Pelee Island, Ontario (1871 census)

Name: Pelee Island (1871)
Address: Ontario, CA

Pelee Island was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 150. The administrative centroid was at approximately 41.776°N, 82.658°W.

Population

In 1871, Pelee Island had a population of 150: 84 male and 66 female residents. Population density was 8.8 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	150
1881	361
1891	605
1901	669
1911	830
1921	793

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

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 48 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (10 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of families	31
Number of females	66
Number of males	84
Number of married females	24
Number of married males	24
Number of married persons	48
Number of widowed females	3
Number of widowed males	3
Number of widowed persons	0
Total population	150

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	39
Number of single males under 18	57
Number of single persons under 18	96

Buildings & housing (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of inhabited houses	30
Number of occupied houses	30

Agriculture (10 variables)

Variable	Value
BWT BU	10
CRN BU	1,939
HAY AC	110
HAY TONS	161
OAT BU	1,690
POT AC	22
POT BU	2,062
Total area (acres)	10,500
WHT SP BU	89
WHT WTR BU	435

Other recorded variables (23 variables)

Variable	Value
ACRES	36
AREA	10,500
BEN BU	5
CD	1
CSD	7
FAMILIES	31
FEMALE	66
GRA BU	10
HOUSES OCCUPIED	30
INHABITED	30
MALE	84
MARRIED F	24
MARRIED M	24
MARRIED TOTAL	48
POPULATION	150
ROOT BU	9
SINGLE F	39
SINGLE M	57
SINGLE TOTAL	96
TUR BU	373
WIDOWED F	3
WIDOWED M	3
WIDOWED TOTAL	0

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON001007 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON110009_1871 — 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 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). "Pelee Island, Ontario (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/pelee-island-on001007-1871/.