Talk:Demographic history of Quebec

The last three digits of the figures in the million range may be available somewhere.

This is excellent. However, we are going to have to determine when the numbers include all the citizens of Quebec. The values for the 16th and 17th century obviously didn't include the Amerindians and the Inuits. Mathieugp 04:32, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Some info I found about this issue:


 * The first census in Quebec was in the 1600s.
 * The first comprehensive census for all of the regions that would become Canada was made in 1841.

It is not clear when exactly Amerindians and Inuits were included but as a rough guess I believe that when a systematic census reached them, their weight in the Canadian population was starting to be rather negligible. Delta_G


 * I am guessing that the figures included them after the reserves were created, since before that they were essentially nomadic populations. We will need those numbers though if we want an accurate account of the total population in the 17th and 18th century. I know that we currently have some 70,000 Amerindian + Inuit in Quebec, that is to say about 1%. Within some nations, the population is young an on the rise. I am also personally curious to see when the major drops in their populations occurred. Mathieugp 21:34, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Unsourced
I am curious to see the source for the data before 1851, as I could not find it on Statistics Canada. The main Quebec article now (as of June 24th, 2006) has sourced data going back to 1851 (and not rounded to the nearest thousand). If anybody has a source for the population before 1851 for Quebec, Ontario, or the Atlantic Provinces, I'd be interested to see that as well. Thanks.

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The 8+ million figure is all inhabitants of Quebec... Synotia (moan) 09:06, 30 June 2023 (UTC)