Madoc, Ontario (1871 census)

Madoc was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 3,479. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q11765886. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.584°N, 77.509°W.

Population

In 1871, Madoc had a population of 3,479: 1,808 male and 1,671 female residents.

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.

Later boundary forms

• In a later year, this CSD contained Madoc, Village, 1881 (0.9% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, Madoc shared boundaries with:

• Elzevir & Grimsthorpe
• Hungerford
• Huntingdon
• Marmora, Lake
• Rawdon
• Tudor, Wollaston, Limerick, Cashel

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 18 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 3,479 total population, 1,808 males, 1,671 females, 1,080 married persons, 629 families, 541 married males, 539 married females, 105 widowed persons, 73 widowed females, 32 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 2,294 single persons under 18, 1,235 single males under 18, 1,059 single females under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 610 inhabited houses, 610 occupied houses, 66 uninhabited houses, 4 houses under construction. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 69,000 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: ON062005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON062005 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q11765886
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoc,_Ontario_(township)
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoc_(Ontario)

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1871 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). "Madoc, Ontario (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/madoc-on062005-1871/.