Ste. Pétronille de Beaulieu, Village, Quebec (1891 census)

Name: Ste. Pétronille de Beaulieu, Village (1891)
Address: Quebec, CA

Ste. Pétronille de Beaulieu, Village was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 285. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.855°N, 71.120°W.

Population

In 1891, Ste. Pétronille de Beaulieu, Village had a population of 285: 127 male and 158 female residents. Population density was 158.3 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	333
1891	285
1901	220
1911	477
1921	282

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Ste. Pétronille de Beaulieu, Village shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 141 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.60
FAM NO	51
Number of families	51
Number of females	158
Number of males	127
Number of married females	45
Number of married males	45
Number of married persons	90
Number of widowed females	9
Number of widowed males	8
Number of widowed persons	17
POP F	158
POP M	127
POP TOT	285
Total population	285

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	104
Number of single males under 18	74
Number of single persons under 18	178

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	275
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	10

Buildings & housing (14 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	45
Number of houses built of stone	2
Number of houses built of wood	43
Number of houses of 1 story	29
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	8
Number of houses of 2 rooms	1
Number of houses of 2 stories	15
Number of houses of 3 stories	1
Number of houses of 4 rooms	1
Number of houses of 5 rooms	1
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	32
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	2
Number of occupied houses	45
Number of uninhabited houses	32

Agriculture (49 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	12
Acres of farmland in pasture	344
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	275
Acres of farmland under crops	384
Acres of hay crops	69
Acres of improved land in farms	740
Acres of land in farms	1,015
Acres of oats	60
Acres of potatoes	6
Acres of turnips	2
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	1
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	25
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	53
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	1,125
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	21
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	708
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	33
BWT BU	25
CRN BU	53
HAY AC	69
HAY TONS	192
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	4
Number of chickens	336
Number of ducks	42
Number of farm occupants who own their land	40
Number of horses aged over 3 years	18
Number of milk cows	61
Number of occupants of farms	40
Number of other cattle	7
Number of other fowl	45
Number of oxen	7
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	6
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	5
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	26
Number of sheep	27
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	4
Number of swine	42
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	32
Number of turkeys	4
OAT AC	60
OAT BU	1,125
PEA BU	21
POT AC	6
POT BU	708
Pounds of cheese produced on farms in the past year	517
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	64
Pounds of homemade butter	8,230
Tons of hay produced in the past year	192

Other recorded variables (58 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	3
A 11 50	6
A 51 100	5
BEN BU	1
BUTTER LB	8,230
CATTLE KS	4
CHEESE LB	517
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	104
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	74
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	178
COARSE WOOL LB	64
DUCKS	42
FAMILIES	51
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.60
FRN CA	275
HENS AND CHKN	336
HORSES OVR THREE	18
HOUSES	45
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	8
HOUSES FIVE RM	1
HOUSES FOUR RM	1
HOUSES ONE STRY	29
HOUSES S	2
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	32
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	2
HOUSES THREE STRY	1
HOUSES TWO RM	1
HOUSES TWO STRY	15
HOUSES UNINH	32
HOUSES W	43
INF 11 A	26
MD FEM	45
MD MALE	45
MD TOT	90
MILK COWS	61
NAME CD	Montmorency
OC P	40
OC TOT	40
OTHER FOWL	45
OTHER HRN CATTLE	7
OTHERS	10
SHEEP	27
SHEEP KS	4
SUP AM	740
SUP JV	12
SUP PAT	344
SUP SC	384
SUP TOT	1,015
SWINE	42
SWINE KS	32
TOT DWLG OCC	45
TUR AC	2
TUR BU	33
TURKEY	4
WID FEM	9
WID MALE	8
WID TOT	17
WORKING OX	7

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC172011 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC075013 — 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 1891 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 (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/ste-p-tronille-de-beaulieu-village-qc172011-1891/.