Burlington, Village, Ontario (1881 census)

Burlington, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,068. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q34218. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.332°N, 79.798°W.

Population

In 1881, Burlington, Village had a population of 1,068: 509 male and 559 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 Nelson, 1871 (1.2% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

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

• Nelson

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 32 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,068 total population, 559 females, 509 males, 355 married persons, 217 families, 178 married females, 177 married males, 48 widowed persons, 34 widowed females, 14 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 665 single persons under 18, 347 single females under 18, 318 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 217 inhabited houses, 217 occupied houses, 5 uninhabited houses, 2 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 7,324 bushels of turnips, 4,686 bushels of potatoes, 4,254 bushels of other root crops, 2,171 bushels of corn, 1,944 bushels of oats, 1,214 bushels of winter wheat, 745 bushels of barley, 209 tons of hay, 160 bushels of spring wheat, 147 acres of hay crops, 115 bushels of buckwheat, 76 acres of wheat, 54 acres of potatoes, 53 bushels of peas and beans, 9 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 1,069 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: ON150002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON117005_1881 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q34218
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington,_Ontario
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_(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). "Burlington, Village, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/burlington-village-on150002-1881/.