Lac La Hache, British Columbia (1891 census)

Lac La Hache was a census subdivision in British Columbia, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 207. The administrative centroid was at approximately 51.680°N, 119.822°W.

Population

In 1891, Lac La Hache had a population of 207: 127 male and 80 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 Clinton, Lillooet, 1881 (25.4% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Lac La Hache shared boundaries with:

• Alkali Lake
• Big Bar
• Kamloops
• Kootenay, Upper
• Williams’ Lake

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 75 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 207 total population, 127 males, 80 females, 70 married persons, 37 families, 36 married males, 34 married females, 5.60 average size of families, 2 widowed females, 2 widowed persons. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 135 single persons under 18, 91 single males under 18, 44 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 207 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 34 occupied houses, 31 houses, 31 houses built of wood, 23 houses of 1 story, 14 houses of 1 room, 8 houses of 2 stories, 6 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 4 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 4 uninhabited houses, 3 dwellings that are vessels and shanties, 2 houses of 2 rooms, 2 houses of 4 rooms, 2 houses under construction, 1 houses of 3 rooms, 1 houses of 5 rooms, 1 houses of over 15 rooms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 28,100 pounds of homemade butter, 8,512 acres of land in farms, 8,192 acres of farmland in pasture, 2,242 tons of hay, 2,235 acres of hay crops, 2,100 bushels of barley, 1,970 bushels of oats, 1,060 bushels of potatoes, 945 bushels of turnips, 911 other cattle, 700 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 681 chickens, 589 milk cows, 586 horses aged over 3 years, 571 cattle killed or sold, 466 bushels of rye, 320 acres of improved land in farms, 310 bushels of spring wheat, 307 acres of farmland under crops, 283 horses aged 3 years and under, 128 swine, 126 acres of oats, 115 acres of barley, 76 swine slaughtered or sold, 32 occupants of farms, 32 sheep, 16 acres of wheat, 16 farm occupants who own their land, 15 acres of potatoes, 14 farm occupants who rent their land, 14 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 13 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 13 sheep slaughtered or sold, 11 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 10 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 10 turkeys, 9 acres of turnips, 9 ducks, 6 other fowl, 4 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 2 employees on farms, 2 geese, 2 oxen, 2 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 1 persons living on farms under 10 acres. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: BC001006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_BC001006 — 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 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). "Lac La Hache, British Columbia (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/bc/lac-la-hache-bc001006-1891/.