Amabel & Saugeen I R, Ontario (1911 census)

Name: Amabel & Saugeen I R (1911)
Address: Ontario, CA

Note on Indian Reserves in the Census of Canada. The 1851–1921 censuses enumerated First Nations populations on reserves inconsistently across years and regions, sometimes naming individual reserves and sometimes aggregating them under a generic "Indian Reserves" bundle per Census District. This page reflects the historical census record as published; it is not an authoritative description of any specific First Nation, band, or reserve. For accurate information, consult the annual reports of the Department of Indian Affairs (1864–present, available through Library and Archives Canada), the Indigenous Services Canada First Nation Profiles, and First Nations communities directly.

Amabel & Saugeen I R was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 2,795. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.638°N, 81.221°W.

Population

In 1911, Amabel & Saugeen I R had a population of 2,795: 1,459 male and 1,336 female residents. Population density was 19.1 people per square mile.

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.

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD contained Amabel, 1921 (87.0% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, Amabel & Saugeen I R shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 37 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 93,833 area in acres, 2,795 total population, 1,459 males in the population, 1,336 females in the population, 873 single (never-married) males, 733 single (never-married) females, 538 married males, 517 married females, 508 families, 146.61 area in square miles, 78 widowed females, 41 widowed males, 19.06 population per square mile, 8 females with marital status not given, 7 males with marital status not given. 3,587 population in the previous census (1901 reference column included in 1911 V1T1). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Ethnic origin (1911). This community's record includes 868 persons of British origin (Irish), 680 persons of British origin (English), 511 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 160 persons of German origin, 20 persons of French origin, 19 persons of Dutch origin. 528 persons recorded under the official census category "Indian"; corresponds to what is now described as Indigenous (First Nations; in northern enumerations also Inuit) origin. "Indian" was simultaneously a census category and the legal/administrative term under the Indian Act (1876). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

Religion (1911). This community's record includes 1,548 Methodists, 710 Presbyterians, 221 Anglicans (Church of England), 114 Roman Catholics, 73 Baptists, 63 Mormons (Latter-day Saints), 26 Lutherans, 16 Disciples of Christ, 9 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified, 8 Mennonites, 6 Congregationalists, 1 Protestants (general / no denomination specified), 1 Salvation Army adherents. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2; V2T7.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 505 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON059002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON059002 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
External authority links suppressed for Indian Reserve entries. See methodological note above.

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1911 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). "Amabel & Saugeen I R, Ontario (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/amabel-saugeen-i-r-on059002-1911/.