Ste. Pétronille de Beaulieu, Village, Quebec (1881 census)

Ste. Pétronille de Beaulieu, Village was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 333. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3464399. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.855°N, 71.120°W.

Population

In 1881, Ste. Pétronille de Beaulieu, Village had a population of 333: 147 male and 186 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 St. Pierre, 1871 (12.8% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Ste. Pétronille de Beaulieu, Village shared boundaries with:

• St. Laurent
• St. Pierre

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 29 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 333 total population, 186 females, 147 males, 100 married persons, 51 families, 50 married females, 50 married males, 15 widowed persons, 12 widowed females, 3 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 218 single persons under 18, 124 single females under 18, 94 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 51 inhabited houses, 51 occupied houses, 38 uninhabited houses, 1 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 1,015 bushels of potatoes, 809 bushels of oats, 158 bushels of other root crops, 76 bushels of buckwheat, 67 tons of hay, 44 acres of hay crops, 38 bushels of peas and beans, 23 bushels of corn, 13 acres of potatoes, 2 bushels of barley, 2 bushels of turnips, 1 bushels of rye. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 3 people 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 333 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: QC078001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC075013 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3464399
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-P%C3%A9tronille
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-P%C3%A9tronille

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. Pétronille de Beaulieu, Village, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/ste-p-tronille-de-beaulieu-village-qc078001-1881/.