Kootenai, British Columbia (1881 census)

Kootenai was a census subdivision in British Columbia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 863. The administrative centroid was at approximately 50.296°N, 116.704°W.

Population

In 1881, Kootenai had a population of 863: 547 male and 316 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 NO DATA, 1871 (7.9% share).

Later boundary forms

• In a later year, this CSD contained Kootenay, Lower, 1891 (54.3% of this CSD's polygon).
• In a later year, this CSD contained Kootenay, Upper, 1891 (45.7% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Kootenai shared boundaries with:

• Bow River
• Clinton, Lillooet
• Edmonton N
• Lytton and Cache Creek and Spence's Bridge and Kamloops
• Nicola, O’Kanagan
• Osoyoos
• Richfield, Barkerville & Lightning Creek
• William's Lake and Canoe Creek

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 29 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 863 total population, 547 males, 316 females, 248 married persons, 247 families, 126 married females, 122 married males, 30 widowed persons, 22 widowed females, 8 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 585 single persons under 18, 417 single males under 18, 168 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 247 occupied houses, 176 inhabited houses, 71 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 47 uninhabited houses, 3 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 3,350 bushels of potatoes, 965 bushels of spring wheat, 365 bushels of barley, 345 bushels of winter wheat, 320 tons of hay, 300 bushels of oats, 250 bushels of turnips, 112 acres of hay crops, 88 acres of wheat, 20 bushels of peas and beans, 18 acres of potatoes. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 949 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: BC190005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_BC190005 — 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 1881 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). "Kootenai, British Columbia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/bc/kootenai-bc190005-1881/.