1666 Census The First Census of New France

• • • 1. Table I – Families, Population, Sexes, Conjugal Condition.
      2. Table II – Ages of the People
      3. Table III – Ages in Relation to Conjugal Condition.
      4. Table IV – 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 functionaries 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.