Ste. Thérèse, Quebec (1891 census)

Ste. Thérèse was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,483. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q142087. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.659°N, 73.855°W.

Population

In 1891, Ste. Thérèse had a population of 1,483: 779 male and 704 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).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

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

• St. Augustin
• St. Eustache
• St. Janvier
• St. Louis
• Ste. Anne des Plaines
• Ste. Monique
• Ste. Thérèse, Village

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 85 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 1,483 total population, 779 males, 704 females, 468 married persons, 259 families, 234 married females, 234 married males, 46 widowed persons, 24 widowed females, 22 widowed males, 5.70 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 969 single persons under 18, 523 single males under 18, 446 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 1,386 French Canadians, 97 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 258 occupied houses, 254 houses, 234 houses of 1 story, 178 houses built of wood, 81 houses of 4 rooms, 68 houses of 3 rooms, 55 houses built of stone, 44 houses of 2 rooms, 36 uninhabited houses, 31 houses of 5 rooms, 21 houses built of brick, 19 houses of 2 stories, 16 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 10 houses of 1 room, 4 dwellings that are vessels and shanties, 3 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 3 houses under construction, 1 houses of 3 stories, 1 houses of over 15 rooms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 51,402 bushels of potatoes, 36,710 bushels of oats, 30,433 pounds of homemade butter, 26,818 acres of land in farms, 18,482 bushels of turnips, 16,015 acres of improved land in farms, 10,803 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 10,633 acres of farmland under crops, 5,307 acres of farmland in pasture, 5,271 bushels of barley, 3,931 acres of oats, 3,918 bushels of buckwheat, 3,836 bushels of spring wheat, 3,669 chickens, 3,652 tons of hay, 3,580 bushels of peas, 3,271 acres of hay crops, 2,071 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 1,225 milk cows, 904 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 880 swine slaughtered or sold, 766 bushels of corn, 730 swine, 722 sheep, 679 other cattle, 599 horses aged over 3 years, 519 acres of potatoes, 421 acres of wheat, 349 sheep slaughtered or sold, 313 acres of barley, 286 cattle killed or sold, 278 other fowl, 250 occupants of farms, 249 turkeys, 227 farm occupants who own their land, 204 horses aged 3 years and under, 112 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 85 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 75 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 67 bushels of beans, 60 geese, 59 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 53 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 47 acres of turnips, 32 bushels of rye, 30 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 24 ducks, 23 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 21 farm occupants who rent their land, 2 employees on farms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

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 1891, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: QC193016 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC202015 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q142087
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se,_Quebec
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se

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. Thérèse, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/ste-th-r-se-qc193016-1891/.