Springfield, Village, Ontario (1891 census)

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

Springfield, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 463. The administrative centroid was at approximately 42.824°N, 80.930°W.

Population

In 1891, Springfield, Village had a population of 463: 228 male and 235 female residents. Population density was 456.4 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	555
1891	463
1901	501
1911	454
1921	460

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, Springfield, Village shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 143 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	3.70
FAM NO	123
Number of families	123
Number of females	235
Number of males	228
Number of married females	104
Number of married males	104
Number of married persons	208
Number of widowed females	19
Number of widowed males	5
Number of widowed persons	24
POP F	235
POP M	228
POP TOT	463
Total population	463

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	112
Number of single males under 18	119
Number of single persons under 18	231

Ethnic origin (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	463

Buildings & housing (13 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	123
Number of houses built of brick	9
Number of houses built of wood	114
Number of houses of 1 story	63
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	15
Number of houses of 2 stories	60
Number of houses of 3 rooms	1
Number of houses of 4 rooms	10
Number of houses of 5 rooms	18
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	77
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	2
Number of occupied houses	123
Number of uninhabited houses	2

Agriculture (56 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	9
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	72
Acres of farmland in pasture	212
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	40
Acres of farmland under crops	317
Acres of hay crops	118
Acres of improved land in farms	601
Acres of land in farms	641
Acres of oats	60
Acres of potatoes	17
Acres of turnips	3
Acres of wheat	44
BAR AC	9
BAR BU	140
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	140
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	37
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	10
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	1,235
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	1,535
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	130
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	1,129
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	100
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	934
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year	804
BWT BU	10
CRN BU	1,235
HAY AC	118
HAY TONS	189
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	11
Number of chickens	854
Number of ducks	13
Number of farm occupants who own their land	79
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	25
Number of geese	15
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	20
Number of horses aged over 3 years	56
Number of milk cows	83
Number of occupants of farms	104
Number of other cattle	39
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	5
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	96
Number of sheep	13
Number of swine	83
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	90
OAT AC	60
OAT BU	1,535
PEA BU	130
POT AC	17
POT BU	1,129
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	59
Pounds of homemade butter	3,900
Tons of hay produced in the past year	189
WHT AC	44
WHT FALL BU	804
WHT SP BU	100

Other recorded variables (55 variables)

Variable	Value
A 11 50	3
A 51 100	5
BEN BU	37
BUTTER LB	3,900
CATTLE KS	11
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	112
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	119
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	231
COARSE WOOL LB	59
COLTS FILLIES	20
DUCKS	13
FAMILIES	123
FAMILIES AV SIZE	3.70
FRN CA	0
GEESE	15
HENS AND CHKN	854
HORSES OVR THREE	56
HOUSES	123
HOUSES B	9
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	15
HOUSES FIVE RM	18
HOUSES FOUR RM	10
HOUSES ONE STRY	63
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	77
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	2
HOUSES THREE RM	1
HOUSES TWO STRY	60
HOUSES UNINH	2
HOUSES W	114
INF 11 A	96
MD FEM	104
MD MALE	104
MD TOT	208
MILK COWS	83
NAME CD	Middlesex, East—Est
OC F	25
OC P	79
OC TOT	104
OTHER HRN CATTLE	39
OTHERS	463
SHEEP	13
SUP AM	601
SUP FOR	40
SUP JV	72
SUP PAT	212
SUP SC	317
SUP TOT	641
SWINE	83
SWINE KS	90
TOT DWLG OCC	123
TUR AC	3
TUR BU	934
WID FEM	19
WID MALE	5
WID TOT	24

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON090007 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON109013 — 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 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). "Springfield, Village, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/springfield-village-on090007-1891/.