Note

The 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. It is deposited in the Archives of Paris, and there is a copy in the Parliamentary Library at Ottawa.

The repetition of 21 names, forming five families has been corrected in the present tables, reducing the total number of the population from 3,236 to 3,215.

The Royal troops, consisting of from 1,000 to 1,200 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 nineteen Ursulines nuns, twenty-three nuns of the Hospitaller order and four Filles pieuses of the Congregation.

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

There has been somewhat considerable immigration, composed of nobility, farmers and artisans.

It also comprises fifty young women, well trained and educated, from an orphanage in Paris.