Petawawa, Centre, Ontario (1871 census)
Petawawa, Centre was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 17. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.955°N, 77.851°W.
Population
In 1871, Petawawa, Centre had a population of 17: 12 male and 5 female residents.
Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)
Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.
Earlier boundary forms
- In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Nipissing, 1861 (1.6% share).
Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871
In the 1871 census, Petawawa, Centre shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1871
The 1871 census recorded 14 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.
Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 17 total population, 12 males, 7 families, 5 females, 5 married persons, 3 married females, 3 married males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 12 single persons under 18, 9 single males under 18, 3 single females under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 7 occupied houses, 4 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 3 inhabited houses. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 231,200 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
ON083006— year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file - Persistent place ID:
PLACE_ON083006— computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years - Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.
Sources
Census tabulations from the 1871 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.
Cite this page
Clifford, J. (2026). "Petawawa, Centre, Ontario (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/petawawa-centre-on083006-1871/.