Ridgetown, Village, Ontario (1881 census)

Name: Ridgetown, Village (1881)
Address: Ontario, CA

Ridgetown, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,538. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q7332787. The administrative centroid was at approximately 42.436°N, 81.883°W.

Population

In 1881, Ridgetown, Village had a population of 1,538: 757 male and 781 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 Howard, 1871 (1.0% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Ridgetown, Village shared boundaries with:

Howard

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 33 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,538 total population, 781 females, 757 males, 557 married persons, 332 families, 280 married females, 277 married males, 46 widowed persons, 30 widowed females, 16 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 935 single persons under 18, 471 single females under 18, 464 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 332 inhabited houses, 332 occupied houses, 2 houses under construction, 2 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 8,907 bushels of corn, 4,261 bushels of potatoes, 4,152 bushels of winter wheat, 1,980 bushels of oats, 1,891 bushels of peas and beans, 607 bushels of other root crops, 487 bushels of spring wheat, 242 acres of wheat, 228 tons of hay, 200 bushels of rye, 174 acres of hay crops, 147 bushels of turnips, 145 bushels of barley, 42 acres of potatoes, 40 bushels of buckwheat, 7 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 1,538 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: ON178009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON178009 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q7332787
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridgetown

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). "Ridgetown, Village, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/ridgetown-village-on178009-1881/.