Year: 1871 | Province: Ontario

Barton, Ontario (1871 census)

Name: Barton (1871)
Address: Ontario, CA

Barton was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 2,865. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.229°N, 79.855°W.

Population

In 1871, Barton had a population of 2,865: 1,451 male and 1,414 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1851	1,735
1861	2,811
1871	2,865
1881	3,525
1891	4,997
1901	3,620
1911	4,410
1921	10,165

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.

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD contained Barton, 1881 (94.0% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, Barton shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 19 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 2,865 total population, 1,451 males, 1,414 females, 950 married persons, 539 families, 476 married females, 474 married males, 101 widowed persons, 77 widowed females, 24 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 1,814 single persons under 18, 953 single males under 18, 861 single females under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 519 occupied houses, 516 inhabited houses, 5 uninhabited houses, 3 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 2 houses under construction. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 15,748 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 13 people connected to this place who were alive in 1871, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
William Lawson	1793–1875	died here
Edward Jackson	1799–1872	died here
Samuel Sylvester Mills	1806–1874	born and died here
John Young	1808–1873	died here
John Farrell	1820–1873	died here
Joseph Rymal	1821–1900	born and died here
Thomas Mayne Daly, Sr.	1827–1885	born here
Adeline Davis	1844–1919	born here
Charles O’Reilly	1846–1920	born here
Katie McVicar	1856–1886	born here
Robert Calver Fearman	1858–1922	born here
William Blair Bruce	1859–1906	born here
John Charles Fields	1863–1932	born here

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON022003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON153002_1921 — 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 1871 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). "Barton, Ontario (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/barton-on022003-1871/.