Cache Creek, British Columbia (1891 census)
Cache Creek was a census subdivision in British Columbia, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 697. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q986003. The administrative centroid was at approximately 50.465°N, 121.635°W.
Population
In 1891, Cache Creek had a population of 697: 423 male and 274 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 Lytton and Cache Creek and Spence's Bridge and Kamloops, 1881 (14.0% share).
Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891
In the 1891 census, Cache Creek shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1891
The 1891 census recorded 79 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.
Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 697 total population, 423 males, 274 females, 242 married persons, 137 families, 128 married males, 114 married females, 43 widowed persons, 23 widowed males, 20 widowed females, 5.10 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)
Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 412 single persons under 18, 272 single males under 18, 140 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)
Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 692 persons who are not French Canadian, 5 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)
Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 134 occupied houses, 133 houses, 133 houses built of wood, 119 houses of 1 story, 56 houses of 1 room, 25 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 18 houses of 2 rooms, 13 houses of 2 stories, 11 houses of 3 rooms, 10 houses of 4 rooms, 9 uninhabited houses, 8 houses of 5 rooms, 3 houses of over 15 rooms, 2 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 1 dwellings that are vessels and shanties, 1 houses of 3 stories. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)
Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 23,866 acres of land in farms, 22,286 acres of farmland in pasture, 14,441 bushels of potatoes, 7,676 other cattle, 6,943 bushels of barley, 5,288 bushels of oats, 5,001 bushels of turnips, 4,835 pounds of homemade butter, 3,999 tons of hay, 2,818 acres of hay crops, 2,639 bushels of spring wheat, 2,604 bushels of beans, 2,334 cattle killed or sold, 2,287 chickens, 1,988 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 1,739 horses aged over 3 years, 995 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 884 horses aged 3 years and under, 884 sheep, 595 bushels of peas, 585 acres of improved land in farms, 523 acres of farmland under crops, 366 swine, 222 swine slaughtered or sold, 165 acres of barley, 147 acres of oats, 109 sheep slaughtered or sold, 107 occupants of farms, 102 milk cows, 96 acres of wheat, 70 bushels of corn, 70 farm occupants who own their land, 69 acres of potatoes, 66 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 62 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 62 turkeys, 37 other fowl, 36 farm occupants who rent their land, 28 oxen, 20 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 16 acres of turnips, 14 ducks, 12 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 6 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 5 geese, 3 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 1 employees on farms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)
People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 1 person connected to this place who were alive in 1891, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.
| Name | Lifespan | Connection |
|---|---|---|
| C. A. (Charles Augustus) Semlin | 1836–1927 | died here |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
BC005001— year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file - Persistent place ID:
PLACE_BC005001— computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years - Wikidata: Q986003
Sources
Census tabulations from the 1891 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). "Cache Creek, British Columbia (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/bc/cache-creek-bc005001-1891/.