Varennes, Village, Quebec (1891 census)

Name: Varennes, Village (1891)
Address: Quebec, CA

Varennes, Village was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 802. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.685°N, 73.440°W.

Population

In 1891, Varennes, Village had a population of 802: 354 male and 448 female residents. Population density was 3150.9 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	561
1881	612
1891	802
1901	775
1911	820
1921	802

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, Varennes, Village shared boundaries with:

Varennes

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 146 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.30
FAM NO	150
Number of families	150
Number of females	448
Number of males	354
Number of married females	118
Number of married males	118
Number of married persons	236
Number of widowed females	42
Number of widowed males	19
Number of widowed persons	61
POP F	448
POP M	354
POP TOT	802
Total population	802

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	288
Number of single males under 18	217
Number of single persons under 18	505

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	795
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	7

Buildings & housing (17 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	125
Number of houses built of brick	7
Number of houses built of stone	15
Number of houses built of wood	103
Number of houses of 1 story	78
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	16
Number of houses of 2 rooms	3
Number of houses of 2 stories	43
Number of houses of 3 rooms	11
Number of houses of 3 stories	1
Number of houses of 4 rooms	24
Number of houses of 5 rooms	15
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	48
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	3
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	8
Number of occupied houses	125
Number of uninhabited houses	8

Agriculture (48 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	60
Acres of farmland in pasture	10
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	12
Acres of farmland under crops	106
Acres of hay crops	62
Acres of improved land in farms	176
Acres of land in farms	188
Acres of oats	3
Acres of potatoes	42
Acres of turnips	2
Acres of wheat	2
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	21
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	4
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	62
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	3,174
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	8
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	212
CRN BU	4
HAY AC	62
HAY TONS	87
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	18
Number of chickens	835
Number of ducks	49
Number of farm occupants who own their land	90
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	54
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	14
Number of horses aged over 3 years	91
Number of milk cows	77
Number of occupants of farms	144
Number of other cattle	13
Number of other fowl	24
Number of oxen	4
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	141
Number of sheep	41
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	16
Number of swine	33
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	88
OAT AC	3
OAT BU	62
POT AC	42
POT BU	3,174
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	130
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year	25
Pounds of homemade butter	5,676
Tons of hay produced in the past year	87
WHT AC	2
WHT SP BU	8

Other recorded variables (61 variables)

Variable	Value
A 11 50	3
BEN BU	21
BUTTER LB	5,676
CATTLE KS	18
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	288
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	217
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	505
COARSE WOOL LB	130
COLTS FILLIES	14
DUCKS	49
FAMILIES	150
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.30
FINE WOOL LB	25
FRN CA	795
HENS AND CHKN	835
HORSES OVR THREE	91
HOUSES	125
HOUSES B	7
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	16
HOUSES FIVE RM	15
HOUSES FOUR RM	24
HOUSES ONE STRY	78
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	3
HOUSES S	15
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	48
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	8
HOUSES THREE RM	11
HOUSES THREE STRY	1
HOUSES TWO RM	3
HOUSES TWO STRY	43
HOUSES UNINH	8
HOUSES W	103
INF 11 A	141
MD FEM	118
MD MALE	118
MD TOT	236
MILK COWS	77
NAME CD	Vercheres
OC F	54
OC P	90
OC TOT	144
OTHER FOWL	24
OTHER HRN CATTLE	13
OTHERS	7
SHEEP	41
SHEEP KS	16
SUP AM	176
SUP FOR	12
SUP JV	60
SUP PAT	10
SUP SC	106
SUP TOT	188
SWINE	33
SWINE KS	88
TOT DWLG OCC	125
TUR AC	2
TUR BU	212
WID FEM	42
WID MALE	19
WID TOT	61
WORKING OX	4

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC196008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC098012 — 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). "Varennes, Village, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/varennes-village-qc196008-1891/.