Brighton, Village, Ontario (1881 census)

Name: Brighton, Village (1881)
Address: Ontario, CA

Brighton, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,547. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q2925383. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.039°N, 77.740°W.

Population

In 1881, Brighton, Village had a population of 1,547: 738 male and 809 female residents.

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 Brighton, Village, 1891 (15.6% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

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

Brighton

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 33 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,547 total population, 809 females, 738 males, 546 married persons, 331 families, 274 married females, 272 married males, 75 widowed persons, 64 widowed females, 11 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 926 single persons under 18, 471 single females under 18, 455 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 325 inhabited houses, 325 occupied houses, 25 uninhabited houses, 8 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 11,496 bushels of potatoes, 8,364 bushels of barley, 7,005 bushels of oats, 4,954 bushels of corn, 2,022 bushels of other root crops, 1,970 bushels of spring wheat, 1,806 bushels of peas and beans, 1,426 bushels of buckwheat, 846 bushels of turnips, 524 tons of hay, 406 acres of hay crops, 315 bushels of rye, 249 bushels of winter wheat, 239 acres of wheat, 91 acres of potatoes, 45 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,547 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: ON123004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON123004 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q2925383
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Ontario
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_(Ontario)

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). "Brighton, Village, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/brighton-village-on123004-1881/.