Winnipeg, Ward—Quartier No. 1, Manitoba (1891 census)

Name: Winnipeg, Ward—Quartier No. 1 (1891)
Address: Manitoba, CA

Winnipeg, Ward—Quartier No. 1 was a census subdivision in Manitoba, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 930. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.864°N, 97.167°W.

Population

In 1891, Winnipeg, Ward—Quartier No. 1 had a population of 930: 449 male and 481 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 St. Boniface, 1881 (10.6% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Winnipeg, Ward—Quartier No. 1 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 60 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 930 total population, 481 females, 449 males, 318 married persons, 174 families, 161 married males, 157 married females, 24 widowed persons, 18 widowed females, 6 widowed males, 5.30 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 588 single persons under 18, 306 single females under 18, 282 single males under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 888 persons who are not French Canadian, 42 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 170 houses, 170 occupied houses, 156 houses built of wood, 116 houses of 2 stories, 80 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 47 houses of 1 story, 19 houses of 3 rooms, 18 houses of 5 rooms, 18 uninhabited houses, 17 houses of 2 rooms, 16 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 15 houses of 4 rooms, 14 houses built of brick, 9 houses under construction, 6 houses of 3 stories, 3 houses of over 15 rooms, 2 houses of 1 room, 1 houses of more than 3 stories. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 1,170 chickens, 200 bushels of potatoes, 144 milk cows, 106 other cattle, 100 bushels of barley, 100 sheep slaughtered or sold, 100 pounds of homemade butter, 87 horses aged over 3 years, 50 bushels of spring wheat, 32 swine, 30 horses aged 3 years and under, 24 oxen, 14 acres of land in farms, 14 ducks, 13 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 13 acres of improved land in farms, 6 acres of barley, 4 turkeys, 3 acres of wheat, 3 farm occupants who own their land, 3 occupants of farms, 3 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 2 geese, 2 other fowl, 1 acres of farmland in pasture, 1 acres of potatoes. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: MB010001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_MB010001 — 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 1891 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, Ward—Quartier No. 1, Manitoba (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/mb/winnipeg-ward-quartier-no-1-mb010001-1891/.