McKenzie, Northwest Territories (1881 census)

Name: McKenzie (1881)
Address: Northwest Territories, CA

McKenzie was a census subdivision in Northwest Territories, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 7,303. The administrative centroid was at approximately 63.331°N, 117.389°W.

Population

In 1881, McKenzie had a population of 7,303: 3,537 male and 3,766 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 (31.3% share).

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD became part of The Unorganized Territories, 1891 (43.1% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, McKenzie shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 19 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 7,303 total population, 3,766 females, 3,537 males, 2,939 married persons, 1,567 families, 1,558 married females, 1,381 married males, 257 widowed persons, 250 widowed females, 7 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 4,107 single persons under 18, 2,149 single males under 18, 1,958 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 1,567 occupied houses, 1,540 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 27 inhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 600 bushels of potatoes, 56 bushels of barley, 9 acres of potatoes. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 14 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
James Bird	1798–1892	born here
Pascal Breland	1811–1896	born here
Marie-Rose Piwapiskus	1840–1931	born here
Pītikwahanapiwīyin	1842–1886	born here
Peyasiw-Awasis	1849–1927	born here
Kanaka	1855–1925	born here
Keish	1855–1916	born here
Isabella Clark Hardisty	1861–1936	born here
Kate Carmack	1862–1920	born here
Archibald Glenlyon Campbell	1863–1917	born here
Gilbert Favel	1864–1902	born here
Amelia Anne McLean	1867–1922	born here
Elizabeth Lessard	1877–1911	born here
Édouard Beaupré	1881–1904	born here

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 246 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: NT193015 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NT193015 — 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). "McKenzie, Northwest Territories (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nt/mckenzie-nt193015-1881/.