Head, Maria & Clara, Ontario (1891 census)

Name: Head, Maria & Clara (1891)
Address: Ontario, CA

Head, Maria & Clara was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 521. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.173°N, 78.064°W.

Population

In 1891, Head, Maria & Clara had a population of 521: 281 male and 240 female residents. Population density was 1.8 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	953
1891	521

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Head, Maria & Clara shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 138 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.80
FAM NO	89
Number of families	89
Number of females	240
Number of males	281
Number of married females	84
Number of married males	84
Number of married persons	168
Number of widowed females	5
Number of widowed males	9
Number of widowed persons	14
POP F	240
POP M	281
POP TOT	521
Total population	521

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	151
Number of single males under 18	188
Number of single persons under 18	339

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	70
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	451

Buildings & housing (14 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	86
Number of houses built of wood	86
Number of houses of 1 room	11
Number of houses of 1 story	31
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	5
Number of houses of 2 rooms	6
Number of houses of 2 stories	55
Number of houses of 3 rooms	11
Number of houses of 4 rooms	15
Number of houses of 5 rooms	6
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	30
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	2
Number of occupied houses	86
Number of uninhabited houses	4

Agriculture (50 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	31
Acres of farmland in pasture	499
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	9,451
Acres of farmland under crops	1,994
Acres of hay crops	676
Acres of improved land in farms	2,524
Acres of land in farms	11,975
Acres of oats	395
Acres of potatoes	49
Acres of turnips	4
Acres of wheat	14
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	20
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	121
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	50
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	10,277
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	1,073
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	7,135
Bushels of rye produced in the past year	40
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	108
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	1,510
BWT BU	121
CRN BU	50
HAY AC	676
HAY TONS	599
Number of chickens	154
Number of employees on farms	2
Number of farm occupants who own their land	39
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	2
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	5
Number of horses aged over 3 years	29
Number of milk cows	52
Number of occupants of farms	43
Number of other cattle	16
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	15
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	8
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	18
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	1
Number of sheep	8
Number of swine	22
OAT AC	395
OAT BU	10,277
PEA BU	1,073
POT AC	49
POT BU	7,135
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	28
RYE BU	40
Tons of hay produced in the past year	599
WHT AC	14
WHT SP BU	108

Other recorded variables (54 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	15
A 11 50	1
A 201 PL	18
A 51 100	8
BEN BU	20
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	151
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	188
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	339
COARSE WOOL LB	28
COLTS FILLIES	5
FAMILIES	89
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.80
FRN CA	70
HENS AND CHKN	154
HORSES OVR THREE	29
HOUSES	86
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	5
HOUSES FIVE RM	6
HOUSES FOUR RM	15
HOUSES ONE RM	11
HOUSES ONE STRY	31
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	30
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	2
HOUSES THREE RM	11
HOUSES TWO RM	6
HOUSES TWO STRY	55
HOUSES UNINH	4
HOUSES W	86
INF 11 A	1
MD FEM	84
MD MALE	84
MD TOT	168
MILK COWS	52
NAME CD	Renfrew, North-Nord
OC E	2
OC F	2
OC P	39
OC TOT	43
OTHER HRN CATTLE	16
OTHERS	451
SHEEP	8
SUP AM	2,524
SUP FOR	9,451
SUP JV	31
SUP PAT	499
SUP SC	1,994
SUP TOT	11,975
SWINE	22
TOT DWLG OCC	86
TUR AC	4
TUR BU	1,510
WID FEM	5
WID MALE	9
WID TOT	14

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON114005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON114005_1881 — 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). "Head, Maria & Clara, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/head-maria-clara-on114005-1891/.