Ste. Marie, Quebec (1881 census)

Ste. Marie was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,782. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q141652. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.447°N, 71.008°W.

Population

In 1881, Ste. Marie had a population of 2,782: 1,386 male and 1,396 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.

Earlier boundary forms

• In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Ste. Marie, 1871 (81.5% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

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

• Saints Anges
• St. Bernard
• St. Elzéar
• St. Frédéric
• St. Isidore
• St. Joseph
• St. Séverin
• Ste. Hénédine
• Ste. Marguerite

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 32 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 2,782 total population, 1,396 females, 1,386 males, 846 married persons, 574 families, 424 married females, 422 married males, 92 widowed persons, 54 widowed females, 38 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,844 single persons under 18, 926 single males under 18, 918 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 480 inhabited houses, 480 occupied houses, 13 uninhabited houses, 1 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 52,075 bushels of oats, 22,939 bushels of potatoes, 5,038 acres of hay crops, 4,919 tons of hay, 4,739 bushels of barley, 2,193 bushels of turnips, 1,957 bushels of spring wheat, 1,895 bushels of other root crops, 1,715 bushels of peas and beans, 841 bushels of buckwheat, 247 bushels of corn, 176 acres of potatoes, 140 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 132 acres of wheat, 65 bushels of rye. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

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 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 2,781 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC048001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC139020 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q141652
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Marie,_Quebec
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Marie_(Qu%C3%A9bec)

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. Marie, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/ste-marie-qc048001-1881/.