Hagersville, VL, Ontario (1891 census)

Hagersville, VL was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,061. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q5638649. The administrative centroid was at approximately 42.954°N, 80.058°W.

Population

In 1891, Hagersville, VL had a population of 1,061: 546 male and 515 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).

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 Walpole, 1881 (0.9% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Hagersville, VL shared boundaries with:

• Walpole

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 76 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 1,061 total population, 546 males, 515 females, 386 married persons, 197 families, 193 married females, 193 married males, 45 widowed persons, 30 widowed females, 15 widowed males, 5.40 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 630 single persons under 18, 338 single males under 18, 292 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 1,061 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 197 houses, 197 occupied houses, 151 houses of 2 stories, 141 houses built of wood, 140 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 56 houses built of brick, 44 houses of 1 story, 16 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 16 houses of 5 rooms, 11 houses of 4 rooms, 8 houses of over 15 rooms, 3 houses of 2 rooms, 3 houses of 3 rooms, 2 houses of 3 stories, 1 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 6,720 pounds of homemade butter, 2,550 bushels of oats, 1,394 bushels of spring wheat, 1,279 bushels of barley, 1,149 chickens, 1,096 bushels of turnips, 805 bushels of peas, 732 bushels of winter wheat, 606 acres of land in farms, 526 acres of improved land in farms, 515 bushels of potatoes, 430 acres of farmland under crops, 205 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 199 occupants of farms, 191 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 161 tons of hay, 149 bushels of corn, 149 swine, 133 acres of oats, 131 farm occupants who own their land, 124 acres of wheat, 109 horses aged over 3 years, 97 acres of barley, 88 acres of hay crops, 80 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 79 milk cows, 68 farm occupants who rent their land, 64 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 58 other cattle, 35 sheep, 32 acres of farmland in pasture, 18 turkeys, 16 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 15 horses aged 3 years and under, 12 swine slaughtered or sold, 11 ducks, 11 other fowl, 9 acres of potatoes, 7 geese, 6 bushels of beans, 5 cattle killed or sold, 4 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 3 acres of turnips, 2 oxen, 2 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 2 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 1 person connected to this place who were alive in 1891, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: ON070004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON115015 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q5638649
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagersville,_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). "Hagersville, VL, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/hagersville-vl-on070004-1891/.