Grassy Narrows, Swan Lake & White Dog Post, Ontario (1911 census)

Name: Grassy Narrows, Swan Lake & White Dog Post (1911)
Address: Ontario, CA

Grassy Narrows, Swan Lake & White Dog Post was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 373. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.698°N, 93.920°W.

Population

In 1911, Grassy Narrows, Swan Lake & White Dog Post had a population of 373: 123 male and 93 female residents. Population density was 6.3 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

In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Unorganized territory—Ter. non-organisé, 1901 (0.0% share).

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD contained White Dog Post, 1921 (33.3% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, Grassy Narrows, Swan Lake & White Dog Post shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 25 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 19,783 area in acres, 373 total population, 123 males in the population, 93 females in the population, 77 single (never-married) males, 58 families, 53 single (never-married) females, 43 married males, 39 married females, 30.91 area in square miles, 6.34 population per square mile, 2 widowed males, 1 divorced males, 1 widowed females. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Ethnic origin (1911). This community's record includes 5 persons of British origin (Irish), 3 persons of British origin (English), 3 persons of German origin. 361 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 174 Anglicans (Church of England), 60 Roman Catholics, 1 Methodists, 1 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified, 1 Presbyterians. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2; V2T7.) The 1911 enumerator also recorded 137 persons recorded under the 1911 official census category "Pagans"; primarily applied to Indigenous adherents of traditional spiritual practices. The label reflects period Christian-normative framing and is preserved as the historical source category. — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 58 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON123020 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON123020 — 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 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). "Grassy Narrows, Swan Lake & White Dog Post, Ontario (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/grassy-narrows-swan-lake-white-dog-post-on123020-1911/.