Huntsville, T-V, Ontario (1891 census)

Huntsville, T-V was a town in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,159. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q1024091. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.330°N, 79.226°W.

Population

In 1891, Huntsville, T-V had a population of 1,159: 607 male and 552 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 Chaffey, Perry, Bethune, Proudfoot, 1881 (0.3% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Huntsville, T-V shared boundaries with:

• Franklin, Sinclair & Chaffey

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 83 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 1,159 total population, 607 males, 552 females, 421 married persons, 234 families, 211 married males, 210 married females, 34 widowed persons, 20 widowed females, 14 widowed males, 4.90 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 704 single persons under 18, 382 single males under 18, 322 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 1,159 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 227 houses, 227 occupied houses, 213 houses built of wood, 185 houses of 2 stories, 89 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 40 houses of 4 rooms, 37 houses of 5 rooms, 35 houses of 1 story, 25 houses of 2 rooms, 16 houses of 3 rooms, 11 houses under construction, 7 uninhabited houses, 6 houses built of brick, 6 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 4 houses of 1 room, 4 houses of over 15 rooms, 2 houses built of stone, 1 houses of 3 stories. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 9,464 acres of land in farms, 7,716 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 5,440 pounds of homemade butter, 2,585 bushels of oats, 1,748 acres of improved land in farms, 1,498 bushels of potatoes, 990 acres of farmland under crops, 702 acres of farmland in pasture, 578 chickens, 522 bushels of turnips, 370 tons of hay, 341 cattle killed or sold, 327 acres of hay crops, 320 bushels of peas, 316 sheep slaughtered or sold, 246 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 210 swine slaughtered or sold, 130 bushels of barley, 93 acres of oats, 88 milk cows, 83 occupants of farms, 82 swine, 80 farm occupants who own their land, 80 horses aged over 3 years, 69 sheep, 64 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 56 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 55 other cattle, 40 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 30 bushels of buckwheat, 27 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 25 bushels of spring wheat, 20 bushels of winter wheat, 20 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 16 acres of potatoes, 15 ducks, 15 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 13 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 12 turkeys, 10 geese, 8 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 6 acres of barley, 4 horses aged 3 years and under, 4 other fowl, 4 oxen, 3 acres of wheat, 3 farm occupants who rent their land, 2 acres of turnips, 2 bushels of beans, 1 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (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: ON095014 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON129026_1911 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q1024091

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). "Huntsville, T-V, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/huntsville-t-v-on095014-1891/.