Muskoka (1871–1881), Ontario

Muskoka (1871–1881) was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1871–1881 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. Historic Muskoka District as 19th-century CD; not coterminous with modern Muskoka District Municipality (Q382508).

Population trajectory across census years

Aggregate population summed from constituent Census Subdivisions in this Census Division each year. Where the published 1851–1921 census volumes report a CD-level total, the figures should match within rounding; for cities split into wards, the per-CSD sum may diverge from the published CD aggregate.

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1871 census

• Conger wd (pop 40)
• Draper, Ryde, Oakley (pop 521)
• Humphry, Medora (pop 582)
• Lake Vernon (pop 227)
• Macaulay (pop 868)
• McLean, Brunel, Kidout, Franklin (pop 238)
• Monck (pop 535)
• Morrison (pop 601)
• Muskoka (pop 482)
• Stephenson (pop 505)
• Watt, Cardwell (pop 711)
• Wood (pop 90)

1881 census

• Chaffey, Perry, Bethune, Proudfoot (pop 2,315)
• Chapman, Strong, Joly (pop 1,744)
• Christie, Monteith (pop 594)
• Draper, Ryde, Oakley (pop 1,794)
• Ferguson, Carling & Burpee (pop 472)
• Foley, Cowper, McDougall (pop 725)
• Franklin, Sinclair (pop 687)
• Gravenhurst wd (pop 1,015)
• Humphrey, Conger (pop 607)
• Lount, Machar & Laurier (pop 407)
• Macauly, Bracebridge, Village (pop 2,135)
• McKellar, Hagerman (pop 1,056)
• McKenzie, Ferrie, Wilson, Mills, McConkey, Hardy (pop 277)
• Mclean, Ridout (pop 756)
• McMurrich & Stisted (pop 1,212)
• Medora, Wood (pop 1,116)
• Monck (pop 801)
• Morrison (pop 816)
• Muskoka (pop 1,135)
• Parry Sound (Village), Parry Island (pop 1,300)
• Pringle, Gurd, Himsworth, Nipissing (pop 955)
• Ryerson, Armour (pop 1,203)
• Shawanaga, Lake Shore (pop 521)
• Spence Croft (pop 843)
• Stephenson. Brunel (pop 1,604)
• Watt, Cardwell (pop 1,114)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

• Split off from Simcoe in 1871.
• Re-formed from Parry Sound (1871) in 1881.
• Split into Muskoka & Parry Sound in 1891.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Muskoka

Sources

Census Division boundaries derived from the Canadian Peoples / TCP 1851–1921 Census Subdivision boundary files (NAME_CD_<year> attributes, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan). Constituent-CSD memberships use the P10_falls_within CIDOC-CRM relationships emitted by the spatial CIDOC builder. Wikidata grounding for Census Divisions performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.