Thessalon, Ontario (1881 census)

Name: Thessalon (1881)
Address: Ontario, CA

Thessalon was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 749. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q998994. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.276°N, 83.493°W.

Population

In 1881, Thessalon had a population of 749: 421 male and 328 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 Bruce Mines, T-V, 1871 (2.6% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Thessalon shared boundaries with:

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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 749 total population, 421 males, 328 females, 244 married persons, 173 families, 125 married males, 119 married females, 18 widowed persons, 10 widowed males, 8 widowed females. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 487 single persons under 18, 286 single males under 18, 201 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 163 occupied houses, 160 inhabited houses, 3 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 3 uninhabited houses, 1 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 5,270 bushels of turnips, 4,621 bushels of potatoes, 1,059 bushels of oats, 652 bushels of peas and beans, 568 bushels of spring wheat, 160 acres of wheat, 124 bushels of other root crops, 103 acres of hay crops, 96 bushels of barley, 94 tons of hay, 57 acres of potatoes, 40 bushels of rye, 22 bushels of buckwheat, 14 bushels of winter wheat, 5 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 748 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: ON182016 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON182016 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q998994
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thessalon

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). "Thessalon, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/thessalon-on182016-1881/.