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Year: 1891  |  Province: Quebec

Ste. Philomène, Quebec (1891 census)

Ste. Philomène was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 830. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.422°N, 71.933°W.

Population

In 1891, Ste. Philomène had a population of 830: 443 male and 387 female residents. Population density was 7.8 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1891830
19011,116
19111,274
1921855

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

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Ste. Philomène shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 162 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)
VariableValue
Average size of families5.80
FAM NO143
Number of families143
Number of females387
Number of males443
Number of married females132
Number of married males132
Number of married persons264
Number of widowed females9
Number of widowed males5
Number of widowed persons14
POP F387
POP M443
POP TOT830
Total population830
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18246
Number of single males under 18306
Number of single persons under 18552
Ethnic origin (2 variables)
VariableValue
Number of French Canadians826
Number of persons who are not French Canadian4
Buildings & housing (14 variables)
VariableValue
Number of houses138
Number of houses built of wood138
Number of houses of 1 story129
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms4
Number of houses of 2 rooms7
Number of houses of 2 stories8
Number of houses of 3 rooms30
Number of houses of 3 stories1
Number of houses of 4 rooms42
Number of houses of 5 rooms24
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms31
Number of houses under construction4
Number of occupied houses138
Number of uninhabited houses6
Agriculture (64 variables)
VariableValue
Acres of barley10
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards31
Acres of farmland in pasture1,851
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest4,049
Acres of farmland under crops3,158
Acres of hay crops812
Acres of improved land in farms5,040
Acres of land in farms9,089
Acres of oats852
Acres of potatoes53
Acres of turnips6
Acres of wheat130
BAR AC10
BAR BU167
Bushels of barley produced in the past year167
Bushels of beans produced in the past year16
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year1,214
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year14
Bushels of corn produced in the past year56
Bushels of oats produced in the past year9,115
Bushels of peas produced in the past year866
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year4,956
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year997
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year666
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year41
BWT BU1,214
CRN BU56
HAY AC812
HAY TONS792
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year74
Number of chickens1,231
Number of farm occupants who own their land125
Number of farm occupants who rent their land6
Number of geese13
Number of horses aged 3 years and under17
Number of horses aged over 3 years124
Number of milk cows271
Number of occupants of farms131
Number of other cattle150
Number of other fowl42
Number of oxen76
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres19
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres35
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres54
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres4
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres19
Number of sheep351
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold168
Number of swine190
Number of swine slaughtered or sold106
Number of turkeys2
OAT AC852
OAT BU9,115
PEA BU866
POT AC53
POT BU4,956
Pounds of cheese produced on farms in the past year6,217
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year1,096
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year319
Pounds of homemade butter12,267
Tons of hay produced in the past year792
WHT AC130
WHT FALL BU41
WHT SP BU997
Other recorded variables (64 variables)
VariableValue
A 101 20019
A 11 5035
A 201 PL4
A 51 10054
BEN BU16
BUTTER LB12,267
CATTLE KS74
CHEESE LB6,217
CHILD AND UNMD FEM246
CHILD AND UNMD MALE306
CHILD AND UNMD TOT552
COARSE WOOL LB1,096
COLTS FILLIES17
FAMILIES143
FAMILIES AV SIZE5.80
FINE WOOL LB319
FRN CA826
GEESE13
GRA BU14
HENS AND CHKN1,231
HORSES OVR THREE124
HOUSES138
HOUSES CON4
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM4
HOUSES FIVE RM24
HOUSES FOUR RM42
HOUSES ONE STRY129
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM31
HOUSES THREE RM30
HOUSES THREE STRY1
HOUSES TWO RM7
HOUSES TWO STRY8
HOUSES UNINH6
HOUSES W138
INF 11 A19
MD FEM132
MD MALE132
MD TOT264
MILK COWS271
NAME CDLotbinière
OC F6
OC P125
OC TOT131
OTHER FOWL42
OTHER HRN CATTLE150
OTHERS4
SHEEP351
SHEEP KS168
SUP AM5,040
SUP FOR4,049
SUP JV31
SUP PAT1,851
SUP SC3,158
SUP TOT9,089
SWINE190
SWINE KS106
TOT DWLG OCC138
TUR AC6
TUR BU666
TURKEY2
WID FEM9
WID MALE5
WID TOT14
WORKING OX76

Identifiers

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. Philomène, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/ste-philom-ne-qc166014-1891/.