Year: 1881
| Province: Ontario
Garden Island, Village, Ontario (1881 census)
Garden Island, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 495. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.201°N, 76.465°W.
Population
In 1881, Garden Island, Village had a population of 495: 247 male and 248 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, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 49 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 85 |
| Number of families | 85 |
| Number of females | 248 |
| Number of males | 247 |
| Number of married females | 82 |
| Number of married males | 82 |
| Number of married persons | 164 |
| Number of widowed females | 8 |
| Number of widowed males | 2 |
| Number of widowed persons | 10 |
| POP TOT | 495 |
| Total population | 495 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 158 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 163 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 321 |
Buildings & housing (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of inhabited houses | 82 |
| Number of occupied houses | 82 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 5 |
Agriculture (16 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 8 |
| Acres of potatoes | 1 |
| Acres of wheat | 8 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 200 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 60 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 100 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 60 |
| HAY AC | 8 |
| HAY TONS | 16 |
| OAT BU | 200 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 60 |
| POT AC | 1 |
| POT BU | 100 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 16 |
| WHT AC | 8 |
| WHT SP BU | 60 |
Other recorded variables (15 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| C UNMD F | 158 |
| C UNMD M | 163 |
| C UNMD TOT | 321 |
| D OCC | 82 |
| FEMALE | 248 |
| H INHAB | 82 |
| H UNINH | 5 |
| MALE | 247 |
| MD F | 82 |
| MD M | 82 |
| MD TOT | 164 |
| NUMBER CD | 115 |
| WID F | 8 |
| WID M | 2 |
| WID TOT | 10 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
ON115003 — 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 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). "Garden Island, Village, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/garden-island-village-on115003-1881/.