St. Vincent de Paul, Quebec (1891 census)

St. Vincent de Paul was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 2,519. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q112912862. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.627°N, 73.665°W.

Population

In 1891, St. Vincent de Paul had a population of 2,519: 1,279 male and 1,240 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. Vincent de Paul vl, 1901 (4.4% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, St. Vincent de Paul shared boundaries with:

• St. François de Sales
• St. Martin
• Ste. Rose

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 2,519 total population, 1,279 males, 1,240 females, 821 married persons, 463 families, 425 married males, 396 married females, 99 widowed persons, 58 widowed females, 41 widowed males, 5.40 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 1,599 single persons under 18, 813 single males under 18, 786 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 2,309 French Canadians, 210 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 450 houses, 450 occupied houses, 372 houses of 1 story, 314 houses built of wood, 115 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 105 houses of 4 rooms, 100 houses built of stone, 91 houses of 3 rooms, 82 houses of 5 rooms, 67 houses of 2 stories, 42 uninhabited houses, 36 houses built of brick, 27 houses of 2 rooms, 21 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 8 houses of 3 stories, 8 houses under construction, 6 houses of over 15 rooms, 3 houses of 1 room. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 82,092 bushels of potatoes, 73,021 pounds of homemade butter, 45,590 bushels of oats, 33,322 bushels of turnips, 18,843 acres of land in farms, 16,767 acres of improved land in farms, 13,668 acres of farmland under crops, 8,769 bushels of peas, 8,573 bushels of buckwheat, 6,329 chickens, 5,357 bushels of barley, 4,832 tons of hay, 3,851 acres of hay crops, 3,832 acres of oats, 2,935 bushels of corn, 2,819 acres of farmland in pasture, 2,076 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 1,696 bushels of spring wheat, 1,680 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 1,554 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 887 turkeys, 797 milk cows, 775 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 743 acres of potatoes, 743 bushels of winter wheat, 701 horses aged over 3 years, 699 swine, 606 bushels of beans, 535 swine slaughtered or sold, 446 sheep, 436 occupants of farms, 341 farm occupants who own their land, 339 other cattle, 280 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 276 acres of barley, 270 sheep slaughtered or sold, 268 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 261 ducks, 259 acres of wheat, 247 geese, 218 horses aged 3 years and under, 191 cattle killed or sold, 179 acres of turnips, 123 other fowl, 93 farm occupants who rent their land, 69 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 60 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 56 oxen, 36 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 22 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 17 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 2 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 4 people 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: QC163006 — 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 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. Vincent de Paul, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/st-vincent-de-paul-qc163006-1891/.