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Year: 1881  |  Province: Ontario

Arnprior, Village, Ontario (1881 census)

Arnprior, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,147. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.427°N, 76.362°W.

Population

In 1881, Arnprior, Village had a population of 2,147: 1,067 male and 1,080 female residents. Population density was 745.6 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1861670
18711,714
18812,147
18913,341
19014,152
19114,405
19214,077

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

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Arnprior, Village shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 55 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)
VariableValue
FAM NO394
Number of families394
Number of females1,080
Number of males1,067
Number of married females330
Number of married males325
Number of married persons655
Number of widowed females61
Number of widowed males21
Number of widowed persons82
POP TOT2,147
Total population2,147
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18689
Number of single males under 18721
Number of single persons under 181,410
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
VariableValue
Number of houses under construction2
Number of inhabited houses394
Number of occupied houses394
Number of uninhabited houses18
Agriculture (19 variables)
VariableValue
Acres of hay crops57
Acres of potatoes11
Acres of wheat31
BAR BU30
Bushels of barley produced in the past year30
Bushels of oats produced in the past year350
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year235
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year1,450
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year285
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year400
HAY AC57
HAY TONS46
OAT BU350
PEA AND BEN BU235
POT AC11
POT BU1,450
Tons of hay produced in the past year46
WHT AC31
WHT SP BU285
Other recorded variables (17 variables)
VariableValue
C UNMD F689
C UNMD M721
C UNMD TOT1,410
D OCC394
FEMALE1,080
H CON2
H INHAB394
H UNINH18
MALE1,067
MD F330
MD M325
MD TOT655
NUMBER CD113
TUR BU400
WID F61
WID M21
WID TOT82

Identifiers

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). "Arnprior, Village, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/arnprior-village-on113013-1881/.