Kemptville, Village, Ontario (1891 census)

Name: Kemptville, Village (1891)
Address: Ontario, CA

Kemptville, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,226. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.021°N, 75.651°W.

Population

In 1891, Kemptville, Village had a population of 1,226: 570 male and 656 female residents. Population density was 1221.8 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1861	1,068
1871	872
1881	1,188
1891	1,226
1901	1,523
1911	1,192
1921	1,204

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, Kemptville, Village shared boundaries with:

Oxford

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 160 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.50
FAM NO	270
Number of families	270
Number of females	656
Number of males	570
Number of married females	203
Number of married males	201
Number of married persons	404
Number of widowed females	42
Number of widowed males	14
Number of widowed persons	56
POP F	656
POP M	570
POP TOT	1,226
Total population	1,226

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	411
Number of single males under 18	355
Number of single persons under 18	766

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	24
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	1,202

Buildings & housing (17 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	270
Number of houses built of brick	56
Number of houses built of stone	12
Number of houses built of wood	202
Number of houses of 1 room	1
Number of houses of 1 story	35
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	23
Number of houses of 2 rooms	6
Number of houses of 2 stories	226
Number of houses of 3 rooms	15
Number of houses of 3 stories	9
Number of houses of 4 rooms	25
Number of houses of 5 rooms	27
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	169
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	4
Number of occupied houses	270
Number of uninhabited houses	2

Agriculture (60 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	4
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	99
Acres of farmland in pasture	334
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	296
Acres of farmland under crops	539
Acres of hay crops	120
Acres of improved land in farms	972
Acres of land in farms	1,268
Acres of oats	163
Acres of potatoes	57
Acres of turnips	2
Acres of wheat	4
BAR AC	4
BAR BU	50
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	50
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	3
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	320
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	256
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	2,455
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	25
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	5,463
Bushels of rye produced in the past year	84
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	44
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	377
BWT BU	320
CRN BU	256
HAY AC	120
HAY TONS	130
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	20
Number of chickens	1,535
Number of ducks	50
Number of farm occupants who own their land	125
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	64
Number of geese	24
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	30
Number of horses aged over 3 years	140
Number of milk cows	131
Number of occupants of farms	189
Number of other cattle	52
Number of other fowl	24
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	10
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	7
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	169
Number of sheep	12
Number of swine	56
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	93
Number of turkeys	6
OAT AC	163
OAT BU	2,455
PEA BU	25
POT AC	57
POT BU	5,463
Pounds of cheese produced on farms in the past year	400
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	48
Pounds of homemade butter	15,860
RYE BU	84
Tons of hay produced in the past year	130
WHT AC	4
WHT SP BU	44

Other recorded variables (63 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	3
A 11 50	10
A 51 100	7
BEN BU	3
BUTTER LB	15,860
CATTLE KS	20
CHEESE LB	400
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	411
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	355
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	766
COARSE WOOL LB	48
COLTS FILLIES	30
DUCKS	50
FAMILIES	270
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.50
FRN CA	24
GEESE	24
HENS AND CHKN	1,535
HORSES OVR THREE	140
HOUSES	270
HOUSES B	56
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	23
HOUSES FIVE RM	27
HOUSES FOUR RM	25
HOUSES ONE RM	1
HOUSES ONE STRY	35
HOUSES S	12
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	169
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	4
HOUSES THREE RM	15
HOUSES THREE STRY	9
HOUSES TWO RM	6
HOUSES TWO STRY	226
HOUSES UNINH	2
HOUSES W	202
INF 11 A	169
MD FEM	203
MD MALE	201
MD TOT	404
MILK COWS	131
NAME CD	Leeds and Grenville North—Nord
OC F	64
OC P	125
OC TOT	189
OTHER FOWL	24
OTHER HRN CATTLE	52
OTHERS	1,202
SHEEP	12
SUP AM	972
SUP FOR	296
SUP JV	99
SUP PAT	334
SUP SC	539
SUP TOT	1,268
SWINE	56
SWINE KS	93
TOT DWLG OCC	270
TUR AC	2
TUR BU	377
TURKEY	6
WID FEM	42
WID MALE	14
WID TOT	56

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON085003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON113008 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.

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). "Kemptville, Village, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/kemptville-village-on085003-1891/.