Ste. Marie, Quebec (1871 census)

Ste. Marie was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 1,698. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q141420. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.436°N, 73.164°W.

Population

In 1871, Ste. Marie had a population of 1,698: 849 male and 849 female residents.

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, 1861 (63.0% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, Ste. Marie shared boundaries with:

• Marieville
• Richelieu, Village
• St. Césaire
• St. Grégoire
• St. Jean Baptiste
• St. Mathias
• Ste. Angèle

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 18 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 1,698 total population, 849 females, 849 males, 546 married persons, 318 families, 273 married females, 273 married males, 57 widowed persons, 39 widowed females, 18 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 1,095 single persons under 18, 558 single males under 18, 537 single females under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 274 occupied houses, 273 inhabited houses, 31 uninhabited houses, 1 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 18,915 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC123005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC123005 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q141420
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marieville
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marieville

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1871 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 (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/ste-marie-qc123005-1871/.