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Year: 1881  |  Province: Ontario  |  Wikidata: Q115262130

Maidstone, Ontario (1881 census)

Maidstone was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 3,260. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q115262130. The administrative centroid was at approximately 42.243°N, 82.798°W.

Population

In 1881, Maidstone had a population of 3,260: 1,763 male and 1,497 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18511,167
18611,652
18712,055
18813,260
18913,127
19013,117
19112,788
19212,432

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Maidstone shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 34 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 3,260 total population, 1,763 males, 1,497 females, 1,024 married persons, 590 families, 513 married males, 511 married females, 116 widowed persons, 69 widowed females, 47 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 2,120 single persons under 18, 1,203 single males under 18, 917 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 577 occupied houses, 574 inhabited houses, 15 uninhabited houses, 9 houses under construction, 3 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 112,528 bushels of corn, 74,104 bushels of oats, 49,203 bushels of winter wheat, 19,364 bushels of potatoes, 2,964 acres of wheat, 2,871 tons of hay, 2,444 bushels of barley, 2,271 acres of hay crops, 1,389 bushels of other root crops, 1,289 bushels of turnips, 857 bushels of peas and beans, 819 bushels of rye, 523 bushels of spring wheat, 361 bushels of buckwheat, 283 acres of potatoes, 160 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 109 people connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

NameLifespanConnection
Jacob Yost Shantz1822–1909born here
Edwin Delevan Tillson1825–1902born here
Sir John Carling1828–1911born here
Walker Powell1828–1915born here
John McClary1829–1921born here
David Mills1831–1903born here
Alexander Sutherland1833–1910born here
Edward Blake1833–1912born here
John McKellar1833–1900born here
Abner Mulholland Rosebrugh1835–1914born here
Ebenezer McColl1835–1902born here
James Young1835–1913born here
Robert Watt Elliot1835–1905born here
Alexander Peter Reid1836–1920born here
Solomon White1836–1911born here
Mountcastle1837–1908born here
James J. (James Jerome) Hill1838–1916born here
John Belmer Armstrong1838–1892born here
John Labatt1838–1915born here
Archibald Blue1840–1914born here
Sir William Ralph Meredith1840–1923born here
Alexander McIntyre1841–1892born here
Elias Weber Bingeman Snider1842–1921born here
John McDougall1842–1917born here
John Pearce1842–1909born here
Seth Newhouse1842–1921born here
David Howard Harrison1843–1905born here
W. D. (William Dillon) Otter1843–1929born here
George Leslie Mackay1844–1901born here
William Bruce McGregor1844–1907born here
A. W. (Arthur Wellington) Ross1846–1901born here
Nathaniel Francis Hagel1846–1915born here
Thomas Hampson Jones English painter1846–1916born here
George Weston Wrigley1847–1907born here
Jacob Kaufman1847–1920born here
James Conmee1848–1913born here
Mary Jane Baker1849–1934born here
Jeffry Hall Brock1850–1915born here
John Arthur Gibson1850–1912born here
Matthew McCauley1850–1930born here
Sir Henry Vincent Meredith1850–1929born here
Francis Huston Wallace1851–1930born here
Robert Brett1851–1929born here
John Andrew Davidson1852–1903born here
Otto Julius Klotz1852–1923born here
Thomas Mayne Daly1852–1911born here
Peter Bryce1853–1932born here
Sara Mickle1853–1930born here
Charles Kingsmill1855–1935born here
Edmund Ernest Sheppard1855–1924born here
John Adam Rittinger1855–1915born here
John Campbell Ferrie Bown1856–1933born here
Catherine Trask1857–1925born here
Donald McGillivray1857–1900born here
John Lineham1857–1913born here
Sir Adam Beck1857–1925born here
Thomas Daniel Green1857–1935born here
William James Thomson1857–1927born here
Adelaide Sophia Hunter1858–1910born here
Edmund Marter Wood1858–1936born here
James Alexander MacDonald1858–1939born here
Tip O'Neill1858–1915born here
Wallace Nesbitt1858–1930born here
William James McKay1858–1922born here
J. P. (James Pitt) Mabee1859–1912born here
Mary MacNeillb. 1859born here
James Bower1860–1921born here
John Douglas Fraser Drummond1860–1925born here
John Taylor Fotheringham1860–1940born here
Paul Peel1860–1892born here
Thomas Leopold Willson1860–1915born here
Perry E. Doolittle1861–1933born here
Sara Jeannette Duncan1861–1922born here
Sir Clifford Sifton1861–1929born here
Archibald MacMechan1862–1933born here
Carl Ahrens1862–1936born here
Sarah Alice Rowell1862–1930born here
William John Hanna1862–1919born here
George Harcourt1863–1940born here
Rachel Jeffrey Coutts1863–1940born here
Annie Gardner Barr1864–1921born here
Daniel Salmon Hamilton1864–1929born here
Edward Bayly1865–1934born here
John Henderson Lamont1865–1936born here
John Joseph Mackenzie1865–1922born here
William Charles Sutherland1865–1940born here
Ezra Carl Breithaupt1866–1897born here
Walter Cameron Nichol1866–1928born here
William Lash Miller1866–1940born here
Newton Wesley Rowell1867–1941born here
Sir Edward Whipple Bancroft Morrison1867–1925born here
Emma Priscilla Scott1868–1940born here
Margaret Eleanor Theodora Addison1868–1940born here
Susanna Carson1868–1908born here
Alfred Davis Fidler1869–1927born here
Alfred Schmitz Shadd1870–1915born here
Jean Isabelle Dow1870–1927born here
Thomas Llewellyn Metcalfe1870–1922born here
Isabel Johnstone1872–1923born here
Maitland Stewart McCarthy1872–1930born here
Deskaheh1873–1925born here
Robert Francis Forster1873–1929born here
David Alexander Stewart1874–1937born here
Isabel Ecclestone Mackay1875–1928born here
Sir Arthur Currie1875–1933born here
Franklin Wellington Wegenast1876–1942born here
Harriet Brooks1876–1933born here
Robert Walter Paterson1876–1936born here
Maud Leonora Menten1879–1960born here

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 3,260 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

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). "Maidstone, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/maidstone-on181014-1881/.