1960 Census

The 1960 Census was the first census ever to be held in the Imaginary Lands of Nicholas. As required by Article 17 in the National Transition Council Act, the census is administered by the Provisional Statistics Council of the Imaginary Lands of Nicholas (PVC). It provided a detailed enumeration of the population of residents in the Imaginary Lands of Nicholas.

Census day was December 25, 1960. Results were released in stages, and all results have been released by March 1962. The next census is the 1970 Census.

Gravenhurst Region
The population enumerated in the census was 625,047. The count was higher than the original 1959 estimation of 600,000. The last 1945 census (for Gravenhurst Region only) reported the region has a population of 572,294, and when compared to this census, the population has been risen by 8.44%.

In the census, there were 37 municipalities, with the largest being Archemedes, with a population of 282,014. The smallest being Muskoka Lake, a new community developed out of the Gravenhurst Unorganized District, with a population of 1.