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Year: 1871  |  Province: Ontario

Mataouan, W-O, Ontario (1871 census)

Mataouan, W-O was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 152. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.373°N, 79.510°W.

Population

In 1871, Mataouan, W-O had a population of 152: 88 male and 64 female residents. Population density was 0.1 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

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, Mataouan, W-O shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 52 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (10 variables)
VariableValue
Number of families29
Number of females64
Number of males88
Number of married females21
Number of married males23
Number of married persons44
Number of widowed females2
Number of widowed males5
Number of widowed persons7
Total population152
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 1841
Number of single males under 1860
Number of single persons under 18101
Buildings & housing (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties5
Number of inhabited houses21
Number of occupied houses26
Agriculture (13 variables)
VariableValue
BAR BU18
BWT BU6
CRN BU6
HAY AC87
HAY TONS138
OAT BU4,435
PEA BU111
POT AC22
POT BU2,810
RYE BU70
Total area (acres)923.20
WHT SP BU242
WHT WTR BU75
Other recorded variables (23 variables)
VariableValue
ACRES14
AREA923.20
BEN BU3
CD84
CSD4
FAMILIES29
FEMALE64
HOUSES OCCUPIED26
INHABITED21
MALE88
MARRIED F21
MARRIED M23
MARRIED TOTAL44
POPULATION152
ROOT BU24
SHANTIES5
SINGLE F41
SINGLE M60
SINGLE TOTAL101
TUR BU215
WIDOWED F2
WIDOWED M5
WIDOWED TOTAL7

Identifiers

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). "Mataouan, W-O, Ontario (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/mataouan-w-o-on084004-1871/.