Kingston, Rideau, Ward—Quartier, Ontario (1891 census)

Name: Kingston, Rideau, Ward—Quartier (1891)
Address: Ontario, CA

Kingston, Rideau, Ward—Quartier was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 4,464. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.236°N, 76.502°W.

Population

In 1891, Kingston, Rideau, Ward—Quartier had a population of 4,464: 2,127 male and 2,337 female residents. Population density was 6154.9 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1851	1,868
1861	2,213
1871	2,066
1881	2,788
1891	4,464
1901	4,363

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, Kingston, Rideau, Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 132 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.10
FAM NO	871
Number of families	871
Number of females	2,337
Number of males	2,127
Number of married females	703
Number of married males	699
Number of married persons	1,402
Number of widowed females	207
Number of widowed males	50
Number of widowed persons	257
POP F	2,337
POP M	2,127
POP TOT	4,464
Total population	4,464

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	1,427
Number of single males under 18	1,378
Number of single persons under 18	2,805

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	20
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	4,444

Buildings & housing (18 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of dwellings that are vessels and shanties	3
Number of houses	857
Number of houses built of brick	283
Number of houses built of stone	46
Number of houses built of wood	528
Number of houses of 1 story	100
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	16
Number of houses of 2 rooms	12
Number of houses of 2 stories	729
Number of houses of 3 rooms	26
Number of houses of 3 stories	28
Number of houses of 4 rooms	91
Number of houses of 5 rooms	130
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	581
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	1
Number of houses under construction	20
Number of occupied houses	860
Number of uninhabited houses	93

Agriculture (39 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	20
Acres of farmland in pasture	5
Acres of hay crops	30
Acres of improved land in farms	36
Acres of land in farms	36
Acres of oats	10
Acres of potatoes	1
Acres of turnips	13
BAR AC	20
BAR BU	400
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	400
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	300
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	75
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	615
HAY AC	30
HAY TONS	40
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	2
Number of chickens	1,671
Number of ducks	48
Number of farm occupants who own their land	11
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	1
Number of geese	20
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	19
Number of horses aged over 3 years	241
Number of milk cows	131
Number of occupants of farms	12
Number of other cattle	4
Number of other fowl	62
Number of oxen	27
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	12
Number of sheep	29
Number of swine	12
Number of turkeys	14
OAT AC	10
OAT BU	300
POT AC	1
POT BU	75
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	116
Tons of hay produced in the past year	40

Other recorded variables (55 variables)

Variable	Value
CATTLE KS	2
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	1,427
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	1,378
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	2,805
COARSE WOOL LB	116
COLTS FILLIES	19
DUCKS	48
FAMILIES	871
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.10
FRN CA	20
GEESE	20
HENS AND CHKN	1,671
HORSES OVR THREE	241
HOUSES	857
HOUSES B	283
HOUSES CON	20
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	16
HOUSES FIVE RM	130
HOUSES FOUR RM	91
HOUSES ONE STRY	100
HOUSES S	46
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	581
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	1
HOUSES THREE RM	26
HOUSES THREE STRY	28
HOUSES TWO RM	12
HOUSES TWO STRY	729
HOUSES UNINH	93
HOUSES W	528
INF 11 A	12
MD FEM	703
MD MALE	699
MD TOT	1,402
MILK COWS	131
NAME CD	Kingston, City—Cité
OC F	1
OC P	11
OC TOT	12
OTHER FOWL	62
OTHER HRN CATTLE	4
OTHERS	4,444
SHEEP	29
SUP AM	36
SUP PAT	5
SUP TOT	36
SWINE	12
TOT DWLG OCC	860
TUR AC	13
TUR BU	615
TURKEY	14
VESS AND SHAN	3
WID FEM	207
WID MALE	50
WID TOT	257
WORKING OX	27

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON080004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON077004 — 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). "Kingston, Rideau, Ward—Quartier, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/kingston-rideau-ward-quartier-on080004-1891/.