Ste. Françoise, Quebec (1881 census)

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

Ste. Françoise was a census subdivision in Temiscouata County, Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 659. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.071°N, 69.033°W.

Population

In 1881, Ste. Françoise had a population of 659: 326 male and 333 female residents. Population density was 19.2 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	659
1891	704
1901	708
1911	890
1921	1,060

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. Françoise shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 64 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	106
Number of families	106
Number of females	333
Number of males	326
Number of married females	96
Number of married males	96
Number of married persons	192
Number of widowed females	4
Number of widowed males	7
Number of widowed persons	11
POP TOT	659
Total population	659

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	233
Number of single males under 18	223
Number of single persons under 18	456

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	2
Number of inhabited houses	89
Number of occupied houses	89
Number of uninhabited houses	14

Agriculture (24 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	861
Acres of potatoes	83
Acres of wheat	146
BAR BU	1,647
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	1,647
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	183
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	1,337
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	150
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	767
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	9,702
Bushels of rye produced in the past year	1,457
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	1,076
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	178
BWT BU	183
HAY AC	861
HAY TONS	426
OAT BU	1,337
PEA AND BEN BU	767
POT AC	83
POT BU	9,702
RYE BU	1,457
Tons of hay produced in the past year	426
WHT AC	146
WHT SP BU	1,076

Fisheries (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Barrels of other fish produced in the past year	1

Other recorded variables (20 variables)

Variable	Value
C UNMD F	233
C UNMD M	223
C UNMD TOT	456
CD NAME	Temiscouata
D OCC	89
FEMALE	333
H CON	2
H INHAB	89
H UNINH	14
MALE	326
MD F	96
MD M	96
MD TOT	192
NUMBER CD	41
OTHFISH XB Q	1
OTHR ROOT BU	150
TUR BU	178
WID F	4
WID M	7
WID TOT	11

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC041015 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC095015 — 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. Françoise, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/ste-fran-oise-qc041015-1881/.