Year: 1891 | Province: Quebec

York, Quebec (1891 census)

Name: York (1891)
Address: Quebec, CA

York was a census subdivision in Quebec, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 350. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.784°N, 64.554°W.

Population

In 1891, York had a population of 350: 171 male and 179 female residents. Population density was 6.4 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1861	205
1871	283
1881	485
1891	350
1901	417
1911	523
1921	661

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, York shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 148 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	6
FAM NO	58
Number of families	58
Number of females	179
Number of males	171
Number of married females	55
Number of married males	54
Number of married persons	109
Number of widowed females	7
Number of widowed males	3
Number of widowed persons	10
POP F	179
POP M	171
POP TOT	350
Total population	350

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	117
Number of single males under 18	114
Number of single persons under 18	231

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	14
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	336

Buildings & housing (14 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	57
Number of houses built of brick	1
Number of houses built of wood	56
Number of houses of 1 story	54
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	2
Number of houses of 2 rooms	3
Number of houses of 2 stories	3
Number of houses of 3 rooms	7
Number of houses of 4 rooms	12
Number of houses of 5 rooms	2
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	31
Number of houses under construction	1
Number of occupied houses	57
Number of uninhabited houses	6

Agriculture (54 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	12
Acres of farmland in pasture	63
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	3,943
Acres of farmland under crops	587
Acres of hay crops	387
Acres of improved land in farms	650
Acres of land in farms	4,593
Acres of oats	78
Acres of potatoes	51
Acres of turnips	4
Acres of wheat	2
BAR AC	12
BAR BU	226
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	226
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	3
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	1,622
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	10
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	8,329
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	18
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	462
HAY AC	387
HAY TONS	514
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	32
Number of chickens	518
Number of ducks	20
Number of farm occupants who own their land	54
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	5
Number of geese	31
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	14
Number of horses aged over 3 years	46
Number of milk cows	140
Number of occupants of farms	59
Number of other cattle	69
Number of other fowl	6
Number of oxen	21
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	6
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	26
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	17
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	7
Number of sheep	166
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	74
Number of swine	51
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	48
OAT AC	78
OAT BU	1,622
PEA BU	10
POT AC	51
POT BU	8,329
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	480
Pounds of homemade butter	11,788
Tons of hay produced in the past year	514
WHT AC	2
WHT SP BU	18

Other recorded variables (60 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	6
A 11 50	26
A 201 PL	3
A 51 100	17
BEN BU	3
BUTTER LB	11,788
CATTLE KS	32
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	117
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	114
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	231
COARSE WOOL LB	480
COLTS FILLIES	14
DUCKS	20
FAMILIES	58
FAMILIES AV SIZE	6
FRN CA	14
GEESE	31
HENS AND CHKN	518
HORSES OVR THREE	46
HOUSES	57
HOUSES B	1
HOUSES CON	1
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	2
HOUSES FIVE RM	2
HOUSES FOUR RM	12
HOUSES ONE STRY	54
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	31
HOUSES THREE RM	7
HOUSES TWO RM	3
HOUSES TWO STRY	3
HOUSES UNINH	6
HOUSES W	56
INF 11 A	7
MD FEM	55
MD MALE	54
MD TOT	109
MILK COWS	140
NAME CD	Gaspé
OC F	5
OC P	54
OC TOT	59
OTHER FOWL	6
OTHER HRN CATTLE	69
OTHERS	336
SHEEP	166
SHEEP KS	74
SUP AM	650
SUP FOR	3,943
SUP PAT	63
SUP SC	587
SUP TOT	4,593
SWINE	51
SWINE KS	48
TOT DWLG OCC	57
TUR AC	4
TUR BU	462
WID FEM	7
WID MALE	3
WID TOT	10
WORKING OX	21

Identifiers

TCP UID: QC154023 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_QC056029 — 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). "York, Quebec (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/qc/york-qc154023-1891/.