Settrington

Settrington is a township in the municipality of Saguenay, Québec, Canada.

1851 Census
The 1851 Census of Canada reported a population of 281 people, all French Canadian and Roman Catholic, in 43 wood houses. These included 51 household heads, 264 family members, 14 somethings, and 4 somethings. These also included 135 males and 146 females, 180 married and 177 non-married, 2 widows, and 2 somethings. During 1851 there were 9 deaths and 9 births.

The township had two flour mills and a water-powered wood mill valued at £600 and providing £65 of resources annually. There were forty-four farmland owners, totaling 4417 arpents (4411 acres) of ground. These combined harvested 436 bushels of wheat, 1262 of barley, 1036 of rye, 301 of peas, 203 of oat, 1 of buckwheat, 1103 of potato, 2880 of hay, 219 of flax, and 379 of wool. They produced 314 somethings of somethings, 305 of tissue, and 232 of flannel. They owned 30 cattle, 70 dairy cows, 44 calves, 31 horses, 196 sheep, and 79 pigs; they produced 285 pounds of butter and salted 39 barrels of lard.

The census taker remarked that a large portion of the harvests were lost to frosts, and hundreds of bushels of sown grain were burned in wood fires, which explained the little grain harvested in this township. He noted that this part of the country had only been cultivated for four or five years, and had been colonized by poor cultivators who were forced to abandon their previous parishes; therefore progress was necessarily slow. The occupation of several lots by rich citizens accelerated cultivation, which was slowed by the negligence of the government in witnessing the difficulties between various owners and squatters at the something lots.

He suggested that a little will and attention would metamorphose the area into fertile fields covered by the richest corn and bran, because the soil was generally good, something about cultivation, and the temperature gentle.

Residents

 * Elionore Harvey (at least 1851)
 * Louis Harvey (1829) (at least 1851)
 * Louis Harvey (1847) (at least 1851)
 * Augustin Harvey (at least 1851)
 * Paul Harvey (at least 1851)