Preston, Village, Ontario (1891 census)

Preston, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,843. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q7241810. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.395°N, 80.353°W.

Population

In 1891, Preston, Village had a population of 1,843: 896 male and 947 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).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Preston, Village shared boundaries with:

• Waterloo S

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 78 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 1,843 total population, 947 females, 896 males, 643 married persons, 381 families, 322 married males, 321 married females, 99 widowed persons, 79 widowed females, 20 widowed males, 4.80 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 1,101 single persons under 18, 554 single males under 18, 547 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 1,842 persons who are not French Canadian, 1 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 379 houses, 379 occupied houses, 279 houses of 1 story, 228 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 218 houses built of wood, 98 houses built of brick, 95 houses of 2 stories, 63 houses built of stone, 61 houses of 5 rooms, 34 houses of 4 rooms, 19 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 18 houses of 3 rooms, 12 houses of 2 rooms, 6 uninhabited houses, 5 houses of 3 stories, 5 houses of over 15 rooms, 3 houses under construction, 2 houses of 1 room. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 5,503 pounds of homemade butter, 4,871 bushels of potatoes, 3,326 bushels of turnips, 2,370 bushels of oats, 2,048 chickens, 1,175 bushels of winter wheat, 939 acres of land in farms, 914 acres of improved land in farms, 615 bushels of corn, 602 acres of farmland under crops, 532 bushels of barley, 480 bushels of peas, 313 occupants of farms, 303 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 286 swine slaughtered or sold, 281 swine, 268 tons of hay, 250 bushels of rye, 225 farm occupants who own their land, 206 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 144 acres of hay crops, 137 horses aged over 3 years, 106 acres of farmland in pasture, 104 acres of oats, 88 farm occupants who rent their land, 72 milk cows, 65 acres of wheat, 51 cattle killed or sold, 51 other cattle, 48 other fowl, 45 geese, 44 acres of potatoes, 35 bushels of spring wheat, 32 bushels of beans, 32 ducks, 29 acres of barley, 25 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 18 acres of turnips, 11 horses aged 3 years and under, 10 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 7 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 2 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 1 bushels of buckwheat, 1 persons living on farms over 200 acres. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: ON124006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON122006 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q7241810
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston,_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). "Preston, Village, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/preston-village-on124006-1891/.