Brockville, Centre Ward—Quartier, Ontario (1891 census)

Name: Brockville, Centre Ward—Quartier (1891)
Address: Ontario, CA

Brockville, Centre Ward—Quartier was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,455. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.591°N, 75.687°W.

Population

In 1891, Brockville, Centre Ward—Quartier had a population of 1,455: 660 male and 795 female residents. Population density was 8207.1 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	1,912
1881	1,307
1891	1,455
1901	1,513

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, Brockville, Centre Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 140 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.80
FAM NO	301
Number of families	301
Number of females	795
Number of males	660
Number of married females	233
Number of married males	232
Number of married persons	465
Number of widowed females	78
Number of widowed males	23
Number of widowed persons	101
POP F	795
POP M	660
POP TOT	1,455
Total population	1,455

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	484
Number of single males under 18	405
Number of single persons under 18	889

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	45
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	1,410

Buildings & housing (18 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	290
Number of houses built of brick	87
Number of houses built of stone	123
Number of houses built of wood	80
Number of houses of 1 story	25
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	29
Number of houses of 2 rooms	5
Number of houses of 2 stories	221
Number of houses of 3 rooms	10
Number of houses of 3 stories	43
Number of houses of 4 rooms	22
Number of houses of 5 rooms	27
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	188
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	1
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	9
Number of houses under construction	1
Number of occupied houses	290
Number of uninhabited houses	8

Agriculture (45 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	2
Acres of farmland in pasture	235
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	309
Acres of farmland under crops	83
Acres of hay crops	202
Acres of improved land in farms	320
Acres of land in farms	629
Acres of oats	55
Acres of potatoes	2
Acres of wheat	18
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	100
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	6
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	40
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	1,150
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	257
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	218
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	34
BWT BU	6
CRN BU	40
HAY AC	202
HAY TONS	360
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	115
Number of chickens	261
Number of farm occupants who own their land	3
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	14
Number of horses aged over 3 years	113
Number of milk cows	24
Number of occupants of farms	3
Number of other cattle	115
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	1
Number of sheep	20
Number of swine	22
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	15
Number of turkeys	27
OAT AC	55
OAT BU	1,150
POT AC	2
POT BU	257
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	80
Pounds of homemade butter	1,135
Tons of hay produced in the past year	360
WHT AC	18
WHT SP BU	218

Other recorded variables (57 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	1
A 11 50	1
A 201 PL	1
BEN BU	100
BUTTER LB	1,135
CATTLE KS	115
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	484
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	405
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	889
COARSE WOOL LB	80
COLTS FILLIES	14
FAMILIES	301
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.80
FRN CA	45
HENS AND CHKN	261
HORSES OVR THREE	113
HOUSES	290
HOUSES B	87
HOUSES CON	1
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	29
HOUSES FIVE RM	27
HOUSES FOUR RM	22
HOUSES ONE STRY	25
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	1
HOUSES S	123
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	188
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	9
HOUSES THREE RM	10
HOUSES THREE STRY	43
HOUSES TWO RM	5
HOUSES TWO STRY	221
HOUSES UNINH	8
HOUSES W	80
MD FEM	233
MD MALE	232
MD TOT	465
MILK COWS	24
NAME CD	Brockville
OC P	3
OC TOT	3
OTHER HRN CATTLE	115
OTHERS	1,410
SHEEP	20
SUP AM	320
SUP FOR	309
SUP JV	2
SUP PAT	235
SUP SC	83
SUP TOT	629
SWINE	22
SWINE KS	15
TOT DWLG OCC	290
TUR BU	34
TURKEY	27
WID FEM	78
WID MALE	23
WID TOT	101

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON050001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON047001_1871 — 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 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). "Brockville, Centre Ward—Quartier, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/brockville-centre-ward-quartier-on050001-1891/.