Garden River I R, Ontario (1911 census)

Name: Garden River I R (1911)
Address: Ontario, CA

Note on Indian Reserves in the Census of Canada. The 1851–1921 censuses enumerated First Nations populations on reserves inconsistently across years and regions, sometimes naming individual reserves and sometimes aggregating them under a generic "Indian Reserves" bundle per Census District. This page reflects the historical census record as published; it is not an authoritative description of any specific First Nation, band, or reserve. For accurate information, consult the annual reports of the Department of Indian Affairs (1864–present, available through Library and Archives Canada), the Indigenous Services Canada First Nation Profiles, and First Nations communities directly.

Garden River I R was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 594. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.580°N, 84.060°W.

Population

In 1911, Garden River I R had a population of 594: 27 male and 33 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 contained Kehoe, 1921 (33.7% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, Garden River I R shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 21 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 594 total population, 33 females in the population, 27 males in the population, 25 families, 19 single (never-married) females, 18 single (never-married) males, 9 married males, 8 married females, 6 widowed females. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Ethnic origin (1911). This community's record includes 19 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 13 persons of British origin (English), 10 persons of British origin (Irish), 7 persons of French origin, 4 persons of British origin (other), 2 persons of German origin. 539 persons recorded under the official census category "Indian"; corresponds to what is now described as Indigenous (First Nations; in northern enumerations also Inuit) origin. "Indian" was simultaneously a census category and the legal/administrative term under the Indian Act (1876). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

Religion (1911). This community's record includes 409 Roman Catholics, 173 Anglicans (Church of England), 7 Presbyterians, 5 Methodists. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 25 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON055032 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON055032 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
External authority links suppressed for Indian Reserve entries. See methodological note above.

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1911 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 River I R, Ontario (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/garden-river-i-r-on055032-1911/.