Year: 1891
| Province: Ontario
Kingston, St. Lawrence, Ward—Quartier, Ontario (1891 census)
Kingston, St. Lawrence, Ward—Quartier was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 836. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.231°N, 76.485°W.
Population
In 1891, Kingston, St. Lawrence, Ward—Quartier had a population of 836: 373 male and 463 female residents. Population density was 18906.8 people per square mile.
Population trajectory across census years
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, St. Lawrence, Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1891
The 1891 census recorded 116 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (15 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Average size of families | 5.90 |
| FAM NO | 141 |
| Number of families | 141 |
| Number of females | 463 |
| Number of males | 373 |
| Number of married females | 105 |
| Number of married males | 108 |
| Number of married persons | 213 |
| Number of widowed females | 31 |
| Number of widowed males | 19 |
| Number of widowed persons | 50 |
| POP F | 463 |
| POP M | 373 |
| POP TOT | 836 |
| Total population | 836 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 327 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 246 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 573 |
Ethnic origin (2 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of French Canadians | 15 |
| Number of persons who are not French Canadian | 821 |
Buildings & housing (18 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses | 129 |
| Number of houses built of brick | 74 |
| Number of houses built of stone | 37 |
| Number of houses built of wood | 18 |
| Number of houses of 1 room | 1 |
| Number of houses of 1 story | 3 |
| Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms | 18 |
| Number of houses of 2 rooms | 6 |
| Number of houses of 2 stories | 81 |
| Number of houses of 3 rooms | 3 |
| Number of houses of 3 stories | 40 |
| Number of houses of 4 rooms | 14 |
| Number of houses of 5 rooms | 8 |
| Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms | 71 |
| Number of houses of more than 3 stories | 5 |
| Number of houses of over 15 rooms | 8 |
| Number of occupied houses | 129 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 9 |
Agriculture (34 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of barley | 63 |
| Acres of farmland in pasture | 25 |
| Acres of farmland in woodland or forest | 12 |
| Acres of farmland under crops | 209 |
| Acres of hay crops | 35 |
| Acres of improved land in farms | 258 |
| Acres of land in farms | 270 |
| Acres of oats | 32 |
| Acres of potatoes | 5 |
| Acres of wheat | 3 |
| BAR AC | 63 |
| BAR BU | 650 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 650 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 517 |
| Bushels of peas produced in the past year | 360 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 275 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 50 |
| HAY AC | 35 |
| HAY TONS | 65 |
| Number of chickens | 100 |
| Number of farm occupants who own their land | 3 |
| Number of horses aged 3 years and under | 2 |
| Number of horses aged over 3 years | 20 |
| Number of milk cows | 9 |
| Number of occupants of farms | 3 |
| Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres | 3 |
| OAT AC | 32 |
| OAT BU | 517 |
| PEA BU | 360 |
| POT AC | 5 |
| POT BU | 275 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 65 |
| WHT AC | 3 |
| WHT SP BU | 50 |
Other recorded variables (44 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| A 51 100 | 3 |
| CHILD AND UNMD FEM | 327 |
| CHILD AND UNMD MALE | 246 |
| CHILD AND UNMD TOT | 573 |
| COLTS FILLIES | 2 |
| FAMILIES | 141 |
| FAMILIES AV SIZE | 5.90 |
| FRN CA | 15 |
| HENS AND CHKN | 100 |
| HORSES OVR THREE | 20 |
| HOUSES | 129 |
| HOUSES B | 74 |
| HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM | 18 |
| HOUSES FIVE RM | 8 |
| HOUSES FOUR RM | 14 |
| HOUSES ONE RM | 1 |
| HOUSES ONE STRY | 3 |
| HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY | 5 |
| HOUSES S | 37 |
| HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM | 71 |
| HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM | 8 |
| HOUSES THREE RM | 3 |
| HOUSES THREE STRY | 40 |
| HOUSES TWO RM | 6 |
| HOUSES TWO STRY | 81 |
| HOUSES UNINH | 9 |
| HOUSES W | 18 |
| MD FEM | 105 |
| MD MALE | 108 |
| MD TOT | 213 |
| MILK COWS | 9 |
| NAME CD | Kingston, City—Cité |
| OC P | 3 |
| OC TOT | 3 |
| OTHERS | 821 |
| SUP AM | 258 |
| SUP FOR | 12 |
| SUP PAT | 25 |
| SUP SC | 209 |
| SUP TOT | 270 |
| TOT DWLG OCC | 129 |
| WID FEM | 31 |
| WID MALE | 19 |
| WID TOT | 50 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
ON080005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_ON077005 — 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, St. Lawrence, Ward—Quartier, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/kingston-st-lawrence-ward-quartier-on080005-1891/.