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Year: 1851  |  Province: Ontario

St. Lawrence Ward, Ontario (1851 census)

St. Lawrence Ward was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1851 Census of Canada with a population of 2,386. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.263°N, 79.854°W.

Population

In 1851, St. Lawrence Ward had a population of 2,386: 1,187 male and 1,199 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18512,386
18614,243

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1851

In the 1851 census, St. Lawrence Ward shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1851

The 1851 census recorded 111 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1851). This community's record includes 2,386 total population, 1,199 females, 1,187 males, Male members of the family who are present: 1,083, Female members of the family who are present: 1,081, 780 single males, 773 single females, 440 families, 376 married males, 375 married females, 148 males attending school, Females present who are not members of the family: 118, Males present who are not members of the family: 104, 96 females attending school, 51 widowed females, 44 female births, Male members of the family who are present: 39, 31 widowed males, 26 male births, Female members of the family who are absent: 13, 2 lunatic males. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Age structure (1851). This community's record includes 167 married females aged 20 to 30, 153 males aged 5 to 10, 144 single females aged 15 to 20, 142 single females aged 10 to 15, 139 females aged 5 to 10, 137 married males aged 30 to 40, 118 single males aged 10 to 15, 118 single males aged 15 to 20, 111 single males aged 20 to 30, 110 married females aged 30 to 40, 110 single females aged 20 to 30, 99 married males aged 20 to 30, 93 married males aged 40 to 50, 61 married females aged 40 to 50, 60 females under age 1, 54 males under age 1, 52 males of unknown age, 47 males aged 2 to 3, 45 females aged 1 to 2, 44 males aged 1 to 2, 41 females aged 2 to 3, 36 females age 3 to 4, 36 married males aged 50 to 60, 35 males aged 4 to 5, 28 males aged 3 to 4, 22 females aged 4 to 5, 20 married females aged 50 to 60, 19 females of unknown age, 18 widowed females aged 40 to 50, 15 single males aged 30 to 40, 12 married females aged 15 to 20, 11 widowed females aged 50 to 60, 9 single females aged 30 to 40, 8 married males aged 60 to 70, 8 widowed males aged 30 to 40, 8 widowed males aged 40 to 50, 7 widowed females aged 30 to 40, 6 widowed females aged 60 to 70, 5 widowed females aged 20 to 30, 5 widowed males aged 60 to 70, 4 married females aged 60 to 70, 4 single females aged 40 to 50, 4 widowed males aged 50 to 60, 3 single males aged 40 to 50, 3 widowed females aged 70 to 80, 3 widowed males aged 20 to 30, 3 widowed males aged 70 to 80, 2 married males aged 70 to 80, 2 single females aged 50 to 60, 1 married females aged 70 to 80, 1 married males aged 80 to 90, 1 single males aged 50 to 60, 1 single males aged 70 to 80, 1 widowed females aged 80 to 90. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1851). This community's record includes 827 persons native to Canada, not of French origin, 740 persons originating in Ireland, 354 persons originating in England or Wales, 210 persons originating in Scotland, 134 persons originating in the United States, 68 persons whose origin is unknown, 33 male negroes or coloured persons, 28 female negroes or coloured persons, 16 persons originating in all other places, 10 persons originating in Germany or Holland, 9 persons originating in Switzerland, 7 French Canadians, 4 persons originating in New Brunswick, 2 persons originating in France, 2 persons originating in Nova Scotia or Prince Edward Island, 2 persons originating in the West Indies. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T3.) The 1851 enumerator also recorded 2 persons originating in Jersey or other British islands — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Deaths & mortality (1851). This community's record includes 24 total number of deaths, Deaths in the past year among males of all ages: 13, Deaths in the past year among females of all ages: 11, Deaths in the past year among females under age 1: 4, Deaths in the past year among females aged 4 to 5: 2, Deaths in the past year among males aged 2 to 3: 2, Deaths in the past year among males aged 40 to 50: 2, Deaths in the past year among males aged 5 to 10: 2, Deaths in the past year among males under age 1: 2, Deaths in the past year among females aged 1 to 2: 1, Deaths in the past year among females aged 20 to 30: 1, Deaths in the past year among females aged 5 to 10: 1, Deaths in the past year among females aged 60 to 70: 1, Deaths in the past year among females of unknown age: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 1 to 2: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 10 to 15: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 4 to 5: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 50 to 60: 1, Deaths in the past year among males of unknown age: 1. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1851 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). "St. Lawrence Ward, Ontario (1851 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/st-lawrence-ward-on044004-1851/.