Christie, Monteith, Ontario (1881 census)

Christie, Monteith was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 594. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.394°N, 79.703°W.

Population

In 1881, Christie, Monteith had a population of 594: 344 male and 250 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.

Later boundary forms

• In a later year, this CSD became part of Monteith, Spence & Christie, 1891 (66.3% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Christie, Monteith shared boundaries with:

• Foley, Cowper, McDougall
• Humphrey, Conger
• McKellar, Hagerman
• McMurrich & Stisted
• Spence Croft
• Watt, Cardwell

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 594 total population, 344 males, 250 females, 203 married persons, 118 families, 102 married males, 101 married females, 7 widowed persons, 5 widowed males, 2 widowed females. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 384 single persons under 18, 237 single males under 18, 147 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 118 occupied houses, 115 inhabited houses, 20 uninhabited houses, 7 houses under construction, 3 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 11,952 bushels of turnips, 11,115 bushels of potatoes, 7,972 bushels of oats, 1,324 bushels of peas and beans, 1,265 bushels of spring wheat, 460 tons of hay, 450 acres of hay crops, 259 bushels of rye, 200 bushels of other root crops, 138 bushels of corn, 133 acres of wheat, 112 bushels of barley, 82 acres of potatoes, 12 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 9 bushels of winter wheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 594 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: ON131018 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON131018 — 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). "Christie, Monteith, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/christie-monteith-on131018-1881/.