Statistics for the 1666 Census

• Table 1- Families, Population, Sexes, Conjugal Condition.
• Table 2- Ages of the People
• Table 3 - Ages in Relation to Conjugal Condition.
• Table 4- Professions and Trades

Notes

This census was taken during the months of February and March, 1666, as ascertained by the examination of Parochial Registers. This nominal Census is in 154 pages of manuscript is deposited in the Archives of Paris, and there is a copy in the Parliamentary Library in Ottawa.

The repetition of 21 names, forming five families, has been corrected in the present tables, reducing the number of the population from 3236 to 3215.

The Royal troops, consisting of from 1000 to 1200 men, in 24 companies, are not included in the Census. It has been ascertained that the names of thirty ecclesiastics and nuns are wanting, namely four secular ecclesiastics at Quebec; five at Montreal; ten nuns at Montreal and eleven Jesuits employed in the Indian missions.

The whole of the clergy comprised one Bishop, eighteen Priests and ecclesiastics, thirty-one Jesuit priests and brethren.

There were eighteen Ursuline nuns, twenty-three nuns of the Hospitaller order and four Filles Pieuses of the clergy.

The clergy, nobility, public fumctionaries and farmers are not indicated in the Census of Professions and Trades.

There had been a somewhat considerable immigration, composed of nobility, farmers and artisans. It also comprised fifty young women, well trained and educated, from an orphanage in Paris.

Table 1 - Families, Population, Sexes, Conjugal Condition

Table 2 - Ages of the People

Table III - Ages in Relation to Conjugal Condition.

Table 4 - Professions and Trades