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Year: 1881  |  Province: Manitoba

Morris W-O, Manitoba (1881 census)

Morris W-O was a census subdivision in Manitoba, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,526. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.363°N, 97.359°W.

Population

In 1881, Morris W-O had a population of 2,526: 1,425 male and 1,101 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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Morris W-O shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 30 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 2,526 total population, 1,425 males, 1,101 females, 862 married persons, 481 families, 445 married males, 417 married females, 47 widowed persons, 29 widowed males, 18 widowed females. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,617 single persons under 18, 951 single males under 18, 666 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 432 occupied houses, 431 inhabited houses, 50 houses under construction, 47 uninhabited houses, 1 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 98,878 bushels of oats, 77,368 bushels of spring wheat, 28,496 bushels of potatoes, 24,232 bushels of barley, 12,535 bushels of turnips, 9,204 tons of hay, 4,567 bushels of other root crops, 3,684 acres of wheat, 3,661 acres of hay crops, 1,093 bushels of peas and beans, 654 bushels of corn, 188 acres of potatoes. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 2,526 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

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). "Morris W-O, Manitoba (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/mb/morris-w-o-mb184001-1881/.