Perhaps because it was spring, intendant Jean Talon began conducting a census of New France on March 21, 1666 — 350 years ago. That was the first time an official census had been conducted in North America.
Talon had been appointed almost exactly a year earlier, on March 23, 1665, as the first intendant of New France, in charge of justice and finances.
Jean Talon, first intendant of New France.
Talon conducted the census largely by himself from 1665 to 1666, travelling door to door among the settlements of New France.
The 1666 census is only 163 pages long and notes the names, ages, and occupations of the French inhabitants of Quebec City, Montreal, and Trois-Rivières. According to the census, there were 3,215 people in New France and a third of them were unmarried. There were 2,034 men and 1,181 women.
The original copy of this census is held at the Centre des archives d’outre-mer in Aix-en-Provence, France. A digital copy is available on the Library and Archives Canada website.
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