Ste. Agnès, Quebec (1881 census)

Name: Ste. Agnès (1881)
Address: Quebec, CA

Ste. Agnès was a census subdivision in Charlevoix County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,778. The administrative centroid was at approximately 47.679°N, 70.364°W.

Population

In 1881, Ste. Agnès had a population of 1,778: 894 male and 884 female residents. Population density was 20.4 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1851	1,278
1861	1,324
1871	1,615
1881	1,778
1891	1,790
1901	1,588
1911	1,412
1921	1,372

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Ste. Agnès shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 68 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	322
Number of families	322
Number of females	884
Number of males	894
Number of married females	286
Number of married males	287
Number of married persons	573
Number of widowed females	28
Number of widowed males	18
Number of widowed persons	46
POP TOT	1,778
Total population	1,778

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	570
Number of single males under 18	589
Number of single persons under 18	1,159

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	9
Number of inhabited houses	246
Number of occupied houses	246
Number of uninhabited houses	41

Agriculture (26 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	1,020
Acres of potatoes	449
Acres of wheat	795
BAR BU	3,297
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	3,297
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	3,995
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	4
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	9,375
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	228
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	2,707
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	23,965
Bushels of rye produced in the past year	13,805
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	7,167
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	398
BWT BU	3,995
CRN BU	4
HAY AC	1,020
HAY TONS	888
OAT BU	9,375
PEA AND BEN BU	2,707
POT AC	449
POT BU	23,965
RYE BU	13,805
Tons of hay produced in the past year	888
WHT AC	795
WHT SP BU	7,167

Fisheries (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of trout produced in the past year	123
Quintals of cod produced in the past year	18

Other recorded variables (21 variables)

Variable	Value
C UNMD F	570
C UNMD M	589
C UNMD TOT	1,159
CD NAME	Charlevoix
COD DX K	18
D OCC	246
FEMALE	884
H CON	9
H INHAB	246
H UNINH	41
MALE	894
MD F	286
MD M	287
MD TOT	573
NUMBER CD	77
OTHR ROOT BU	228
TRT XB Q	123
TUR BU	398
WID F	28
WID M	18
WID TOT	46

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC077003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC048006 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1881 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). "Ste. Agnès, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/ste-agn-s-qc077003-1881/.