Eastern Rupert's Land, Northwest Territories (1881 census)

Eastern Rupert's Land was a census subdivision in Northwest Territories, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 4,349. The administrative centroid was at approximately 55.029°N, 74.931°W.

Population

In 1881, Eastern Rupert's Land had a population of 4,349: 2,181 male and 2,168 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 NO DATA, 1871 (19.7% share).

Later boundary forms

• In a later year, this CSD contained NO DATA, 1891 (76.6% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Eastern Rupert's Land shared boundaries with:

• Labrador
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Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 26 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 4,349 total population, 2,181 males, 2,168 females, 1,650 married persons, 958 families, 859 married females, 791 married males, 189 widowed persons, 136 widowed females, 53 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 2,510 single persons under 18, 1,337 single males under 18, 1,173 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 946 occupied houses, 863 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 82 inhabited houses, 2 uninhabited houses, 1 dwellings that are temporary vessels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 2,466 bushels of potatoes, 273 tons of hay, 136 acres of hay crops, 47 bushels of turnips, 34 acres of potatoes, 7 bushels of oats, 4 bushels of barley, 1 bushels of other root crops. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 5 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 2,749 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: NT193016 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NT193016 — 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 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). "Eastern Rupert's Land, Northwest Territories (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nt/eastern-rupert-s-land-nt193016-1881/.