Victoriaville, T-V, Quebec (1881 census)

Victoriaville, T-V was a town in Quebec, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,474. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q141731. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.047°N, 71.983°W.

Population

In 1881, Victoriaville, T-V had a population of 1,474: 724 male and 750 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.

Later boundary forms

• In a later year, this CSD contained Victoriaville, T-V, 1891 (7.2% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Victoriaville, T-V shared boundaries with:

• Arthabaskaville, Village
• St. Albert
• St. Medard
• St. Norbert
• St. Valère de Bulstrode
• Stanfold

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 33 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,474 total population, 750 females, 724 males, 458 married persons, 269 families, 232 married males, 226 married females, 39 widowed persons, 24 widowed females, 15 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 977 single persons under 18, 500 single females under 18, 477 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 236 occupied houses, 235 inhabited houses, 9 uninhabited houses, 1 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 14,865 bushels of oats, 9,683 bushels of potatoes, 1,147 bushels of peas and beans, 1,023 bushels of spring wheat, 997 tons of hay, 975 bushels of buckwheat, 726 acres of hay crops, 593 bushels of barley, 496 bushels of turnips, 172 bushels of corn, 109 acres of wheat, 97 bushels of rye, 83 bushels of other root crops, 80 acres of potatoes, 38 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 14 bushels of winter wheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 2 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 1,463 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: QC052016 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC038021 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q141731
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoriaville
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoriaville

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). "Victoriaville, T-V, Quebec (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/victoriaville-t-v-qc052016-1881/.