Norwich, Village, Ontario (1891 census)

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

Norwich, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,255. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q4115370. The administrative centroid was at approximately 42.992°N, 80.595°W.

Population

In 1891, Norwich, Village had a population of 1,255: 596 male and 659 female residents. Population density was 1251.1 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	1,411
1891	1,255
1901	1,269
1911	1,112
1921	1,176

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, Norwich, Village shared boundaries with:

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Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 150 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.10
FAM NO	302
Number of families	302
Number of females	659
Number of males	596
Number of married females	250
Number of married males	250
Number of married persons	500
Number of widowed females	49
Number of widowed males	16
Number of widowed persons	65
POP F	659
POP M	596
POP TOT	1,255
Total population	1,255

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	360
Number of single males under 18	330
Number of single persons under 18	690

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	1
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	1,254

Buildings & housing (16 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	302
Number of houses built of brick	77
Number of houses built of wood	225
Number of houses of 1 story	89
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	23
Number of houses of 2 rooms	4
Number of houses of 2 stories	211
Number of houses of 3 rooms	4
Number of houses of 3 stories	2
Number of houses of 4 rooms	12
Number of houses of 5 rooms	30
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	223
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	6
Number of houses under construction	1
Number of occupied houses	302
Number of uninhabited houses	33

Agriculture (55 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	10
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	132
Acres of farmland in pasture	160
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	79
Acres of farmland under crops	466
Acres of hay crops	153
Acres of improved land in farms	758
Acres of land in farms	837
Acres of oats	65
Acres of potatoes	9
Acres of turnips	1
Acres of wheat	33
BAR AC	10
BAR BU	126
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	126
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	13
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	600
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	1,657
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	421
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	988
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	20
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	250
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year	473
CRN BU	600
HAY AC	153
HAY TONS	222
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	6
Number of chickens	1,442
Number of ducks	4
Number of farm occupants who own their land	163
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	138
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	34
Number of horses aged over 3 years	149
Number of milk cows	67
Number of occupants of farms	301
Number of other cattle	11
Number of oxen	1
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	4
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	293
Number of sheep	17
Number of swine	111
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	28
OAT AC	65
OAT BU	1,657
PEA BU	421
POT AC	9
POT BU	988
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	68
Pounds of homemade butter	400
Tons of hay produced in the past year	222
WHT AC	33
WHT FALL BU	473
WHT SP BU	20

Other recorded variables (59 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	3
A 11 50	4
A 201 PL	1
BUTTER LB	400
CATTLE KS	6
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	360
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	330
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	690
COARSE WOOL LB	68
COLTS FILLIES	34
DUCKS	4
FAMILIES	302
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.10
FRN CA	1
GRA BU	13
HENS AND CHKN	1,442
HORSES OVR THREE	149
HOUSES	302
HOUSES B	77
HOUSES CON	1
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	23
HOUSES FIVE RM	30
HOUSES FOUR RM	12
HOUSES ONE STRY	89
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	223
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	6
HOUSES THREE RM	4
HOUSES THREE STRY	2
HOUSES TWO RM	4
HOUSES TWO STRY	211
HOUSES UNINH	33
HOUSES W	225
INF 11 A	293
MD FEM	250
MD MALE	250
MD TOT	500
MILK COWS	67
NAME CD	Oxford, South—Sud
OC F	138
OC P	163
OC TOT	301
OTHER HRN CATTLE	11
OTHERS	1,254
SHEEP	17
SUP AM	758
SUP FOR	79
SUP JV	132
SUP PAT	160
SUP SC	466
SUP TOT	837
SWINE	111
SWINE KS	28
TOT DWLG OCC	302
TUR AC	1
TUR BU	250
WID FEM	49
WID MALE	16
WID TOT	65
WORKING OX	1

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON106005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON134016 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q4115370
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich,_Ontario
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich_(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). "Norwich, Village, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/norwich-village-on106005-1891/.