Spence Croft, Ontario (1881 census)

Spence Croft was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 843. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.596°N, 79.713°W.

Population

In 1881, Spence Croft had a population of 843: 478 male and 365 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 Maganetawan, 1871 (12.0% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Spence Croft shared boundaries with:

• Chapman, Strong, Joly
• Christie, Monteith
• Lount, Machar & Laurier
• McKellar, Hagerman
• McKenzie, Ferrie, Wilson, Mills, McConkey, Hardy
• Ryerson, Armour

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 33 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 843 total population, 478 males, 365 females, 276 married persons, 178 families, 140 married males, 136 married females, 23 widowed persons, 14 widowed males, 9 widowed females. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 544 single persons under 18, 324 single males under 18, 220 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 178 inhabited houses, 178 occupied houses, 6 uninhabited houses, 2 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 28,262 bushels of turnips, 20,661 bushels of oats, 12,889 bushels of potatoes, 1,713 bushels of peas and beans, 1,466 bushels of spring wheat, 761 bushels of barley, 754 acres of hay crops, 720 tons of hay, 510 bushels of other root crops, 180 acres of wheat, 127 acres of potatoes, 127 bushels of rye, 121 bushels of corn, 55 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 5 bushels of winter wheat, 4 bushels of buckwheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 843 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: ON131020 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON131020 — 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 1881 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). "Spence Croft, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/spence-croft-on131020-1881/.