William's Lake and Canoe Creek, British Columbia (1881 census)

William's Lake and Canoe Creek was a census subdivision in British Columbia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,329. The administrative centroid was at approximately 52.230°N, 121.200°W.

Population

In 1881, William's Lake and Canoe Creek had a population of 1,329: 767 male and 562 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 (1.9% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, William's Lake and Canoe Creek shared boundaries with:

• Clinton, Lillooet
• Coast of main land
• Keithley Creek
• Kootenai
• Quesnelmouth
• Richfield, Barkerville & Lightning 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 1,329 total population, 767 males, 562 females, 306 families, 147 married persons, 74 married females, 73 married males, 14 widowed females, 14 widowed persons. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,168 single persons under 18, 694 single males under 18, 474 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 306 occupied houses, 155 inhabited houses, 151 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 4 uninhabited houses, 1 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 16,158 bushels of spring wheat, 13,116 bushels of potatoes, 12,410 bushels of barley, 7,188 bushels of oats, 5,162 bushels of peas and beans, 3,771 tons of hay, 3,381 acres of hay crops, 2,525 bushels of turnips, 768 acres of wheat, 270 bushels of winter wheat, 200 bushels of other root crops, 81 acres of potatoes. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,053 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: BC189003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_BC189003 — 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). "William's Lake and Canoe Creek, British Columbia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/bc/william-s-lake-and-canoe-creek-bc189003-1881/.