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Year: 1881  |  Province: Northwest Territories

Labrador, Northwest Territories (1881 census)

Labrador was a census subdivision in Northwest Territories, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,035. The administrative centroid was at approximately 55.091°N, 59.155°W.

Population

In 1881, Labrador had a population of 1,035: 502 male and 533 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, Labrador shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 16 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,035 total population, 533 females, 502 males, 422 married persons, 225 families, 224 married females, 198 married males, 36 widowed persons, 35 widowed females, 1 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 577 single persons under 18, 303 single males under 18, 274 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 225 occupied houses, 220 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 5 inhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

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). "Labrador, Northwest Territories (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nt/labrador-nt193017-1881/.