Yorkville, Village, Ontario (1861 census)

Name: Yorkville, Village (1861)
Address: Ontario, CA

Yorkville, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1861 Census of Canada with a population of 1,570. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q1022897. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.676°N, 79.390°W.

Population

In 1861, Yorkville, Village had a population of 1,570: 720 male and 850 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.

Earlier boundary forms

In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in York, 1851 (0.7% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1861

In the 1861 census, Yorkville, Village shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1861

The 1861 census recorded 113 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories.

Population & families (1861). This community's record includes 1,570 total population, 850 females, 720 males, Female members of the family who are present: 716, Male members of the family who are present: 623, 547 single females, 463 single males, 260 married females, 241 married males, Females present who are not members of the family: 134, 116 males attending school, 98 females attending school, Males present who are not members of the family: 97, 43 widowed females, 36 female births, 19 male births, 18 adult females unable to read or write, 16 widowed males, 9 adult males unable to read or write, 1 lunatic females. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V1T5.)

Age structure (1861). This community's record includes 103 single females aged 20 to 30, 100 single females aged 15 to 20, 88 single males aged 10 to 15, 86 married males aged 30 to 40, 86 single males aged 20 to 30, 85 single females aged 10 to 15, 81 married females aged 20 to 30, 81 married females aged 30 to 40, 79 single males aged 15 to 20, 70 females aged 5 to 10, 66 males aged 5 to 10, 58 married males aged 40 to 50, 47 married females aged 40 to 50, 40 married males aged 20 to 30, 37 females aged 1 to 2, 34 females age 3 to 4, 31 married males aged 50 to 60, 30 married females aged 50 to 60, 27 single females aged 30 to 40, 26 males aged 1 to 2, 25 females aged 4 to 5, 25 males aged 3 to 4, 22 females aged 2 to 3, 22 males aged 4 to 5, 21 single males aged 30 to 40, 20 married males aged 60 to 70, 19 males aged 2 to 3, 13 widowed females aged 40 to 50, 10 widowed females aged 50 to 60, 9 married females aged 60 to 70, 7 widowed females aged 60 to 70, 7 widowed males aged 40 to 50, 6 married females aged 15 to 20, 6 married females aged 70 to 80, 6 single males aged 40 to 50, 5 married males aged 70 to 80, 5 widowed females aged 30 to 40, 4 single females aged 40 to 50, 3 single females aged 50 to 60, 3 single males aged 50 to 60, 3 widowed females aged 70 to 80, 2 widowed females aged 20 to 30, 2 widowed females aged 80 to 90, 2 widowed males aged 50 to 60, 2 widowed males aged 60 to 70, 2 widowed males aged 80 to 90, 1 males of unknown age, 1 married males aged 80 to 90, 1 single females aged 60 to 70, 1 single males aged 60 to 70, 1 single males aged 70 to 80, 1 widowed females aged 90 to 100, 1 widowed males aged 30 to 40, 1 widowed males aged 70 to 80. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V1T5.) The 1861 enumerator also recorded 1 widowed males over 100 — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Ethnic origin (1861). This community's record includes 698 persons native to Canada, not of French origin, 473 persons originating in England or Wales, 227 persons originating in Ireland, 83 persons originating in Scotland, 56 persons originating in the United States, 36 negroes or coloured persons, 20 female negroes or coloured persons, 16 male negroes or coloured persons, 9 persons originating in New Brunswick, 7 persons originating in Germany or Holland, 4 persons whose origin is unknown, 2 persons originating in all other places, 2 persons originating in Nova Scotia or Prince Edward Island, 2 persons originating in the West Indies, 1 persons originating in France, 1 persons originating in Italy or Greece. 5 persons originating in Guernsey, Jersey, or other British islands. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T5.)

Agriculture (1861). This community's record includes $7,710 value all livestock, 177 acres of farmland held by townspeople who are not farmers, 73 horses aged over 3 years, 66 milk cows, 50 swine. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V2T11.)

Manufacturing & industry (1861). This community's record includes $2,656 value carriages for pleasure (dollars), $1,284 value carriages for hire (dollars), 36 carriages for pleasure, 17 carriages for hire. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V2T11.)

Deaths & mortality (1861). This community's record includes 9 total number of deaths, Deaths in the past year among males of all ages: 5, Deaths in the past year among females of all ages: 4, Deaths in the past year among females aged 15 to 20: 1, Deaths in the past year among females aged 30 to 40: 1, Deaths in the past year among females aged 40 to 50: 1, Deaths in the past year among females aged 5 to 10: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 2 to 3: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 30 to 40: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 60 to 70: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 70 to 80: 1, Deaths in the past year among males under age 1: 1. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V1T5.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 132 people connected to this place who were alive in 1861, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Augustus Warren Baldwin	1776–1866	died here
Connell James Baldwin	1777–1861	died here
Andrew Mercer	1778–1871	died here
John Strachan	1778–1867	died here
George Ryerson	1779–1882	died here
Susan Mein	1783–1866	died here
Hugh Richardson	1784–1870	died here
Peter Brown	1784–1863	died here
Caleb Hopkins	1785–1880	died here
Thomas Allen Stayner	1788–1868	died here
Robert Burns	1789–1869	died here
Walter O'Hara	1789–1874	died here
Henry John Boulton	1790–1870	died here
John Doel	1790–1871	died here
William Gooderham	1790–1881	died here
Archibald McLean	1791–1865	died here
James Richardson	1791–1875	died here
Sir John Beverley Robinson	1791–1863	died here
George Gurnett	1792–1861	died here
Thomas Fisher	1792–1874	died here
Thomas Gibbs Ridout	1792–1861	died here
George Coventry	1793–1870	died here
James G. (James Grant) Chewett	1793–1862	died here
Robert Stanton	1794–1866	died here
William Hincks	1794–1871	died here
John Ellis	1795–1877	died here
Thomas Helliwell	1795–1862	died here
Thomas Mercer Jones	1795–1868	died here
William Lyon Mackenzie	1795–1861	died here
William Benjamin Robinson	1797–1873	died here
William Ryerson	1797–1872	died here
Andrew Norton Buell	1798–1880	died here
James Scott Howard	1798–1866	died here
Rowland Burr	1798–1865	died here
William Botsford Jarvis	1799–1864	died here
A. N. (Alexander Neil) Bethune	1800–1879	died here
Robert Cooney	1800–1870	died here
William Rees	1800–1874	died here
Anson Green	1801–1879	died here
George Monro	1801–1878	died here
John Elmsley	1801–1863	died here
John Roaf	1801–1862	died here
William Cawthra	1801–1880	died here
William Henry Draper	1801–1877	died here
Wilson Ruffin Abbott	1801–1876	died here
Donald Bethune	1802–1869	died here
George Anthony Barber	1802–1874	died here
James Lesslie	1802–1885	died here
Joseph Stinson	1802–1862	died here
Samuel Bealey Harrison	1802–1867	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
Thomas Ford Caldicott	1803–1869	died here
Thomas Thompson	1803–1868	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
James Christie Palmer Esten	1805–1864	died here
Robert Easton Burns	1805–1863	died here
Thomas Jaffray Robertson	1805–1866	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
James McGill Strachan	1808–1870	died here
John Taylor	1809–1871	died here
Joseph Davis Ridout	1809–1884	died here
Robert Clow Todd	1809–1866	died here
Thomas Dick	1809–1874	died here
W. B. (William Benjamin) Wells	1809–1881	died here
William Hume Blake	1809–1870	died here
Benjamin Lyman	1810–1878	died here
Edward Mulberry Hodder	1810–1878	died here
George Skeffington Connor	1810–1863	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
Robert Spence	1811–1868	died here
George Duggan	1812–1876	died here
James Porter	1812–1874	died here
John George Bowes	1812–1864	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
Henry Eccles	1817–1863	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
Philip Michael Matthew Scott VanKoughnet	1822–1869	died here
Maria Bunning	1824–1868	died here
Thomas Nepean Molesworth	1824–1879	died here
D'Arcy Boulton	1825–1875	died here
Daniel Morrison	1826–1870	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

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON105012 — 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 1861 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 (1861 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/yorkville-village-on105012-1861/.