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Year: 1891  |  Province: Ontario

Sault Ste. Marie, W-O, Ontario (1891 census)

Sault Ste. Marie, W-O was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 952. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.531°N, 84.411°W.

Population

In 1891, Sault Ste. Marie, W-O had a population of 952: 553 male and 399 female residents. Population density was 66.2 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 1891

In the 1891 census, Sault Ste. Marie, W-O shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 144 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)
VariableValue
Average size of families5.50
FAM NO172
Number of families172
Number of females399
Number of males553
Number of married females164
Number of married males193
Number of married persons357
Number of widowed females11
Number of widowed males3
Number of widowed persons14
POP F399
POP M553
POP TOT952
Total population952
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18224
Number of single males under 18357
Number of single persons under 18581
Ethnic origin (2 variables)
VariableValue
Number of French Canadians107
Number of persons who are not French Canadian845
Buildings & housing (18 variables)
VariableValue
Number of dwellings that are vessels and shanties22
Number of houses145
Number of houses built of brick9
Number of houses built of wood136
Number of houses of 1 room1
Number of houses of 1 story39
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms6
Number of houses of 2 rooms15
Number of houses of 2 stories100
Number of houses of 3 rooms22
Number of houses of 3 stories5
Number of houses of 4 rooms19
Number of houses of 5 rooms19
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms59
Number of houses of more than 3 stories1
Number of houses of over 15 rooms4
Number of occupied houses167
Number of uninhabited houses2
Agriculture (48 variables)
VariableValue
Acres of barley4
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards23
Acres of farmland in pasture591
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest1,807
Acres of farmland under crops609
Acres of hay crops119
Acres of improved land in farms1,223
Acres of land in farms3,030
Acres of oats17
Acres of potatoes6
Acres of wheat1
BAR AC4
BAR BU24
Bushels of barley produced in the past year24
Bushels of oats produced in the past year200
Bushels of peas produced in the past year15
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year398
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year12
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year30
HAY AC119
HAY TONS120
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year2
Number of chickens428
Number of farm occupants who own their land70
Number of farm occupants who rent their land2
Number of horses aged 3 years and under1
Number of horses aged over 3 years19
Number of milk cows22
Number of occupants of farms72
Number of other cattle10
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres9
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres3
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres7
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres3
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres50
Number of sheep1
Number of swine2
Number of swine slaughtered or sold2
OAT AC17
OAT BU200
PEA BU15
POT AC6
POT BU398
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year4
Pounds of homemade butter520
Tons of hay produced in the past year120
WHT AC1
WHT SP BU12
Other recorded variables (58 variables)
VariableValue
A 101 2009
A 11 503
A 201 PL3
A 51 1007
BUTTER LB520
CATTLE KS2
CHILD AND UNMD FEM224
CHILD AND UNMD MALE357
CHILD AND UNMD TOT581
COARSE WOOL LB4
COLTS FILLIES1
FAMILIES172
FAMILIES AV SIZE5.50
FRN CA107
HENS AND CHKN428
HORSES OVR THREE19
HOUSES145
HOUSES B9
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM6
HOUSES FIVE RM19
HOUSES FOUR RM19
HOUSES ONE RM1
HOUSES ONE STRY39
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY1
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM59
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM4
HOUSES THREE RM22
HOUSES THREE STRY5
HOUSES TWO RM15
HOUSES TWO STRY100
HOUSES UNINH2
HOUSES W136
INF 11 A50
MD FEM164
MD MALE193
MD TOT357
MILK COWS22
NAME CDAlgoma (Eastern Division-Est.)
OC F2
OC P70
OC TOT72
OTHER HRN CATTLE10
OTHERS845
SHEEP1
SUP AM1,223
SUP FOR1,807
SUP JV23
SUP PAT591
SUP SC609
SUP TOT3,030
SWINE2
SWINE KS2
TOT DWLG OCC167
TUR BU30
VESS AND SHAN22
WID FEM11
WID MALE3
WID TOT14

Identifiers

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). "Sault Ste. Marie, W-O, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/sault-ste-marie-w-o-on046020-1891/.