Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt & C., Ontario (1881 census)

Name: Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt & C. (1881)
Address: Ontario, CA

Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt & C. was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,087. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.138°N, 78.371°W.

Population

In 1881, Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt & C. had a population of 1,087: 572 male and 515 female residents.

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.

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD became part of Harcourt, Dudley, Dysart, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Clyde, Eyre, Havelock, Livingstone, Lawrence & Nightingale, 1891 (45.7% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt & C. shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 34 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,087 total population, 572 males, 515 females, 333 married persons, 192 families, 169 married females, 164 married males, 21 widowed persons, 13 widowed females, 8 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 733 single persons under 18, 400 single males under 18, 333 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 192 occupied houses, 189 inhabited houses, 13 uninhabited houses, 3 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 2 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 24,685 bushels of turnips, 13,683 bushels of oats, 13,366 bushels of potatoes, 3,025 bushels of spring wheat, 2,157 bushels of peas and beans, 1,552 acres of hay crops, 1,500 tons of hay, 710 bushels of buckwheat, 444 bushels of other root crops, 349 acres of wheat, 314 bushels of barley, 310 bushels of rye, 306 bushels of corn, 115 acres of potatoes, 71 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 8 bushels of winter wheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,087 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: ON125011 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON125011 — 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 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). "Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt & C., Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/dysart-dudley-harcourt-c-on125011-1881/.