Rat Portage, Town—Ville, Ontario (1901 census)

Name: Rat Portage, Town—Ville (1901)
Address: Ontario, CA

Rat Portage, Town—Ville was a town in Ontario, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 5,202. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q993714. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.774°N, 94.480°W.

Population

In 1901, Rat Portage, Town—Ville had a population of 5,202: 2,804 male and 2,398 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.

Earlier boundary forms

In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Rat Portage W-O, 1891 (3.8% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, Rat Portage, Town—Ville shared boundaries with:

Rat Portage

Full census record, 1901

The 1901 census recorded 11 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 2 categories.

Population & families (1901). This community's record includes 5,202 total population, 2,804 males, 2,398 females, 1,834 single males, 1,413 single females, 1,050 families, 914 married males, 896 married females, 89 widowed females, 56 widowed males. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Buildings & housing (1901). This community's record includes 987 houses. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON044065 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON044065 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q993714
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenora
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenora

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1901 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). "Rat Portage, Town—Ville, Ontario (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/rat-portage-town-ville-on044065-1901/.