Barton, Ontario (1881 census)

Barton was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 3,525. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.227°N, 79.855°W.

Population

In 1881, Barton had a population of 3,525: 1,791 male and 1,734 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

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

• In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Barton, 1871 (94.0% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Barton shared boundaries with:

• Ancaster
• Glanford
• Hamilton, Ward—Quartier No. 1
• Hamilton, Ward—Quartier No. 2
• Hamilton, Ward—Quartier No. 3
• Hamilton, Ward—Quartier No. 4
• Hamilton, Ward—Quartier No. 7
• Saltfleet

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 34 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 3,525 total population, 1,791 males, 1,734 females, 1,204 married persons, 608 married females, 596 married males, 588 families, 137 widowed persons, 93 widowed females, 44 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 2,184 single persons under 18, 1,151 single males under 18, 1,033 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 586 occupied houses, 585 inhabited houses, 65 uninhabited houses, 9 houses under construction, 1 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 38,955 bushels of oats, 36,866 bushels of potatoes, 35,368 bushels of other root crops, 34,815 bushels of winter wheat, 29,563 bushels of turnips, 13,620 bushels of corn, 10,344 bushels of barley, 3,490 tons of hay, 3,201 bushels of rye, 2,396 acres of hay crops, 1,851 bushels of spring wheat, 1,845 acres of wheat, 1,669 bushels of peas and beans, 352 bushels of buckwheat, 319 acres of potatoes, 289 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 8 people connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 3,525 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: ON147003 — 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 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). "Barton, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/barton-on147003-1881/.