HGIS CanadaOntarioChapman, Strong, Joly › 1881
Year: 1881  |  Province: Ontario

Chapman, Strong, Joly, Ontario (1881 census)

Chapman, Strong, Joly was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,744. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.745°N, 79.412°W.

Population

In 1881, Chapman, Strong, Joly had a population of 1,744: 972 male and 772 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

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Chapman, Strong, Joly shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 33 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,744 total population, 972 males, 772 females, 504 married persons, 326 families, 253 married males, 251 married females, 31 widowed persons, 16 widowed males, 15 widowed females. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,209 single persons under 18, 703 single males under 18, 506 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 325 inhabited houses, 325 occupied houses, 42 uninhabited houses, 19 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 34,319 bushels of turnips, 26,282 bushels of potatoes, 21,443 bushels of oats, 3,674 bushels of other root crops, 3,465 bushels of spring wheat, 2,093 bushels of peas and beans, 1,483 bushels of barley, 1,121 tons of hay, 1,010 acres of hay crops, 515 bushels of winter wheat, 514 bushels of corn, 426 acres of wheat, 285 acres of potatoes, 250 bushels of buckwheat, 100 bushels of rye, 55 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,744 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

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). "Chapman, Strong, Joly, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/chapman-strong-joly-on131022-1881/.