Kars, Ontario (1911 census)

Kars was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 47. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.743°N, 84.532°W.

Population

In 1911, Kars had a population of 47: 450 male and 364 female residents. Population density was 2.6 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).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, Kars shared boundaries with:

• Fenwick
• Goulais Bay I R
• Ley

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 19 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 11,351 area in acres, 450 males in the population, 364 females in the population, 277 single (never-married) males, 200 single (never-married) females, 182 families, 159 married males, 154 married females, 47 total population, 17.74 area in square miles, 14 widowed males, 10 widowed females, 2.65 population per square mile. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Ethnic origin (1911). This community's record includes 36 persons of French origin, 3 persons of Greek origin. 8 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 44 Roman Catholics, 3 Greek (Orthodox) Church adherents. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 181 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: ON055012 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON055012 — 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). "Kars, Ontario (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/kars-on055012-1911/.