Nipigon & Pays Plat, Ontario (1891 census)

Nipigon & Pays Plat was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 909. The administrative centroid was at approximately 48.966°N, 87.857°W.

Population

In 1891, Nipigon & Pays Plat had a population of 909: 480 male and 429 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 Nipigon, 1901 (17.5% of this CSD's polygon).
• In a later year, this CSD contained Rossport, 1901 (0.2% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Nipigon & Pays Plat shared boundaries with:

• Unorganized Territory

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 61 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 909 total population, 480 males, 429 females, 292 married persons, 152 families, 149 married females, 143 married males, 47 widowed persons, 29 widowed females, 18 widowed males, 5.90 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 570 single persons under 18, 319 single males under 18, 251 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 906 persons who are not French Canadian, 3 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 145 occupied houses, 108 dwellings that are vessels and shanties, 37 houses, 37 houses built of wood, 32 houses of 1 story, 10 houses of 2 rooms, 10 houses of 4 rooms, 10 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 6 uninhabited houses, 5 houses of 2 stories, 3 houses of 3 rooms, 3 houses of 5 rooms, 2 houses under construction, 1 houses built of stone, 1 houses of over 15 rooms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 2,343 bushels of potatoes, 535 pounds of homemade butter, 490 acres of land in farms, 251 acres of improved land in farms, 249 chickens, 239 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 182 acres of farmland under crops, 92 bushels of turnips, 77 tons of hay, 63 acres of hay crops, 47 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 39 occupants of farms, 31 farm occupants who own their land, 30 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 22 acres of farmland in pasture, 21 acres of potatoes, 20 bushels of corn, 14 milk cows, 13 other cattle, 10 cattle killed or sold, 10 oxen, 8 farm occupants who rent their land, 6 swine, 5 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 4 swine slaughtered or sold, 3 horses aged 3 years and under, 3 horses aged over 3 years, 3 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 1 acres of turnips, 1 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: ON046035 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON046035 — 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). "Nipigon & Pays Plat, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/nipigon-pays-plat-on046035-1891/.