Tilsonburgh, Ontario (1881 census)

Tilsonburgh was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,873. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q2415848. The administrative centroid was at approximately 42.864°N, 80.722°W.

Population

In 1881, Tilsonburgh had a population of 1,873: 932 male and 941 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 Dereham, 1871 (1.4% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Tilsonburgh shared boundaries with:

• Dereham
• Tilsonburg, Town—Ville

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 1,873 total population, 941 females, 932 males, 708 married persons, 402 families, 355 married females, 353 married males, 81 widowed persons, 54 widowed females, 27 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,084 single persons under 18, 552 single males under 18, 532 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 400 occupied houses, 399 inhabited houses, 7 houses under construction, 7 uninhabited houses, 1 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 7,928 bushels of potatoes, 6,553 bushels of oats, 4,752 bushels of corn, 3,782 bushels of other root crops, 2,786 bushels of turnips, 1,894 bushels of winter wheat, 1,442 bushels of peas and beans, 204 tons of hay, 198 bushels of rye, 189 bushels of buckwheat, 161 acres of hay crops, 137 acres of wheat, 87 acres of potatoes, 25 bushels of barley, 11 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 1,873 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: ON165002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON165002 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q2415848
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillsonburg
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillsonburg

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). "Tilsonburgh, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/tilsonburgh-on165002-1881/.