Brockville Town, North Ward—Quartier Nord, Ontario (1891 census)

Name: Brockville Town, North Ward—Quartier Nord (1891)
Address: Ontario, CA

Brockville Town, North Ward—Quartier Nord was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,766. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.599°N, 75.691°W.

Population

In 1891, Brockville Town, North Ward—Quartier Nord had a population of 1,766: 840 male and 926 female residents. Population density was 3526.7 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	1,683
1891	1,766
1901	1,731

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 Town, North Ward—Quartier Nord shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 148 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.60
FAM NO	386
Number of families	386
Number of females	926
Number of males	840
Number of married females	334
Number of married males	333
Number of married persons	667
Number of widowed females	80
Number of widowed males	19
Number of widowed persons	99
POP F	926
POP M	840
POP TOT	1,766
Total population	1,766

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	512
Number of single males under 18	488
Number of single persons under 18	1,000

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	11
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	1,755

Buildings & housing (18 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	380
Number of houses built of brick	90
Number of houses built of stone	8
Number of houses built of wood	282
Number of houses of 1 room	2
Number of houses of 1 story	63
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	5
Number of houses of 2 rooms	1
Number of houses of 2 stories	315
Number of houses of 3 rooms	12
Number of houses of 3 stories	1
Number of houses of 4 rooms	17
Number of houses of 5 rooms	54
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	288
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	1
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	1
Number of occupied houses	380
Number of uninhabited houses	11

Agriculture (51 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	14
Acres of farmland in pasture	143
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	225
Acres of farmland under crops	211
Acres of hay crops	147
Acres of improved land in farms	368
Acres of land in farms	593
Acres of oats	72
Acres of potatoes	4
Acres of turnips	2
Acres of wheat	8
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	1
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	292
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	200
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	970
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	90
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	709
Bushels of rye produced in the past year	12
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	128
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	301
BWT BU	292
CRN BU	200
HAY AC	147
HAY TONS	197
Number of chickens	861
Number of ducks	9
Number of farm occupants who own their land	13
Number of geese	15
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	8
Number of horses aged over 3 years	87
Number of milk cows	70
Number of occupants of farms	13
Number of other cattle	11
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	7
Number of sheep	1
Number of swine	21
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	11
OAT AC	72
OAT BU	970
PEA BU	90
POT AC	4
POT BU	709
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	4
Pounds of homemade butter	1,020
RYE BU	12
Tons of hay produced in the past year	197
WHT AC	8
WHT SP BU	128

Other recorded variables (59 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	2
A 11 50	1
A 51 100	3
BEN BU	1
BUTTER LB	1,020
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	512
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	488
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	1,000
COARSE WOOL LB	4
COLTS FILLIES	8
DUCKS	9
FAMILIES	386
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.60
FRN CA	11
GEESE	15
HENS AND CHKN	861
HORSES OVR THREE	87
HOUSES	380
HOUSES B	90
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	5
HOUSES FIVE RM	54
HOUSES FOUR RM	17
HOUSES ONE RM	2
HOUSES ONE STRY	63
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	1
HOUSES S	8
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	288
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	1
HOUSES THREE RM	12
HOUSES THREE STRY	1
HOUSES TWO RM	1
HOUSES TWO STRY	315
HOUSES UNINH	11
HOUSES W	282
INF 11 A	7
MD FEM	334
MD MALE	333
MD TOT	667
MILK COWS	70
NAME CD	Brockville
OC P	13
OC TOT	13
OTHER HRN CATTLE	11
OTHERS	1,755
SHEEP	1
SUP AM	368
SUP FOR	225
SUP JV	14
SUP PAT	143
SUP SC	211
SUP TOT	593
SWINE	21
SWINE KS	11
TOT DWLG OCC	380
TUR AC	2
TUR BU	301
WID FEM	80
WID MALE	19
WID TOT	99

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON050003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON047003 — 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 Town, North Ward—Quartier Nord, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/brockville-town-north-ward-quartier-nord-on050003-1891/.