Port Dover, Village, Ontario (1881 census)

Port Dover, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,146. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q7230589. The administrative centroid was at approximately 42.788°N, 80.205°W.

Population

In 1881, Port Dover, Village had a population of 1,146: 561 male and 585 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 Woodhouse, 1871 (1.5% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Port Dover, Village shared boundaries with:

• Woodhouse

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 1,146 total population, 585 females, 561 males, 393 married persons, 235 families, 198 married females, 195 married males, 65 widowed persons, 53 widowed females, 12 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 688 single persons under 18, 354 single males under 18, 334 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 233 occupied houses, 232 inhabited houses, 6 uninhabited houses, 1 dwellings that are temporary vessels, 1 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 3,231 bushels of potatoes, 2,345 bushels of oats, 1,700 bushels of winter wheat, 1,426 bushels of corn, 475 bushels of turnips, 465 bushels of peas and beans, 274 bushels of other root crops, 177 tons of hay, 147 acres of hay crops, 125 bushels of barley, 106 acres of wheat, 40 bushels of rye, 32 acres of potatoes, 30 bushels of buckwheat, 30 bushels of spring wheat, 9 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,145 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: ON157005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON157005 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q7230589
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Dover

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). "Port Dover, Village, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/port-dover-village-on157005-1881/.