Stouffville, Village, Ontario (1891 census)

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

Stouffville, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,148. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.982°N, 79.242°W.

Population

In 1891, Stouffville, Village had a population of 1,148: 561 male and 587 female residents. Population density was 1144.5 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1891	1,148
1901	1,223
1911	1,034
1921	1,053

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, Stouffville, Village shared boundaries with:

Whitchurch

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 157 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.20
FAM NO	270
Number of families	270
Number of females	587
Number of males	561
Number of married females	233
Number of married males	232
Number of married persons	465
Number of widowed females	39
Number of widowed males	12
Number of widowed persons	51
POP F	587
POP M	561
POP TOT	1,148
Total population	1,148

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	315
Number of single males under 18	317
Number of single persons under 18	632

Ethnic origin (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	1,148

Buildings & housing (17 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	269
Number of houses built of brick	82
Number of houses built of wood	187
Number of houses of 1 room	2
Number of houses of 1 story	191
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	4
Number of houses of 2 rooms	7
Number of houses of 2 stories	76
Number of houses of 3 rooms	14
Number of houses of 3 stories	2
Number of houses of 4 rooms	25
Number of houses of 5 rooms	39
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	174
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	4
Number of houses under construction	8
Number of occupied houses	269
Number of uninhabited houses	20

Agriculture (58 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	97
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	48
Acres of farmland in pasture	36
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	20
Acres of farmland under crops	130
Acres of hay crops	96
Acres of improved land in farms	214
Acres of land in farms	234
Acres of oats	162
Acres of potatoes	13
Acres of turnips	9
Acres of wheat	69
BAR AC	97
BAR BU	1,975
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	1,975
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	18
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	65
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	4,795
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	860
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	1,797
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	700
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	4,952
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year	465
CRN BU	65
HAY AC	96
HAY TONS	153
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	27
Number of chickens	983
Number of ducks	93
Number of farm occupants who own their land	138
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	100
Number of geese	10
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	17
Number of horses aged over 3 years	144
Number of milk cows	58
Number of occupants of farms	238
Number of other cattle	17
Number of other fowl	4
Number of oxen	3
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	236
Number of sheep	19
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	1
Number of swine	138
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	53
Number of turkeys	4
OAT AC	162
OAT BU	4,795
PEA BU	860
POT AC	13
POT BU	1,797
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	28
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year	70
Pounds of homemade butter	5,655
Tons of hay produced in the past year	153
WHT AC	69
WHT FALL BU	465
WHT SP BU	700

Other recorded variables (63 variables)

Variable	Value
A 11 50	2
BUTTER LB	5,655
CATTLE KS	27
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	315
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	317
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	632
COARSE WOOL LB	28
COLTS FILLIES	17
DUCKS	93
FAMILIES	270
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.20
FINE WOOL LB	70
FRN CA	0
GEESE	10
GRA BU	18
HENS AND CHKN	983
HORSES OVR THREE	144
HOUSES	269
HOUSES B	82
HOUSES CON	8
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	4
HOUSES FIVE RM	39
HOUSES FOUR RM	25
HOUSES ONE RM	2
HOUSES ONE STRY	191
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	174
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	4
HOUSES THREE RM	14
HOUSES THREE STRY	2
HOUSES TWO RM	7
HOUSES TWO STRY	76
HOUSES UNINH	20
HOUSES W	187
INF 11 A	236
MD FEM	233
MD MALE	232
MD TOT	465
MILK COWS	58
NAME CD	Ontario, West-Ouest
OC F	100
OC P	138
OC TOT	238
OTHER FOWL	4
OTHER HRN CATTLE	17
OTHERS	1,148
SHEEP	19
SHEEP KS	1
SUP AM	214
SUP FOR	20
SUP JV	48
SUP PAT	36
SUP SC	130
SUP TOT	234
SWINE	138
SWINE KS	53
TOT DWLG OCC	269
TUR AC	9
TUR BU	4,952
TURKEY	4
WID FEM	39
WID MALE	12
WID TOT	51
WORKING OX	3

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON103003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON154021 — 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). "Stouffville, Village, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/stouffville-village-on103003-1891/.