Emerson, Town—Ville, Manitoba (1891 census)

Name: Emerson, Town—Ville (1891)
Address: Manitoba, CA

Emerson, Town—Ville was a town in Manitoba, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 660. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q312121. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.015°N, 97.213°W.

Population

In 1891, Emerson, Town—Ville had a population of 660: 338 male and 322 female residents. Population density was 99.7 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	977
1891	660
1901	840
1911	1,043
1921	895

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Emerson, Town—Ville shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 146 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.20
FAM NO	126
Number of families	126
Number of females	322
Number of males	338
Number of married females	101
Number of married males	109
Number of married persons	210
Number of widowed females	9
Number of widowed males	10
Number of widowed persons	19
POP F	322
POP M	338
POP TOT	660
Total population	660

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	212
Number of single males under 18	219
Number of single persons under 18	431

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	12
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	648

Buildings & housing (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	123
Number of houses built of brick	23
Number of houses built of wood	100
Number of houses of 1 story	28
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	3
Number of houses of 2 rooms	4
Number of houses of 2 stories	92
Number of houses of 3 rooms	5
Number of houses of 3 stories	3
Number of houses of 4 rooms	15
Number of houses of 5 rooms	27
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	67
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	2
Number of occupied houses	123
Number of uninhabited houses	70

Agriculture (50 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	66
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	3
Acres of farmland in pasture	1,520
Acres of farmland under crops	1,275
Acres of improved land in farms	1,278
Acres of land in farms	2,798
Acres of oats	273
Acres of potatoes	6
Acres of turnips	3
Acres of wheat	928
BAR AC	66
BAR BU	1,586
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	1,586
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	8,205
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	1,090
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	16,512
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	650
HAY TONS	60
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	4
Number of chickens	1,698
Number of ducks	104
Number of farm occupants who own their land	9
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	9
Number of geese	67
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	49
Number of horses aged over 3 years	132
Number of milk cows	135
Number of occupants of farms	18
Number of other cattle	93
Number of other fowl	32
Number of oxen	7
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	8
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	4
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	4
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	1
Number of sheep	1
Number of swine	111
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	13
Number of turkeys	40
OAT AC	273
OAT BU	8,205
POT AC	6
POT BU	1,090
Pounds of cheese produced on farms in the past year	30
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	4
Pounds of homemade butter	1,900
Tons of hay produced in the past year	60
WHT AC	928
WHT SP BU	16,512

Other recorded variables (61 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	8
A 11 50	1
A 201 PL	4
A 51 100	4
BUTTER LB	1,900
CATTLE KS	4
CHEESE LB	30
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	212
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	219
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	431
COARSE WOOL LB	4
COLTS FILLIES	49
DUCKS	104
FAMILIES	126
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.20
FRN CA	12
GEESE	67
HENS AND CHKN	1,698
HORSES OVR THREE	132
HOUSES	123
HOUSES B	23
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	3
HOUSES FIVE RM	27
HOUSES FOUR RM	15
HOUSES ONE STRY	28
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	67
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	2
HOUSES THREE RM	5
HOUSES THREE STRY	3
HOUSES TWO RM	4
HOUSES TWO STRY	92
HOUSES UNINH	70
HOUSES W	100
INF 11 A	1
MD FEM	101
MD MALE	109
MD TOT	210
MILK COWS	135
NAME CD	Provencher
OC F	9
OC P	9
OC TOT	18
OTHER FOWL	32
OTHER HRN CATTLE	93
OTHERS	648
SHEEP	1
SUP AM	1,278
SUP JV	3
SUP PAT	1,520
SUP SC	1,275
SUP TOT	2,798
SWINE	111
SWINE KS	13
TOT DWLG OCC	123
TUR AC	3
TUR BU	650
TURKEY	40
WID FEM	9
WID MALE	10
WID TOT	19
WORKING OX	7

Identifiers

TCP UID: MB008003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_MB156010 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q312121
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerson,_Manitoba
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerson_(Manitoba)

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1891 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). "Emerson, Town—Ville, Manitoba (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/mb/emerson-town-ville-mb008003-1891/.