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Year: 1891  |  Province: Ontario

Winchester, Village, Ontario (1891 census)

Winchester, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 962. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.090°N, 75.340°W.

Population

In 1891, Winchester, Village had a population of 962: 475 male and 487 female residents. Population density was 958.8 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1891962
19011,101
19111,143
19211,126

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

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

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 162 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)
VariableValue
Average size of families4.90
FAM NO194
Number of families194
Number of females487
Number of males475
Number of married females185
Number of married males179
Number of married persons364
Number of widowed females27
Number of widowed males9
Number of widowed persons36
POP F487
POP M475
POP TOT962
Total population962
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18275
Number of single males under 18287
Number of single persons under 18562
Ethnic origin (2 variables)
VariableValue
Number of French Canadians23
Number of persons who are not French Canadian939
Buildings & housing (14 variables)
VariableValue
Number of houses194
Number of houses built of brick45
Number of houses built of stone3
Number of houses built of wood146
Number of houses of 1 story161
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms10
Number of houses of 2 rooms3
Number of houses of 2 stories33
Number of houses of 3 rooms6
Number of houses of 4 rooms21
Number of houses of 5 rooms36
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms115
Number of houses of over 15 rooms3
Number of occupied houses194
Agriculture (63 variables)
VariableValue
Acres of barley86
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards56
Acres of farmland in pasture241
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest220
Acres of farmland under crops500
Acres of hay crops317
Acres of improved land in farms797
Acres of land in farms1,017
Acres of oats108
Acres of potatoes19
Acres of turnips1
Acres of wheat8
BAR AC86
BAR BU1,606
Bushels of barley produced in the past year1,606
Bushels of beans produced in the past year3
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year32
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year5
Bushels of corn produced in the past year40
Bushels of oats produced in the past year1,835
Bushels of peas produced in the past year20
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year2,023
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year80
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year250
BWT BU32
CRN BU40
HAY AC317
HAY TONS476
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year289
Number of chickens1,445
Number of ducks26
Number of employees on farms1
Number of farm occupants who own their land125
Number of farm occupants who rent their land44
Number of geese6
Number of horses aged 3 years and under13
Number of horses aged over 3 years127
Number of milk cows99
Number of occupants of farms170
Number of other cattle36
Number of other fowl18
Number of oxen3
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres1
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres5
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres8
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres156
Number of sheep9
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold206
Number of swine47
Number of swine slaughtered or sold102
Number of turkeys2
OAT AC108
OAT BU1,835
PEA BU20
POT AC19
POT BU2,023
Pounds of cheese produced on farms in the past year10
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year12
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year30
Pounds of homemade butter7,070
Tons of hay produced in the past year476
WHT AC8
WHT SP BU80
Other recorded variables (65 variables)
VariableValue
A 101 2001
A 11 505
A 51 1008
BEN BU3
BUTTER LB7,070
CATTLE KS289
CHEESE LB10
CHILD AND UNMD FEM275
CHILD AND UNMD MALE287
CHILD AND UNMD TOT562
COARSE WOOL LB12
COLTS FILLIES13
DUCKS26
FAMILIES194
FAMILIES AV SIZE4.90
FINE WOOL LB30
FRN CA23
GEESE6
GRA BU5
HENS AND CHKN1,445
HORSES OVR THREE127
HOUSES194
HOUSES B45
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM10
HOUSES FIVE RM36
HOUSES FOUR RM21
HOUSES ONE STRY161
HOUSES S3
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM115
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM3
HOUSES THREE RM6
HOUSES TWO RM3
HOUSES TWO STRY33
HOUSES W146
INF 11 A156
MD FEM185
MD MALE179
MD TOT364
MILK COWS99
NAME CDDundas
OC E1
OC F44
OC P125
OC TOT170
OTHER FOWL18
OTHER HRN CATTLE36
OTHERS939
SHEEP9
SHEEP KS206
SUP AM797
SUP FOR220
SUP JV56
SUP PAT241
SUP SC500
SUP TOT1,017
SWINE47
SWINE KS102
TOT DWLG OCC194
TUR AC1
TUR BU250
TURKEY2
WID FEM27
WID MALE9
WID TOT36
WORKING OX3

Identifiers

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). "Winchester, Village, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/winchester-village-on057008-1891/.