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RESOURCES | Find Lot Locations using the 1871 Census

Research 1871 CENSUS locations free online for ALL OF ONTARIO. The individual Township pages at this site, point to every Sched. 4 start page for every Enumeration Division in the Province! COPYRIGHT – the Surname databases, Look-up charts, Transcriptions and all Map geo-points are property of Lisa Rance, Orillia, 2011-current.

Determine the exact Concession & Lot locations where ancestors reported crops on the 1871 Census. This is helpful for differentiating families of a common surname. The ancestor need not have been a farmer – even small personal gardens on town lots, were reported.

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Muskoka and Parry Sound Lot Locations, 1871

I only recently became aware of the existence of an “agricultural” schedule for the 1871 Census of Canada. Here are a thousand+ surnames transcribed for Muskoka and Parry Sound using the cross-referencing procedure described here.

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Total Records Found: 1005, showing 10 per page
SurnameIncidenceTownshipCountyDatesSourceDetails
Yew 2 McDougall Parry Sound 1871. census
Young 2 Morrison Muskoka 1871. census
Young 2 Watt Muskoka 1871. census
Zemmerman 1 Macaulay Muskoka 1871. census
Zimmons 2 Morrison Muskoka 1871. census

PHOTOlog | inland ship whistle stop MUSKOKA

historic steamship, muskoka, northern Ontario

The Wenonah II steamship, built 2002, is the namesake of the first steam ship operated by A.P. Cockburn’s Muskoka Lakes Navigation Company (1866-1958). Its first route was between Gravenhurst (then called McCabe’s Bay) and Bracebridge (then called North Falls). Photo credit: Lisa Rance, July 2011

MUSKOKA District | Muskoka Township