Year: 1851 | Province: Ontario | County: Bruce

Kinlas, Ontario (1851 census)

Name: Kinlas (1851)
Address: Ontario, CA

Kinlas was a township in Bruce County, Ontario (Canada West / Ontario), recorded in the 1851 Census of Canada with a population of 47. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.011°N, 81.452°W.

Population

In 1851, Kinlas had a population of 47: 27 male and 20 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1851	47
1861	1,842

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1851

In the 1851 census, Kinlas shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1851

The 1851 census recorded 133 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (19 variables)

Variable	Value
C10 FAM NO	16
Female members of the family who are present	20
Male members of the family who are present	27
Number of families	16
Number of female births in the past year	1
Number of females	20
Number of females attending school	10
Number of males	27
Number of males attending school	16
Number of married females	6
Number of married males	10
Number of single females	14
Number of single males	15
Number of widowed males	2
POP	47
POP FX N.1	20
POP MX N.1	27
POP XX N.1	47
Total population	47

Age structure (21 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of females aged 1 to 2	1
Number of females aged 4 to 5	2
Number of females aged 5 to 10	2
Number of females under age 1	1
Number of males aged 1 to 2	1
Number of males aged 2 to 3	1
Number of males aged 3 to 4	1
Number of males aged 4 to 5	1
Number of males aged 5 to 10	3
Number of married females aged 20 to 30	3
Number of married females aged 30 to 40	2
Number of married females aged 40 to 50	1
Number of married males aged 20 to 30	5
Number of married males aged 30 to 40	3
Number of married males aged 40 to 50	2
Number of single females aged 10 to 15	4
Number of single females aged 20 to 30	4
Number of single males aged 10 to 15	3
Number of single males aged 15 to 20	3
Number of single males aged 30 to 40	2
Number of widowed males aged 40 to 50	2

Ethnic origin (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of persons native to Canada, not of French origin	16
Number of persons originating in England or Wales	12
Number of persons originating in Ireland	17
Number of persons originating in Scotland	2

Agriculture (24 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of corn	2
Acres of farmland in pasture	48
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	844
Acres of farmland under crops	8
Acres of farmland under cultivation	56
Acres of land in farms	900
Acres of potatoes	4
Acres of turnips	2
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	20
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	320
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	240
CRN AC	2
CRN BU	20
HAY TONS	3
Number of horses	2
Number of milk cows	5
Number of occupants of farms	56
Number of persons living on farms between 100 and 200 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms between 20 and 50 acres	46
Number of persons living on farms between 50 and 100 acres	8
Number of swine	6
POT AC	4
POT BU	320
Tons of hay produced in the past year	3

Deaths & mortality (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Deaths in the past year among females aged 50 to 60	1
Deaths in the past year among males aged 1 to 2	1
Deaths in the past year among males of all ages	1
Total number of deaths in the past year	1

Other recorded variables (61 variables)

Variable	Value
C01 SEX MALE	27
C02 SEX FEM	20
C03 TOTAL	47
C04 MEM OF FAM M	27
C05 MEM OF FAM F	20
C126 MD MALE	10
C127 S MALE	15
C128 WID MALE	2
C129 TOT MALE	27
C13 BIRTHS F	1
C130 MD FEM	6
C131 S FEM	14
C133 TOT FEM	20
C134 GRAND TOT	47
C135 DEATHS M	1
C137 DEATHS TOT	1
C143 ATTND SCHOOL M	16
C144 ATTND SCHOOL F	10
C15 UNDER 1 F	1
C18 UNDER 2 M	1
C19 UNDER 2 F	1
C20 DEATHS UNDER 2 M	1
C22 UNDER 3 M	1
C26 UNDER 4 M	1
C30 UNDER 5 M	1
C31 UNDER 5 F	2
C34 BTWN 5 AND 10 M	3
C35 BTWN 5 AND 10 F	2
C39 BTWN 10 AND 15 M S	3
C41 BTWN 10 AND 15 F S	4
C45 BTWN 15 AND 20 M S	3
C50 BTWN 20 AND 30 M MD	5
C53 BTWN 20 AND 30 F MD	3
C54 BTWN 20 AND 30 F S	4
C58 BTWN 30 AND 40 M MD	3
C59 BTWN 30 AND 40 M S	2
C61 BTWN 30 AND 40 F MD	2
C66 BTWN 40 AND 50 M MD	2
C68 BTWN 40 AND 50 M WID	2
C69 BTWN 40 AND 50 F MD	1
C81 BTWN 50 AND 60 F DEATHS	1
CD NAME	Bruce
CROP	8
CULT	56
ENG WLS	12
HELD	900
HORSE	2
IRE	17
LINE NO	12
M COWS	5
NOT FRN	16
O 100 TO 200	2
O 20 TO 50	46
O 50 TO 100	8
PASTURE	48
SCOT	2
SWINE	6
TOT O	56
TUR AC	2
TUR BU	240
WOOD	844

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON003010 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON066013 — 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 1851 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). "Kinlas, Ontario (1851 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/kinlas-on003010-1851/.