My Friday night fun was reading through The Weekly Chronicle on the BAnQ website (Quebec archives) and I came across this letter to the editor –

The Weekly Chronicle Sept. 8, 1891.
Census
Sir, – Reading Mr. Lortie’s letter in yesterday’s Chronicle, reminds me that I was never called on by the census official. This makes three more unregistered citizens, and I have no doubt many more can tell the same tale. I enclose my card, Yours Truly, St. Ursule Street Quebec, 8th Sept., 1891
This may be the answer to my never-ending quest to find Samuel Jordan in earlier Quebec City census records.