Grimsby, Village, Ontario (1881 census)

Name: Grimsby, Village (1881)
Address: Ontario, CA

Grimsby, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 692. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q424901. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.198°N, 79.563°W.

Population

In 1881, Grimsby, Village had a population of 692: 327 male and 365 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.

Earlier boundary forms

In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Grimsby, 1871 (1.7% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Grimsby, Village shared boundaries with:

Grimsby

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 30 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 692 total population, 365 females, 327 males, 262 married persons, 154 families, 133 married females, 129 married males, 51 widowed persons, 36 widowed females, 15 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 379 single persons under 18, 196 single females under 18, 183 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 150 inhabited houses, 150 occupied houses, 16 uninhabited houses, 2 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 1,704 bushels of other root crops, 1,281 bushels of potatoes, 1,057 bushels of winter wheat, 740 bushels of turnips, 610 bushels of corn, 480 bushels of oats, 80 bushels of barley, 54 acres of wheat, 28 acres of hay crops, 28 tons of hay, 13 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 11 acres of potatoes, 8 bushels of buckwheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 692 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: ON145009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON145009 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q424901
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimsby,_Ontario
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimsby_(Canada)

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). "Grimsby, Village, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/grimsby-village-on145009-1881/.