Cartwright, Ontario (1891 census)

Cartwright was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 2,026. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.119°N, 78.802°W.

Population

In 1891, Cartwright had a population of 2,026: 1,046 male and 980 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).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Cartwright shared boundaries with:

• Darlington
• Manvers
• Mariposa
• Reach
• Scugog
• Whitby E

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 86 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 2,026 total population, 1,046 males, 980 females, 686 married persons, 412 families, 345 married females, 341 married males, 87 widowed persons, 55 widowed females, 32 widowed males, 4.90 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 1,253 single persons under 18, 673 single males under 18, 580 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 2,024 persons who are not French Canadian, 2 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 410 houses, 410 occupied houses, 358 houses built of wood, 307 houses of 1 story, 228 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 102 houses of 2 stories, 58 houses of 5 rooms, 51 houses of 4 rooms, 49 houses built of brick, 33 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 24 houses of 3 rooms, 18 uninhabited houses, 12 houses of 2 rooms, 8 houses under construction, 4 houses of over 15 rooms, 3 houses built of stone, 1 houses of 3 stories. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 366,948 bushels of turnips, 102,929 pounds of homemade butter, 91,888 bushels of oats, 73,553 bushels of barley, 62,517 bushels of spring wheat, 46,066 bushels of potatoes, 35,095 acres of land in farms, 28,652 acres of improved land in farms, 23,314 acres of farmland under crops, 22,488 bushels of peas, 14,759 chickens, 8,012 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 6,443 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 5,975 tons of hay, 5,522 acres of wheat, 4,831 acres of farmland in pasture, 4,053 acres of barley, 4,019 acres of hay crops, 3,625 acres of oats, 2,685 bushels of buckwheat, 2,655 bushels of rye, 2,149 swine, 2,021 bushels of corn, 1,929 other cattle, 1,831 swine slaughtered or sold, 1,449 sheep, 1,157 milk cows, 1,037 bushels of winter wheat, 968 horses aged over 3 years, 780 sheep slaughtered or sold, 751 geese, 715 acres of turnips, 667 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 609 cattle killed or sold, 507 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 417 horses aged 3 years and under, 383 acres of potatoes, 383 occupants of farms, 352 turkeys, 280 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 268 farm occupants who own their land, 206 ducks, 126 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 124 bushels of beans, 111 farm occupants who rent their land, 103 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 100 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 33 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 30 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 21 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 7 other fowl, 4 employees on farms, 2 oxen. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: ON059002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON108001_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). "Cartwright, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/cartwright-on059002-1891/.