1851

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Questions

Questions Options Appearing on Questionairre Instructions to Marshalls and Assistant Marshalls Column/Question Number
       

Reported Numbers

from Comparative Table O: The Origins and Religions of Upper and Lower Canada [First Report of the Secretary of the Board of Registration and Statistics on the Census of the Canadas, for 1851-1852. Quebec: John Lovell, 1853. pp. 20]

Origins
Lower Canada
Upper Canada
Total
West Indies 47 345 392
East Indies 4 106 110
Other Places 830 1,351 2,181
Birth place not known 2,446 889 3,335
Total Population 890,261 252,004 1,842,265

 

Religions
Lower Canada
Upper Canada
Total
Church of England
45,402
223,190
268,592
Church of Scotland
4,047
57,542
61,589
Church of Rome
746,866
167,695
914,561
Free Presbyterian Church
267
65,807
66,074
Other Presbyterians
29,221
80,799
110,020
Wesleyan Methodists
5,799
96,640
102,439
Episcopal
7
43,884
43,891
New Connexion
3,442
7,547
10,989
Other Methodists
11,935
59,585
71,520
Baptists
4,493
45,353
49,846
Lutherans
18
12,089
12,107
Congregationalists
3,927
7,747
11,674
Quakers
163
7,460
7,423
Bible Christians
16
5,726
5,742

Christian Church

10
4,093
4,103
Second Adventists
1,369
663
2,032
Protestants
10,475
1,733
12,208
Disciples
...
2,064
2,064
Jews
348
103
351
Menonists and Tunkers
...
8,230
8,230
Universalists
3,450
2,684
6,134
Unitarians
349
834
1,183
Mormons
12
247
259
Creed not known
390
6,744
7,134
No Creed given
4,521
35,740
42,261
All other Creeds not classified
13,834
7,805
21,639
Total Population
890,261
952,004
1,842,265

from Comparative Table of the Census, by Origins, of Upper Canada, as taken in the years 1842, 1848, and 1851 [First Report of the Secretary of the Board of Registration and Statistics on the Census of the Canadas, for 1851-1852. Quebec: John Lovell, 1853. pp. 21]

 
West Indies
East Indies
All other places
Coloured Persons
Indians
(undefined)
At Sea
Not known
1842
...
...
6,957
...
...
...
...
1848
...
...
16,612
...
...
...
...
1851
345
...
1,912
2095 (included in other columns)
3,065 (included in other columns)
168
889

from Comparative Table of the Census, by Origins, of Lower Canada, as taken in the years 1844 and 1851 [First Report of the Secretary of the Board of Registration and Statistics on the Census of the Canadas, for 1851-1852. Quebec: John Lovell, 1853. pp. 22]

 
West Indies
All other places
At Sea
Not known
1844
...
1,329
...
1,457
1851
...
5,643
10
2,446

Bibliography

First Report of the Secretary of the Board of Registration and Statistics on the Census of the Canadas, for 1851-1852. Quebec: John Lovell, 1853.