Unorganized Territory, Ontario (1881 census)

Unorganized Territory was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 118. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.889°N, 77.874°W.

Population

In 1881, Unorganized Territory had a population of 118: 62 male and 56 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.

Later boundary forms

• In a later year, this CSD became part of Unorganized Territory, 1891 (1.2% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Unorganized Territory shared boundaries with:

• Head, Clara, Maria
• NO DATA
• Sabine, Airey, Lyell, Murchison & Robinson
• Sherwood, Richards & Burns
• Unorganized Territory

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 30 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 118 total population, 62 males, 56 females, 31 married persons, 18 families, 16 married males, 15 married females, 3 widowed persons, 2 widowed males, 1 widowed females. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 84 single persons under 18, 44 single males under 18, 40 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 18 inhabited houses, 18 occupied houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 4,244 bushels of potatoes, 2,575 bushels of oats, 1,500 bushels of turnips, 293 acres of hay crops, 206 tons of hay, 151 bushels of spring wheat, 133 bushels of peas and beans, 95 bushels of rye, 38 acres of potatoes, 37 bushels of corn, 20 bushels of buckwheat, 15 bushels of other root crops, 10 acres of wheat, 3 bushels of barley, 3 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 121 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: ON113015 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON113015 — 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). "Unorganized Territory, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/unorganized-territory-on113015-1881/.