St. Andrews, Manitoba (1881 census)

St. Andrews was a census subdivision in Manitoba, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,366. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q1661409. The administrative centroid was at approximately 50.312°N, 97.013°W.

Population

In 1881, St. Andrews had a population of 2,366: 1,242 male and 1,124 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

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 (0.7% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, St. Andrews shared boundaries with:

• North Eastern
• Rockwood
• Springfield
• St. Clément
• St. Paul

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 33 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 2,366 total population, 1,242 males, 1,124 females, 810 married persons, 454 families, 405 married females, 405 married males, 86 widowed persons, 61 widowed females, 25 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,470 single persons under 18, 812 single males under 18, 658 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 447 occupied houses, 429 inhabited houses, 40 uninhabited houses, 17 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 13 houses under construction, 1 dwellings that are temporary vessels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 18,661 bushels of spring wheat, 14,991 bushels of potatoes, 14,161 bushels of oats, 7,032 tons of hay, 5,283 bushels of barley, 3,290 acres of hay crops, 1,540 bushels of turnips, 1,081 bushels of other root crops, 903 acres of wheat, 151 bushels of corn, 123 acres of potatoes, 63 bushels of peas and beans, 34 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 5 bushels of buckwheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 2 people connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 2,368 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: MB185003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_MB022003 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q1661409
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Municipality_of_St._Andrews
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Andrews_(Manitoba)

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). "St. Andrews, Manitoba (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/mb/st-andrews-mb185003-1881/.