Clifford, Village, Ontario (1891 census)

Name: Clifford, Village (1891)
Address: Ontario, CA

Clifford, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 634. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q5132842. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.972°N, 80.975°W.

Population

In 1891, Clifford, Village had a population of 634: 330 male and 304 female residents. Population density was 632.0 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	722
1891	634
1901	608
1911	595
1921	469

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, Clifford, Village shared boundaries with:

Minto

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 153 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.20
FAM NO	121
Number of families	121
Number of females	304
Number of males	330
Number of married females	109
Number of married males	109
Number of married persons	218
Number of widowed females	9
Number of widowed males	7
Number of widowed persons	16
POP F	304
POP M	330
POP TOT	634
Total population	634

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	186
Number of single males under 18	214
Number of single persons under 18	400

Ethnic origin (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	634

Buildings & housing (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	121
Number of houses built of brick	17
Number of houses built of wood	101
Number of houses of 1 story	94
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	12
Number of houses of 2 rooms	1
Number of houses of 2 stories	25
Number of houses of 3 rooms	6
Number of houses of 3 stories	2
Number of houses of 4 rooms	17
Number of houses of 5 rooms	11
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	69
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	5
Number of occupied houses	121
Number of uninhabited houses	7

Agriculture (57 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	15
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	61
Acres of farmland in pasture	156
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	261
Acres of farmland under crops	427
Acres of hay crops	171
Acres of improved land in farms	644
Acres of land in farms	905
Acres of oats	94
Acres of potatoes	32
Acres of turnips	10
Acres of wheat	82
BAR AC	15
BAR BU	310
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	310
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	2,930
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	1,102
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	3,581
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	403
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	4,620
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year	1,005
HAY AC	171
HAY TONS	225
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	16
Number of chickens	986
Number of ducks	20
Number of farm occupants who own their land	86
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	40
Number of geese	94
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	23
Number of horses aged over 3 years	78
Number of milk cows	97
Number of occupants of farms	126
Number of other cattle	44
Number of other fowl	5
Number of oxen	2
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	5
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	117
Number of sheep	52
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	23
Number of swine	177
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	64
Number of turkeys	40
OAT AC	94
OAT BU	2,930
PEA BU	1,102
POT AC	32
POT BU	3,581
Pounds of cheese produced on farms in the past year	130
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	157
Pounds of homemade butter	6,990
Tons of hay produced in the past year	225
WHT AC	82
WHT FALL BU	1,005
WHT SP BU	403

Other recorded variables (62 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	2
A 11 50	2
A 51 100	5
BUTTER LB	6,990
CATTLE KS	16
CHEESE LB	130
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	186
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	214
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	400
COARSE WOOL LB	157
COLTS FILLIES	23
DUCKS	20
FAMILIES	121
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.20
FRN CA	0
GEESE	94
HENS AND CHKN	986
HORSES OVR THREE	78
HOUSES	121
HOUSES B	17
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	12
HOUSES FIVE RM	11
HOUSES FOUR RM	17
HOUSES ONE STRY	94
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	69
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	5
HOUSES THREE RM	6
HOUSES THREE STRY	2
HOUSES TWO RM	1
HOUSES TWO STRY	25
HOUSES UNINH	7
HOUSES W	101
INF 11 A	117
MD FEM	109
MD MALE	109
MD TOT	218
MILK COWS	97
NAME CD	Wellington, North-Nord
OC F	40
OC P	86
OC TOT	126
OTHER FOWL	5
OTHER HRN CATTLE	44
OTHERS	634
SHEEP	52
SHEEP KS	23
SUP AM	644
SUP FOR	261
SUP JV	61
SUP PAT	156
SUP SC	427
SUP TOT	905
SWINE	177
SWINE KS	64
TOT DWLG OCC	121
TUR AC	10
TUR BU	4,620
TURKEY	40
WID FEM	9
WID MALE	7
WID TOT	16
WORKING OX	2

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON127004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON152018 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q5132842
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford,_Ontario

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). "Clifford, Village, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/clifford-village-on127004-1891/.