Yorkville, Village, Ontario (1871 census)

Name: Yorkville, Village (1871)
Address: Ontario, CA

Yorkville, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 2,203. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q1022897. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.676°N, 79.390°W.

Population

In 1871, Yorkville, Village had a population of 2,203: 1,040 male and 1,163 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1861	1,570
1871	2,203
1881	4,825

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.

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD became part of Yorkville, Village, 1881 (58.5% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, Yorkville, Village shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 18 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 2,203 total population, 1,163 females, 1,040 males, 725 married persons, 416 families, 368 married females, 357 married males, 98 widowed persons, 74 widowed females, 24 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 1,380 single persons under 18, 721 single females under 18, 659 single males under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 416 inhabited houses, 416 occupied houses, 32 houses under construction, 10 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 500 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 93 people connected to this place who were alive in 1871, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Andrew Mercer	1778–1871	died here
George Ryerson	1779–1882	died here
Caleb Hopkins	1785–1880	died here
Walter O'Hara	1789–1874	died here
John Doel	1790–1871	died here
William Gooderham	1790–1881	died here
James Richardson	1791–1875	died here
Thomas Fisher	1792–1874	died here
William Hincks	1794–1871	died here
John Ellis	1795–1877	died here
William Benjamin Robinson	1797–1873	died here
William Ryerson	1797–1872	died here
Andrew Norton Buell	1798–1880	died here
A. N. (Alexander Neil) Bethune	1800–1879	died here
William Rees	1800–1874	died here
Anson Green	1801–1879	died here
George Monro	1801–1878	died here
William Cawthra	1801–1880	died here
William Henry Draper	1801–1877	died here
Wilson Ruffin Abbott	1801–1876	died here
George Anthony Barber	1802–1874	died here
James Lesslie	1802–1885	died here
Thomas Clarkson	1802–1874	died here
Egerton Ryerson	1803–1882	died here
Francis Henry Medcalf	1803–1880	died here
Frederick Chase Capreol	1803–1886	died here
Ogle Robert Gowan	1803–1876	died here
Susanna Strickland	1803–1885	died here
Thomas Dennie Harris	1803–1873	died here
William McClure	1803–1871	died here
William R. (William Rawlins) Beaumont	1803–1875	died here
George Buckland	1804–1885	died here
John Jacques	1804–1886	died here
John McMurrich	1804–1883	died here
Andrew Taylor McCord	1805–1881	died here
William Gamble	1805–1881	died here
John Godfrey Spragge	1806–1884	died here
George Percival Ridout	1807–1873	died here
James Paton Clarke	1807–1877	died here
Peter Paterson	1807–1883	died here
Henry James Grasett	1808–1882	died here
John Taylor	1809–1871	died here
Joseph Davis Ridout	1809–1884	died here
Thomas Dick	1809–1874	died here
W. B. (William Benjamin) Wells	1809–1881	died here
Benjamin Lyman	1810–1878	died here
Edward Mulberry Hodder	1810–1878	died here
Paul Kane	1810–1871	died here
Samuel Thompson	1810–1886	died here
William Hamilton	1810–1880	died here
Alexander Somerville	1811–1885	died here
James Dodsley Humphreys	1811–1877	died here
George Duggan	1812–1876	died here
James Porter	1812–1874	died here
W.H. (William Henry) Boulton	1812–1874	died here
William Smith Durie	1813–1885	died here
Alexander Topp	1814–1879	died here
John Jennings	1814–1876	died here
Samuel Dwight Rice	1815–1884	died here
Donald McDonald	1816–1879	died here
George Taylor Denison II	1816–1873	died here
George Templeman Kingston	1816–1886	died here
Joseph Curran Morrison	1816–1885	died here
William Arthur Johnson	1816–1880	died here
Frederick Fauquier	1817–1881	died here
J. Hillyard Cameron	1817–1876	died here
James William Bridgland	1817–1880	died here
John Willoughby Crawford	1817–1875	died here
George Brown	1818–1880	died here
James Gooderham Worts	1818–1882	died here
John Ross	1818–1871	died here
John Smith	1819–1881	died here
Frederic William Cumberland	1820–1881	died here
Angus Morrison	1822–1882	died here
Thomas Nepean Molesworth	1824–1879	died here
D'Arcy Boulton	1825–1875	died here
Bernard Rogan Ross	1827–1874	died here
Charles Legge	1829–1881	died here
Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Harrison	1833–1878	died here
Abram William Lauder	1834–1884	died here
Andrew Greig Fleming	1835–1876	died here
Charles Pelham Mulvany	1835–1885	died here
William Jordan Rattray	1835–1883	died here
Samuel James Watson	1842–1881	died here
Alfred Oakley	1846–1883	died here
Charles Sheard	1857–1929	born here
James Grand	1857–1921	born here
Susan Frances Riley	1857–1935	born here
Emily Spencer	1860–1938	born here
James Alexander MacDonald	1862–1923	born here
Lawrence Solman	1863–1931	born here
William Harley Smith	1863–1929	born here
Joe Boyle	1867–1923	born here

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON045002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON135004 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q1022897

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1871 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). "Yorkville, Village, Ontario (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/yorkville-village-on045002-1871/.