Year: 1891
| Province: Ontario
Garden Island, Village, Ontario (1891 census)
Garden Island, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 412. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.201°N, 76.465°W.
Population
In 1891, Garden Island, Village had a population of 412: 209 male and 203 female residents.
Population trajectory across census years
Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).
Full census record, 1891
The 1891 census recorded 104 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (15 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Average size of families | 5.40 |
| FAM NO | 76 |
| Number of families | 76 |
| Number of females | 203 |
| Number of males | 209 |
| Number of married females | 68 |
| Number of married males | 68 |
| Number of married persons | 136 |
| Number of widowed females | 10 |
| Number of widowed males | 4 |
| Number of widowed persons | 14 |
| POP F | 203 |
| POP M | 209 |
| POP TOT | 412 |
| Total population | 412 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 125 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 137 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 262 |
Ethnic origin (2 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of French Canadians | 147 |
| Number of persons who are not French Canadian | 265 |
Buildings & housing (13 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses | 76 |
| Number of houses built of wood | 76 |
| Number of houses of 1 story | 3 |
| Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms | 4 |
| Number of houses of 2 rooms | 1 |
| Number of houses of 2 stories | 70 |
| Number of houses of 3 rooms | 1 |
| Number of houses of 3 stories | 3 |
| Number of houses of 4 rooms | 10 |
| Number of houses of 5 rooms | 35 |
| Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms | 25 |
| Number of occupied houses | 76 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 4 |
Agriculture (28 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of farmland in pasture | 56 |
| Acres of farmland under crops | 19 |
| Acres of hay crops | 12 |
| Acres of improved land in farms | 75 |
| Acres of land in farms | 75 |
| Acres of oats | 6 |
| Acres of potatoes | 1 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 300 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 150 |
| HAY AC | 12 |
| HAY TONS | 25 |
| Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year | 3 |
| Number of chickens | 24 |
| Number of ducks | 3 |
| Number of farm occupants who own their land | 2 |
| Number of horses aged 3 years and under | 2 |
| Number of horses aged over 3 years | 15 |
| Number of milk cows | 11 |
| Number of occupants of farms | 2 |
| Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres | 2 |
| Number of swine | 1 |
| Number of swine slaughtered or sold | 2 |
| OAT AC | 6 |
| OAT BU | 300 |
| POT AC | 1 |
| POT BU | 150 |
| Pounds of homemade butter | 240 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 25 |
Other recorded variables (43 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| A 11 50 | 2 |
| BUTTER LB | 240 |
| CATTLE KS | 3 |
| CHILD AND UNMD FEM | 125 |
| CHILD AND UNMD MALE | 137 |
| CHILD AND UNMD TOT | 262 |
| COLTS FILLIES | 2 |
| DUCKS | 3 |
| FAMILIES | 76 |
| FAMILIES AV SIZE | 5.40 |
| FRN CA | 147 |
| HENS AND CHKN | 24 |
| HORSES OVR THREE | 15 |
| HOUSES | 76 |
| HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM | 4 |
| HOUSES FIVE RM | 35 |
| HOUSES FOUR RM | 10 |
| HOUSES ONE STRY | 3 |
| HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM | 25 |
| HOUSES THREE RM | 1 |
| HOUSES THREE STRY | 3 |
| HOUSES TWO RM | 1 |
| HOUSES TWO STRY | 70 |
| HOUSES UNINH | 4 |
| HOUSES W | 76 |
| MD FEM | 68 |
| MD MALE | 68 |
| MD TOT | 136 |
| MILK COWS | 11 |
| NAME CD | Frontenac |
| OC P | 2 |
| OC TOT | 2 |
| OTHERS | 265 |
| SUP AM | 75 |
| SUP PAT | 56 |
| SUP SC | 19 |
| SUP TOT | 75 |
| SWINE | 1 |
| SWINE KS | 2 |
| TOT DWLG OCC | 76 |
| WID FEM | 10 |
| WID MALE | 4 |
| WID TOT | 14 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
ON064001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_ON069018 — 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). "Garden Island, Village, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/garden-island-village-on064001-1891/.