Thessalon I R, Ontario (1911 census)

Name: Thessalon I R (1911)
Address: Ontario, CA

Note on Indian Reserves in the Census of Canada. The 1851–1921 censuses enumerated First Nations populations on reserves inconsistently across years and regions, sometimes naming individual reserves and sometimes aggregating them under a generic "Indian Reserves" bundle per Census District. This page reflects the historical census record as published; it is not an authoritative description of any specific First Nation, band, or reserve. For accurate information, consult the annual reports of the Department of Indian Affairs (1864–present, available through Library and Archives Canada), the Indigenous Services Canada First Nation Profiles, and First Nations communities directly.

Thessalon I R was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 488. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.235°N, 82.003°W.

Population

In 1911, Thessalon I R had a population of 488: 266 male and 223 female residents. Population density was 13.5 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

In an earlier year, this CSD contained Cutler, 1901 (0.9% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, Thessalon I R shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 19 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 23,155 area in acres, 488 total population, 266 males in the population, 223 females in the population, 171 single (never-married) males, 135 single (never-married) females, 89 families, 82 married males, 79 married females, 36.18 area in square miles, 13.52 population per square mile, 9 widowed females, 7 widowed males, 6 males with marital status not given. 274 population in the previous census (1901 reference column included in 1911 V1T1). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Ethnic origin (1911). 488 persons recorded under the official census category "Indian"; corresponds to what is now described as Indigenous (First Nations; in northern enumerations also Inuit) origin. "Indian" was simultaneously a census category and the legal/administrative term under the Indian Act (1876). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

Religion (1911). This community's record includes 458 Roman Catholics, 30 Anglicans (Church of England). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 89 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON054059 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON054059 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
External authority links suppressed for Indian Reserve entries. See methodological note above.

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1911 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). "Thessalon I R, Ontario (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/thessalon-i-r-on054059-1911/.