Foley, Cowper, McDougall, Ontario (1881 census)

Foley, Cowper, McDougall was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 725. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.335°N, 79.985°W.

Population

In 1881, Foley, Cowper, McDougall had a population of 725: 412 male and 313 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 The Sound, 1871 (21.1% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Foley, Cowper, McDougall shared boundaries with:

• Christie, Monteith
• Ferguson, Carling & Burpee
• Humphrey, Conger
• McKellar, Hagerman
• Parry Sound (Village), Parry Island

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 725 total population, 412 males, 313 females, 220 married persons, 129 families, 112 married males, 108 married females, 18 widowed persons, 9 widowed females, 9 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 487 single persons under 18, 291 single males under 18, 196 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 129 occupied houses, 128 inhabited houses, 24 uninhabited houses, 5 houses under construction, 1 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 14,529 bushels of potatoes, 11,891 bushels of turnips, 9,405 bushels of oats, 1,777 bushels of other root crops, 1,536 acres of hay crops, 1,490 bushels of peas and beans, 1,187 tons of hay, 958 bushels of spring wheat, 404 bushels of corn, 370 bushels of rye, 220 bushels of buckwheat, 119 bushels of barley, 117 acres of potatoes, 108 acres of wheat, 28 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 725 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: ON131014 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON131014 — 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). "Foley, Cowper, McDougall, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/foley-cowper-mcdougall-on131014-1881/.