Fort Erie, Village, Ontario (1891 census)

Name: Fort Erie, Village (1891)
Address: Ontario, CA

Fort Erie, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 934. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q268103. The administrative centroid was at approximately 42.910°N, 78.922°W.

Population

In 1891, Fort Erie, Village had a population of 934: 464 male and 470 female residents. Population density was 931.1 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1891	934
1901	890
1911	1,146
1921	1,546

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, Fort Erie, Village shared boundaries with:

Bertie

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 146 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.80
FAM NO	195
Number of families	195
Number of females	470
Number of males	464
Number of married females	158
Number of married males	161
Number of married persons	319
Number of widowed females	47
Number of widowed males	12
Number of widowed persons	59
POP F	470
POP M	464
POP TOT	934
Total population	934

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	265
Number of single males under 18	291
Number of single persons under 18	556

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	1
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	933

Buildings & housing (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	195
Number of houses built of brick	5
Number of houses built of wood	190
Number of houses of 1 story	77
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	19
Number of houses of 2 rooms	3
Number of houses of 2 stories	118
Number of houses of 3 rooms	8
Number of houses of 4 rooms	19
Number of houses of 5 rooms	29
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	109
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	8
Number of houses under construction	1
Number of occupied houses	195
Number of uninhabited houses	1

Agriculture (52 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	67
Acres of farmland in pasture	215
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	57
Acres of farmland under crops	385
Acres of hay crops	139
Acres of improved land in farms	667
Acres of land in farms	724
Acres of oats	93
Acres of potatoes	12
Acres of turnips	1
Acres of wheat	76
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	80
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	65
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	1,911
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	80
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	811
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	110
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year	1,463
BWT BU	80
CRN BU	65
HAY AC	139
HAY TONS	222
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	1
Number of chickens	1,358
Number of ducks	20
Number of farm occupants who own their land	42
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	5
Number of geese	18
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	12
Number of horses aged over 3 years	72
Number of milk cows	94
Number of occupants of farms	47
Number of other cattle	38
Number of other fowl	138
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	10
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	4
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	31
Number of sheep	12
Number of swine	51
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	4
Number of turkeys	8
OAT AC	93
OAT BU	1,911
PEA BU	80
POT AC	12
POT BU	811
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	48
Pounds of homemade butter	1,850
Tons of hay produced in the past year	222
WHT AC	76
WHT FALL BU	1,463

Other recorded variables (59 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	2
A 11 50	10
A 51 100	4
BUTTER LB	1,850
CATTLE KS	1
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	265
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	291
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	556
COARSE WOOL LB	48
COLTS FILLIES	12
DUCKS	20
FAMILIES	195
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.80
FRN CA	1
GEESE	18
HENS AND CHKN	1,358
HORSES OVR THREE	72
HOUSES	195
HOUSES B	5
HOUSES CON	1
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	19
HOUSES FIVE RM	29
HOUSES FOUR RM	19
HOUSES ONE STRY	77
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	109
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	8
HOUSES THREE RM	8
HOUSES TWO RM	3
HOUSES TWO STRY	118
HOUSES UNINH	1
HOUSES W	190
INF 11 A	31
MD FEM	158
MD MALE	161
MD TOT	319
MILK COWS	94
NAME CD	Welland
OC F	5
OC P	42
OC TOT	47
OTHER FOWL	138
OTHER HRN CATTLE	38
OTHERS	933
SHEEP	12
SUP AM	667
SUP FOR	57
SUP JV	67
SUP PAT	215
SUP SC	385
SUP TOT	724
SWINE	51
SWINE KS	4
TOT DWLG OCC	195
TUR AC	1
TUR BU	110
TURKEY	8
WID FEM	47
WID MALE	12
WID TOT	59

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON125004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON151016 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q268103
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Erie,_Ontario
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_%C3%89ri%C3%A9_(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). "Fort Erie, Village, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/fort-erie-village-on125004-1891/.