Waterloo, Village, Quebec (1891 census)

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

Waterloo, Village was a village in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,733. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q142289. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.344°N, 72.520°W.

Population

In 1891, Waterloo, Village had a population of 1,733: 837 male and 896 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	1,240
1881	1,617
1891	1,733
1901	1,797
1911	1,886
1921	2,063

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, Waterloo, Village shared boundaries with:

Shefford

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 152 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.70
FAM NO	371
Number of families	371
Number of females	896
Number of males	837
Number of married females	309
Number of married males	309
Number of married persons	618
Number of widowed females	62
Number of widowed males	34
Number of widowed persons	96
POP F	896
POP M	837
POP TOT	1,733
Total population	1,733

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	525
Number of single males under 18	494
Number of single persons under 18	1,019

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	739
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	994

Buildings & housing (18 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	371
Number of houses built of brick	67
Number of houses built of stone	1
Number of houses built of wood	303
Number of houses of 1 room	2
Number of houses of 1 story	272
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	41
Number of houses of 2 rooms	21
Number of houses of 2 stories	86
Number of houses of 3 rooms	30
Number of houses of 3 stories	7
Number of houses of 4 rooms	40
Number of houses of 5 rooms	39
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	184
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	6
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	14
Number of houses under construction	3
Number of occupied houses	371

Agriculture (51 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	6
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	281
Acres of farmland in pasture	279
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	142
Acres of farmland under crops	205
Acres of hay crops	296
Acres of improved land in farms	765
Acres of land in farms	907
Acres of oats	14
Acres of potatoes	39
Acres of turnips	3
BAR AC	6
BAR BU	80
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	80
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	6
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	125
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	42
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	235
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	4,780
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	1,259
BWT BU	125
CRN BU	42
HAY AC	296
HAY TONS	472
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	317
Number of chickens	1,072
Number of ducks	22
Number of employees on farms	1
Number of farm occupants who own their land	188
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	116
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	29
Number of horses aged over 3 years	205
Number of milk cows	177
Number of occupants of farms	305
Number of other cattle	41
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	14
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	5
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	286
Number of sheep	2
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	51
Number of swine	129
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	190
Number of turkeys	7
OAT AC	14
OAT BU	235
POT AC	39
POT BU	4,780
Pounds of cheese produced on farms in the past year	350
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	8
Pounds of homemade butter	2,080
Tons of hay produced in the past year	472

Other recorded variables (63 variables)

Variable	Value
A 11 50	14
A 51 100	5
BEN BU	6
BUTTER LB	2,080
CATTLE KS	317
CHEESE LB	350
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	525
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	494
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	1,019
COARSE WOOL LB	8
COLTS FILLIES	29
DUCKS	22
FAMILIES	371
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.70
FRN CA	739
HENS AND CHKN	1,072
HORSES OVR THREE	205
HOUSES	371
HOUSES B	67
HOUSES CON	3
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	41
HOUSES FIVE RM	39
HOUSES FOUR RM	40
HOUSES ONE RM	2
HOUSES ONE STRY	272
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	6
HOUSES S	1
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	184
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	14
HOUSES THREE RM	30
HOUSES THREE STRY	7
HOUSES TWO RM	21
HOUSES TWO STRY	86
HOUSES W	303
INF 11 A	286
MD FEM	309
MD MALE	309
MD TOT	618
MILK COWS	177
NAME CD	Shefford
OC E	1
OC F	116
OC P	188
OC TOT	305
OTHER HRN CATTLE	41
OTHERS	994
SHEEP	2
SHEEP KS	51
SUP AM	765
SUP FOR	142
SUP JV	281
SUP PAT	279
SUP SC	205
SUP TOT	907
SWINE	129
SWINE KS	190
TOT DWLG OCC	371
TUR AC	3
TUR BU	1,259
TURKEY	7
WID FEM	62
WID MALE	34
WID TOT	96

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC188013 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC087014 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q142289

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). "Waterloo, Village, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/waterloo-village-qc188013-1891/.