Milton, Town—Ville, Ontario (1891 census)

Name: Milton, Town—Ville (1891)
Address: Ontario, CA

Milton, Town—Ville was a town in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,450. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q425057. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.514°N, 79.879°W.

Population

In 1891, Milton, Town—Ville had a population of 1,450: 691 male and 759 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1861	905
1871	891
1881	1,302
1891	1,450
1901	1,372
1911	1,654
1921	1,873

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, Milton, Town—Ville shared boundaries with:

Trafalgar

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 153 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.70
FAM NO	305
Number of families	305
Number of females	759
Number of males	691
Number of married females	244
Number of married males	244
Number of married persons	488
Number of widowed females	65
Number of widowed males	19
Number of widowed persons	84
POP F	759
POP M	691
POP TOT	1,450
Total population	1,450

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	450
Number of single males under 18	428
Number of single persons under 18	878

Ethnic origin (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	1,450

Buildings & housing (19 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	305
Number of houses built of brick	63
Number of houses built of stone	20
Number of houses built of wood	222
Number of houses of 1 room	1
Number of houses of 1 story	204
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	23
Number of houses of 2 rooms	6
Number of houses of 2 stories	96
Number of houses of 3 rooms	13
Number of houses of 3 stories	4
Number of houses of 4 rooms	22
Number of houses of 5 rooms	35
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	202
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	1
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	3
Number of houses under construction	1
Number of occupied houses	305
Number of uninhabited houses	3

Agriculture (54 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	28
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	10
Acres of farmland in pasture	94
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	62
Acres of farmland under crops	401
Acres of hay crops	118
Acres of improved land in farms	505
Acres of land in farms	567
Acres of oats	105
Acres of potatoes	8
Acres of turnips	2
Acres of wheat	58
BAR AC	28
BAR BU	710
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	710
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	9
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	30
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	2,430
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	820
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	764
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	340
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	885
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year	462
CRN BU	30
HAY AC	118
HAY TONS	177
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	10
Number of chickens	1,426
Number of ducks	50
Number of farm occupants who own their land	11
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	1
Number of geese	5
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	22
Number of horses aged over 3 years	132
Number of milk cows	81
Number of occupants of farms	12
Number of other cattle	16
Number of other fowl	17
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	7
Number of swine	54
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	45
Number of turkeys	3
OAT AC	105
OAT BU	2,430
PEA BU	820
POT AC	8
POT BU	764
Pounds of homemade butter	2,750
Tons of hay produced in the past year	177
WHT AC	58
WHT FALL BU	462
WHT SP BU	340

Other recorded variables (61 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	2
A 11 50	3
BEN BU	9
BUTTER LB	2,750
CATTLE KS	10
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	450
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	428
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	878
COLTS FILLIES	22
DUCKS	50
FAMILIES	305
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.70
FRN CA	0
GEESE	5
HENS AND CHKN	1,426
HORSES OVR THREE	132
HOUSES	305
HOUSES B	63
HOUSES CON	1
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	23
HOUSES FIVE RM	35
HOUSES FOUR RM	22
HOUSES ONE RM	1
HOUSES ONE STRY	204
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	1
HOUSES S	20
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	202
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	3
HOUSES THREE RM	13
HOUSES THREE STRY	4
HOUSES TWO RM	6
HOUSES TWO STRY	96
HOUSES UNINH	3
HOUSES W	222
INF 11 A	7
MD FEM	244
MD MALE	244
MD TOT	488
MILK COWS	81
NAME CD	Halton
OC F	1
OC P	11
OC TOT	12
OTHER FOWL	17
OTHER HRN CATTLE	16
OTHERS	1,450
SUP AM	505
SUP FOR	62
SUP JV	10
SUP PAT	94
SUP SC	401
SUP TOT	567
SWINE	54
SWINE KS	45
TOT DWLG OCC	305
TUR AC	2
TUR BU	885
TURKEY	3
WID FEM	65
WID MALE	19
WID TOT	84

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON071005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON117007 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q425057
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton,_Ontario
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_(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). "Milton, Town—Ville, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/milton-town-ville-on071005-1891/.