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Year: 1881  |  Province: Manitoba

High Bluff, Poplar Point, Manitoba (1881 census)

High Bluff, Poplar Point was a census subdivision in Manitoba, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 812. The administrative centroid was at approximately 50.012°N, 98.083°W.

Population

In 1881, High Bluff, Poplar Point had a population of 812: 453 male and 359 female residents. Population density was 11.8 people per square mile.

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, High Bluff, Poplar Point shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 61 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)
VariableValue
FAM NO139
Number of families139
Number of females359
Number of males453
Number of married females116
Number of married males117
Number of married persons233
Number of widowed females10
Number of widowed males8
Number of widowed persons18
POP TOT812
Total population812
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18233
Number of single males under 18328
Number of single persons under 18561
Buildings & housing (5 variables)
VariableValue
Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties8
Number of houses under construction3
Number of inhabited houses130
Number of occupied houses138
Number of uninhabited houses4
Agriculture (22 variables)
VariableValue
Acres of hay crops1,215
Acres of potatoes63
Acres of wheat1,323
BAR BU7,452
Bushels of barley produced in the past year7,452
Bushels of corn produced in the past year10
Bushels of oats produced in the past year52,878
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year583
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year151
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year10,486
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year27,011
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year482
CRN BU10
HAY AC1,215
HAY TONS3,839
OAT BU52,878
PEA AND BEN BU151
POT AC63
POT BU10,486
Tons of hay produced in the past year3,839
WHT AC1,323
WHT SP BU27,011
Other recorded variables (19 variables)
VariableValue
C UNMD F233
C UNMD M328
C UNMD TOT561
D OCC138
FEMALE359
H CON3
H INHAB130
H UNINH4
MALE453
MD F116
MD M117
MD TOT233
NUMBER CD186
OTHR ROOT BU583
SHAN8
TUR BU482
WID F10
WID M8
WID TOT18

Identifiers

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). "High Bluff, Poplar Point, Manitoba (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/mb/high-bluff-poplar-point-mb186006-1881/.