, 857 bushels of winter wheat, 801 acres of barley, 655 horses aged over 3 years, 651 milk cows, 638 swine, 590 bulls, oxen, or steers, 526 calves and heifers, 507 barrels of pork, 319 acres of potatoes, 310 acres of buckwheat, 294 horses aged 3 years and under, 268 barrels of beef, 259 occupants of farms, 224 acres of spring wheat, 108 acres of winter wheat, 98 bushels of beans, 80 acres of corn, 78 acres of farmland in gardens, 74 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 72 persons living on farms between 100 and 200 acres, 70 persons living on farms between 50 and 100 acres, 27 bushels of carrots, 22 persons living on farms between 20 and 50 acres, 17 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 13 persons living on farms between 10 and 20 acres, 9 acres of turnips, 8 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 7 acres of mangel wurtzel. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V2T11.)

Manufacturing & industry (1861). This community's record includes $14,973 value carriages for pleasure (dollars), 2,137 yards of flannel, 2,000 yards of fulled cloth, 1,634 yards of linen, 593 carriages for pleasure, $358 value carriages for hire (dollars), 49 carriages for hire. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V2T11.)

Deaths & mortality (1861). This community's record includes 32 total number of deaths, Deaths in the past year among males of all ages: 22, Deaths in the past year among females of all ages: 10, Deaths in the past year among males aged 1 to 2: 5, Deaths in the past year among males under age 1: 4, Deaths in the past year among females aged 1 to 2: 3, Deaths in the past year among males of unknown age: 3, Deaths in the past year among females aged 30 to 40: 2, Deaths in the past year among males aged 10 to 15: 2, Deaths in the past year among females aged 15 to 20: 1, Deaths in the past year among females aged 40 to 50: 1, Deaths in the past year among females aged 5 to 10: 1, Deaths in the past year among females of unknown age: 1, Deaths in the past year among females under age 1: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 15 to 20: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 2 to 3: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 20 to 30: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 4 to 5: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 40 to 50: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 50 to 60: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 80 to 90: 1. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V1T5.) The 1861 enumerator also recorded Deaths in the past year among males aged 90 to 100: 1 — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 6 people connected to this place who were alive in 1861, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Vincent Chartrand	1795–1863	born and died here
Sabrevois de Bleury	1798–1862	died here
Césaire Germain	1808–1874	born and died here
Joseph du Sacré-Coeur	1823–1902	born here
Joseph Tassé	1848–1895	born here
Pierre-Évariste LeBlanc	1853–1918	born here

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC028004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC076046 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q112912862

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1861 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. Vincent de Paul, Quebec (1861 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-vincent-de-paul-qc028004-1861/.