Franklin, Sinclair, Ontario (1881 census)

Franklin, Sinclair was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 687. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.367°N, 79.042°W.

Population

In 1881, Franklin, Sinclair had a population of 687: 386 male and 301 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 Franklin, Sinclair & Chaffey, 1891 (66.7% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Franklin, Sinclair shared boundaries with:

• Chaffey, Perry, Bethune, Proudfoot
• Mclean, Ridout
• NO DATA
• Stanhope, Sherburne, McClintock
• Stephenson. Brunel

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 34 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 687 total population, 386 males, 301 females, 219 married persons, 127 families, 110 married males, 109 married females, 10 widowed persons, 8 widowed males, 2 widowed females. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 458 single persons under 18, 268 single males under 18, 190 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 127 occupied houses, 126 inhabited houses, 9 uninhabited houses, 4 houses under construction, 1 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 20,686 bushels of turnips, 12,463 bushels of potatoes, 9,218 bushels of oats, 2,559 bushels of spring wheat, 1,630 bushels of corn, 1,098 bushels of peas and beans, 806 bushels of buckwheat, 631 bushels of other root crops, 356 tons of hay, 336 acres of hay crops, 259 acres of wheat, 105 bushels of barley, 89 acres of potatoes, 63 bushels of winter wheat, 51 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 23 bushels of rye. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 687 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: ON131012 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON131012 — 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). "Franklin, Sinclair, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/franklin-sinclair-on131012-1881/.