Winnipeg, C, Manitoba (1881 census)

Name: Winnipeg, C (1881)
Address: Manitoba, CA

Winnipeg, C was a city in Manitoba, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 7,985. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q2135. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.896°N, 97.171°W.

Population

In 1881, Winnipeg, C had a population of 7,985: 4,648 male and 3,337 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	7,985
1921	179,087

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 (0.0% share).

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD contained Winnipeg, Ward—Quartier No. 2, 1891 (12.2% of this CSD's polygon).
In a later year, this CSD contained Winnipeg, Ward—Quartier No. 4, 1891 (21.3% of this CSD's polygon).
In a later year, this CSD contained Winnipeg, Ward—Quartier No. 3, 1891 (66.5% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Winnipeg, C shared boundaries with:

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 7,985 total population, 4,648 males, 3,337 females, 2,432 married persons, 1,427 families, 1,279 married males, 1,153 married females, 180 widowed persons, 113 widowed females, 67 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 5,373 single persons under 18, 3,302 single males under 18, 2,071 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 1,274 inhabited houses, 1,274 occupied houses, 195 houses under construction, 41 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 1,418 bushels of oats, 1,170 bushels of potatoes, 762 bushels of spring wheat, 440 bushels of other root crops, 180 bushels of turnips, 149 bushels of barley, 56 tons of hay, 42 acres of wheat, 39 acres of hay crops, 12 bushels of peas and beans, 7 acres of potatoes, 7 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 47 people connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Andrew McDermot	1790–1881	died here
Sally Ross	1798–1884	died here
John Black	1818–1882	died here
Edmund Burke Wood	1820–1882	died here
Aquila Walsh	1823–1885	died here
Charles Henry Wheeler	1838–1917	died here
James Andrews Miller	1839–1886	died here
Margaret Vallance	1840–1922	died here
Joseph E. Seagram	1841–1919	died here
William James McLean	1841–1929	died here
Hector Mansfield Howell	1842–1918	died here
James Henry Ashdown	1844–1924	died here
John Walter Harris	1845–1926	died here
Daniel Hunter McMillan Canadian politician (1846-1933)	1846–1933	died here
Frederic Beal Du Val	1847–1928	died here
Henry Norlande Ruttan	1848–1925	died here
Ralph Joseph Horner	1848–1926	died here
John Semmens	1850–1921	died here
Macdonald	1850–1929	died here
James Albert Manning Aikins	1851–1929	died here
John Maclean	1851–1928	died here
Spencer Argyle Bedford	1851–1933	died here
George Reading Crowe	1852–1924	died here
William Forbes Alloway	1852–1930	died here
John Duncan McArthur	1854–1927	died here
Elisha Frederick Hutchings	1855–1930	died here
George Frederick Galt	1855–1928	died here
James Simmons Freer	1855–1933	died here
Margaret Ruttan Boucher	1855–1931	died here
David Wesley Bole	1856–1933	died here
Cyril Genik	1857–1925	died here
T. A. (Theodore Arthur) Burrows	1857–1929	died here
Edmund Marter Wood	1858–1936	died here
John C. McRae	1859–1921	died here
Charles William Gordon	1860–1937	died here
James Duncan McGregor	1860–1935	died here
Robert Lorne Richardson	1860–1921	died here
Gordon Bell	1863–1923	died here
John Godefrey Sullivan	1863–1938	died here
Daniel Salmon Hamilton	1864–1929	died here
Thomas Herman Johnson	1870–1927	died here
Thomas Llewellyn Metcalfe	1870–1922	died here
William Blake Lawrence	1870–1918	died here
T. Glen (Thomas Glendenning) Hamilton	1873–1935	died here
David Alexander Stewart	1874–1937	died here
Rögnvaldur Pétursson	1877–1940	died here
Herbert Grahame Beresford	1880–1938	died here

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 7,985 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: MB183003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_MB160013 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q2135
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg

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). "Winnipeg, C, Manitoba (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/mb/winnipeg-c-mb183003-1881/.