Petersville, Village, Ontario (1881 census)
Petersville, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,601. The administrative centroid was at approximately 42.985°N, 81.267°W.
Population
In 1881, Petersville, Village had a population of 1,601: 776 male and 825 female residents.
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.
Earlier boundary forms
- In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in London, Township, 1871 (0.4% share).
Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881
In the 1881 census, Petersville, Village shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 30 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.
Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,601 total population, 825 females, 776 males, 550 married persons, 328 families, 278 married females, 272 married males, 64 widowed persons, 45 widowed females, 19 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 987 single persons under 18, 502 single females under 18, 485 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 328 inhabited houses, 328 occupied houses, 28 uninhabited houses, 6 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 4,305 bushels of potatoes, 1,504 bushels of turnips, 1,101 bushels of other root crops, 345 bushels of corn, 259 bushels of barley, 255 bushels of oats, 120 bushels of winter wheat, 80 bushels of peas and beans, 65 acres of potatoes, 44 tons of hay, 23 acres of hay crops, 5 acres of wheat, 4 bushels of buckwheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)
Residents in 1881
The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,601 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:
ON167005— year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file - Persistent place ID:
PLACE_ON167005— 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 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). "Petersville, Village, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/petersville-village-on167005-1881/.