Dunnville, T-V, Ontario (1891 census)

Dunnville, T-V was a town in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,776. The administrative centroid was at approximately 42.909°N, 79.614°W.

Population

In 1891, Dunnville, T-V had a population of 1,776: 879 male and 897 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, Dunnville, T-V shared boundaries with:

• Moulton

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 81 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 1,776 total population, 897 females, 879 males, 627 married persons, 399 families, 315 married females, 312 married males, 97 widowed persons, 64 widowed females, 33 widowed males, 4.40 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 1,052 single persons under 18, 534 single males under 18, 518 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 1,775 persons who are not French Canadian, 1 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 398 occupied houses, 397 houses, 324 houses built of wood, 239 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 205 houses of 1 story, 172 houses of 2 stories, 69 houses built of brick, 51 houses of 5 rooms, 47 uninhabited houses, 34 houses of 4 rooms, 28 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 18 houses of 3 rooms, 15 houses of 3 stories, 11 houses of 2 rooms, 7 houses of 1 room, 5 houses of over 15 rooms, 3 houses under construction, 1 dwellings that are vessels and shanties, 1 houses of more than 3 stories. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 5,500 pounds of homemade butter, 3,242 bushels of potatoes, 1,838 chickens, 1,327 bushels of turnips, 792 acres of land in farms, 663 acres of improved land in farms, 659 bushels of corn, 425 bushels of oats, 306 occupants of farms, 293 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 292 acres of farmland in pasture, 210 bushels of winter wheat, 210 farm occupants who own their land, 207 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 180 tons of hay, 167 horses aged over 3 years, 164 acres of farmland under crops, 129 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 116 acres of hay crops, 116 swine slaughtered or sold, 98 swine, 96 farm occupants who rent their land, 94 milk cows, 80 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 60 bushels of barley, 50 bushels of buckwheat, 50 bushels of peas, 38 acres of potatoes, 35 acres of oats, 26 ducks, 22 horses aged 3 years and under, 20 sheep, 20 turkeys, 19 acres of wheat, 18 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 10 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 8 other fowl, 6 other cattle, 5 acres of turnips, 4 acres of barley, 2 bushels of beans, 2 cattle killed or sold, 2 geese, 2 oxen, 2 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 1 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: ON094004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON115012_1911 — 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). "Dunnville, T-V, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/dunnville-t-v-on094004-1891/.