Newcastle, VL, Ontario (1881 census)

Newcastle, VL was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,060. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q555690. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.910°N, 78.589°W.

Population

In 1881, Newcastle, VL had a population of 1,060: 543 male and 517 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.

Later boundary forms

• In a later year, this CSD contained Newcastle, VL, 1891 (31.6% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Newcastle, VL shared boundaries with:

• Clarke

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 31 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,060 total population, 543 males, 517 females, 333 married persons, 202 families, 168 married females, 165 married males, 50 widowed persons, 35 widowed females, 15 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 677 single persons under 18, 363 single males under 18, 314 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 202 inhabited houses, 202 occupied houses, 31 uninhabited houses, 2 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 24,167 bushels of turnips, 11,917 bushels of barley, 7,941 bushels of peas and beans, 7,322 bushels of oats, 6,609 bushels of potatoes, 6,461 bushels of other root crops, 3,298 bushels of spring wheat, 1,295 bushels of winter wheat, 737 bushels of corn, 535 tons of hay, 335 acres of hay crops, 284 acres of wheat, 91 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 43 acres of potatoes. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 4 people connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,060 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: ON128002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON108010_1911 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q555690
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle,_Ontario
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle_(Ontario)

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). "Newcastle, VL, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/newcastle-vl-on128002-1881/.