Lucan, Village, Ontario (1891 census)

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

Lucan, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 920. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.196°N, 81.408°W.

Population

In 1891, Lucan, Village had a population of 920: 440 male and 480 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	976
1891	920
1901	848
1911	709
1921	683

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, Lucan, Village shared boundaries with:

Biddulph

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 154 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.60
FAM NO	198
Number of families	198
Number of females	480
Number of males	440
Number of married females	154
Number of married males	152
Number of married persons	306
Number of widowed females	53
Number of widowed males	9
Number of widowed persons	62
POP F	480
POP M	440
POP TOT	920
Total population	920

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	273
Number of single males under 18	279
Number of single persons under 18	552

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	1
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	919

Buildings & housing (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	198
Number of houses built of brick	54
Number of houses built of wood	144
Number of houses of 1 story	98
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	8
Number of houses of 2 stories	94
Number of houses of 3 rooms	5
Number of houses of 3 stories	6
Number of houses of 4 rooms	11
Number of houses of 5 rooms	32
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	138
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	4
Number of houses under construction	2
Number of occupied houses	198
Number of uninhabited houses	5

Agriculture (58 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	29
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	94
Acres of farmland in pasture	352
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	11
Acres of farmland under crops	356
Acres of hay crops	159
Acres of improved land in farms	802
Acres of land in farms	813
Acres of oats	118
Acres of potatoes	42
Acres of turnips	19
Acres of wheat	46
BAR AC	29
BAR BU	930
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	930
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	20
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	495
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	4,270
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	360
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	4,304
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	25
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	5,807
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year	975
CRN BU	495
HAY AC	159
HAY TONS	272
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	170
Number of chickens	1,483
Number of ducks	28
Number of farm occupants who own their land	152
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	27
Number of geese	20
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	27
Number of horses aged over 3 years	122
Number of milk cows	79
Number of occupants of farms	179
Number of other cattle	80
Number of oxen	1
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	7
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	168
Number of sheep	23
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	408
Number of swine	74
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	129
Number of turkeys	1
OAT AC	118
OAT BU	4,270
PEA BU	360
POT AC	42
POT BU	4,304
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	92
Pounds of homemade butter	8,110
Tons of hay produced in the past year	272
WHT AC	46
WHT FALL BU	975
WHT SP BU	25

Other recorded variables (61 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	1
A 11 50	7
A 51 100	3
BEN BU	20
BUTTER LB	8,110
CATTLE KS	170
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	273
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	279
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	552
COARSE WOOL LB	92
COLTS FILLIES	27
DUCKS	28
FAMILIES	198
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.60
FRN CA	1
GEESE	20
HENS AND CHKN	1,483
HORSES OVR THREE	122
HOUSES	198
HOUSES B	54
HOUSES CON	2
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	8
HOUSES FIVE RM	32
HOUSES FOUR RM	11
HOUSES ONE STRY	98
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	138
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	4
HOUSES THREE RM	5
HOUSES THREE STRY	6
HOUSES TWO STRY	94
HOUSES UNINH	5
HOUSES W	144
INF 11 A	168
MD FEM	154
MD MALE	152
MD TOT	306
MILK COWS	79
NAME CD	Middlesex, North—Nord
OC F	27
OC P	152
OC TOT	179
OTHER HRN CATTLE	80
OTHERS	919
SHEEP	23
SHEEP KS	408
SUP AM	802
SUP FOR	11
SUP JV	94
SUP PAT	352
SUP SC	356
SUP TOT	813
SWINE	74
SWINE KS	129
TOT DWLG OCC	198
TUR AC	19
TUR BU	5,807
TURKEY	1
WID FEM	53
WID MALE	9
WID TOT	62
WORKING OX	1

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON091004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON128021 — 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). "Lucan, Village, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/lucan-village-on091004-1891/.