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Year: 1891  |  Province: Ontario

Eganville (part), Village, Ontario (1891 census)

Eganville (part), Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 315. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.545°N, 77.103°W.

Population

In 1891, Eganville (part), Village had a population of 315: 166 male and 149 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1891315
1901539

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Eganville (part), Village shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 58 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 315 total population, 166 males, 149 females, 106 married persons, 60 families, 54 married males, 52 married females, 9 widowed persons, 8 widowed females, 5.20 average size of families, 1 widowed males. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 200 single persons under 18, 111 single males under 18, 89 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 314 persons who are not French Canadian, 1 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 56 houses, 56 occupied houses, 55 houses built of wood, 47 houses of 1 story, 33 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 9 houses of 2 stories, 7 houses of 3 rooms, 6 houses of 5 rooms, 5 houses of 4 rooms, 4 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 1 houses built of stone, 1 houses of 2 rooms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 95,925 pounds of homemade butter, 30,072 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 13,013 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 11,138 chickens, 4,187 sheep, 2,123 other cattle, 1,818 sheep slaughtered or sold, 1,725 milk cows, 1,709 swine, 1,136 swine slaughtered or sold, 978 turkeys, 861 geese, 754 horses aged over 3 years, 667 cattle killed or sold, 377 bushels of potatoes, 303 horses aged 3 years and under, 191 ducks, 110 bushels of oats, 64 other fowl, 40 bushels of spring wheat, 30 bushels of peas, 27 oxen, 12 bushels of beans, 11 acres of hay crops, 11 tons of hay, 6 acres of wheat, 5 acres of oats, 3 acres of potatoes, 2 bushels of buckwheat, 1 pounds of fine wool produced on farms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

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). "Eganville (part), Village, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/eganville-part-village-on114013-1891/.