Conger, Cowper & Foley, Ontario (1891 census)

Name: Conger, Cowper & Foley (1891)
Address: Ontario, CA

Conger, Cowper & Foley was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 502. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.236°N, 79.946°W.

Population

In 1891, Conger, Cowper & Foley had a population of 502: 279 male and 223 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 contained Conger & Cowper, 1901 (62.7% of this CSD's polygon).
In a later year, this CSD contained Foley, 1901 (37.2% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Conger, Cowper & Foley shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 80 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 502 total population, 279 males, 223 females, 159 married persons, 104 families, 80 married males, 79 married females, 18 widowed persons, 10 widowed females, 8 widowed males, 4.80 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 325 single persons under 18, 191 single males under 18, 134 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 487 persons who are not French Canadian, 15 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 102 occupied houses, 100 houses, 100 houses built of wood, 64 houses of 1 story, 36 houses of 2 stories, 22 houses of 2 rooms, 22 houses of 3 rooms, 21 houses of 4 rooms, 19 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 11 houses of 5 rooms, 4 houses of 1 room, 2 dwellings that are vessels and shanties, 1 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 1 houses under construction, 1 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 32,130 pounds of homemade butter, 23,855 acres of land in farms, 21,073 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 8,393 bushels of potatoes, 7,895 bushels of turnips, 5,769 bushels of oats, 2,782 acres of improved land in farms, 2,096 acres of farmland under crops, 1,657 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 1,350 acres of hay crops, 1,237 chickens, 1,168 bushels of corn, 1,167 tons of hay, 1,082 bushels of peas, 646 acres of farmland in pasture, 538 sheep, 388 other cattle, 348 acres of oats, 243 milk cows, 162 sheep slaughtered or sold, 142 bushels of barley, 135 bushels of rye, 135 swine slaughtered or sold, 132 swine, 124 occupants of farms, 123 cattle killed or sold, 120 farm occupants who own their land, 89 horses aged over 3 years, 77 acres of potatoes, 58 geese, 55 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 46 acres of turnips, 41 turkeys, 40 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 36 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 32 horses aged 3 years and under, 30 bushels of spring wheat, 30 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 20 ducks, 18 bushels of buckwheat, 14 acres of barley, 13 oxen, 9 other fowl, 5 bushels of beans, 4 farm occupants who rent their land, 3 acres of wheat, 2 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 1 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 1 persons living on farms under 10 acres. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON095007 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON095007 — 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 1891 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). "Conger, Cowper & Foley, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/conger-cowper-foley-on095007-1891/.