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Year: 1891  |  Province: Ontario

Fort Francis, Ontario (1891 census)

Fort Francis was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,339. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.055°N, 94.315°W.

Population

In 1891, Fort Francis had a population of 1,339: 735 male and 604 female residents. Population density was 100.4 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.

Earlier boundary forms

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Fort Francis shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 166 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)
VariableValue
Average size of families4.10
FAM NO314
Number of families314
Number of females604
Number of males735
Number of married females229
Number of married males230
Number of married persons459
Number of widowed females28
Number of widowed males24
Number of widowed persons52
POP F604
POP M735
POP TOT1,339
Total population1,339
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18347
Number of single males under 18481
Number of single persons under 18828
Ethnic origin (2 variables)
VariableValue
Number of French Canadians25
Number of persons who are not French Canadian1,314
Buildings & housing (16 variables)
VariableValue
Number of dwellings that are vessels and shanties208
Number of houses105
Number of houses built of wood105
Number of houses of 1 room28
Number of houses of 1 story91
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms1
Number of houses of 2 rooms30
Number of houses of 2 stories14
Number of houses of 3 rooms13
Number of houses of 4 rooms11
Number of houses of 5 rooms5
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms16
Number of houses of over 15 rooms1
Number of houses under construction9
Number of occupied houses313
Number of uninhabited houses15
Agriculture (63 variables)
VariableValue
Acres of barley36
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards138
Acres of farmland in pasture495
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest16,246
Acres of farmland under crops939
Acres of hay crops375
Acres of improved land in farms1,572
Acres of land in farms17,818
Acres of oats105
Acres of potatoes151
Acres of turnips10
Acres of wheat43
BAR AC36
BAR BU615
Bushels of barley produced in the past year615
Bushels of beans produced in the past year6
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year75
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year3
Bushels of corn produced in the past year110
Bushels of oats produced in the past year2,108
Bushels of peas produced in the past year104
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year12,924
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year698
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year1,159
BWT BU75
CRN BU110
HAY AC375
HAY TONS492
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year8
Number of chickens448
Number of ducks3
Number of employees on farms2
Number of farm occupants who own their land155
Number of farm occupants who rent their land21
Number of geese6
Number of horses aged 3 years and under7
Number of horses aged over 3 years80
Number of milk cows100
Number of occupants of farms178
Number of other cattle129
Number of other fowl2
Number of oxen62
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres42
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres13
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres4
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres21
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres98
Number of sheep32
Number of swine92
Number of swine slaughtered or sold1
Number of turkeys11
OAT AC105
OAT BU2,108
PEA BU104
POT AC151
POT BU12,924
Pounds of cheese produced on farms in the past year476
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year98
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year75
Pounds of homemade butter4,184
Tons of hay produced in the past year492
WHT AC43
WHT SP BU698
Other recorded variables (67 variables)
VariableValue
A 101 20042
A 11 5013
A 201 PL21
A 51 1004
BEN BU6
BUTTER LB4,184
CATTLE KS8
CHEESE LB476
CHILD AND UNMD FEM347
CHILD AND UNMD MALE481
CHILD AND UNMD TOT828
COARSE WOOL LB98
COLTS FILLIES7
DUCKS3
FAMILIES314
FAMILIES AV SIZE4.20
FINE WOOL LB75
FRN CA25
GEESE6
GRA BU3
HENS AND CHKN448
HORSES OVR THREE80
HOUSES105
HOUSES CON9
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM1
HOUSES FIVE RM5
HOUSES FOUR RM11
HOUSES ONE RM28
HOUSES ONE STRY91
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM16
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM1
HOUSES THREE RM13
HOUSES TWO RM30
HOUSES TWO STRY14
HOUSES UNINH15
HOUSES W105
INF 11 A98
MD FEM229
MD MALE230
MD TOT459
MILK COWS100
NAME CDAlgoma (Eastern Division-Est.)
OC E2
OC F21
OC P155
OC TOT178
OTHER FOWL2
OTHER HRN CATTLE129
OTHERS1,314
SHEEP32
SUP AM1,572
SUP FOR16,246
SUP JV138
SUP PAT495
SUP SC939
SUP TOT17,818
SWINE92
SWINE KS1
TOT DWLG OCC313
TUR AC10
TUR BU1,159
TURKEY11
VESS AND SHAN208
WID FEM28
WID MALE24
WID TOT52
WORKING OX62

Identifiers

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). "Fort Francis, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/fort-francis-on046028-1891/.