Visitation de l’île Dupas, Quebec (1891 census)

Name: Visitation de l’île Dupas (1891)
Address: Quebec, CA

Visitation de l’île Dupas was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,356. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3213854. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.103°N, 73.102°W.

Population

In 1891, Visitation de l’île Dupas had a population of 1,356: 690 male and 666 female residents.

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 St. Ignace, 1901 (43.7% of this CSD's polygon).
In a later year, this CSD contained Visitation (Ile Dupas), 1901 (56.3% of this CSD's polygon).

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 80 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 1,356 total population, 690 males, 666 females, 454 married persons, 257 families, 227 married females, 227 married males, 49 widowed persons, 26 widowed females, 23 widowed males, 5.30 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 853 single persons under 18, 440 single males under 18, 413 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 1,353 French Canadians, 3 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 183 houses, 183 occupied houses, 176 houses built of wood, 101 houses of 1 story, 84 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 81 houses of 2 stories, 27 houses of 4 rooms, 26 houses of 5 rooms, 22 houses of 2 rooms, 19 uninhabited houses, 18 houses of 3 rooms, 7 houses built of brick, 6 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 2 houses under construction, 1 houses of 3 stories. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 27,980 pounds of homemade butter, 23,275 bushels of oats, 13,019 acres of land in farms, 10,840 bushels of potatoes, 10,530 acres of improved land in farms, 8,271 acres of farmland under crops, 6,692 bushels of buckwheat, 6,603 tons of hay, 5,695 acres of hay crops, 2,902 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 2,489 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 2,186 acres of farmland in pasture, 1,895 acres of oats, 1,798 chickens, 1,089 bushels of peas, 956 bushels of spring wheat, 827 sheep, 610 milk cows, 606 swine, 574 bushels of corn, 567 other cattle, 554 swine slaughtered or sold, 438 bushels of barley, 390 sheep slaughtered or sold, 374 horses aged over 3 years, 196 occupants of farms, 185 farm occupants who own their land, 161 cattle killed or sold, 146 acres of potatoes, 121 acres of wheat, 83 horses aged 3 years and under, 73 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 68 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 65 geese, 64 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 52 turkeys, 49 bushels of rye, 46 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 44 acres of barley, 37 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 33 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 31 ducks, 26 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 12 bushels of turnips, 12 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 11 farm occupants who rent their land, 8 oxen, 7 bushels of beans, 2 other fowl. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC142012 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC142012 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q3213854
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Visitation-de-l%27%C3%8Ele-Dupas
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Visitation-de-l%27%C3%8Ele-Dupas

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). "Visitation de l’île Dupas, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/visitation-de-l-le-dupas-qc142012-1891/.