Yorkville, Village, Ontario (1881 census)

Name: Yorkville, Village (1881)
Address: Ontario, CA

Yorkville, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 4,825. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q1022897. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.676°N, 79.387°W.

Population

In 1881, Yorkville, Village had a population of 4,825: 2,310 male and 2,515 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 contained Yorkville, Village, 1871 (58.5% share).

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD became part of Toronto, St. Paul & St. Mathew’s, Ward—Quartier, 1891 (32.4% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Yorkville, Village shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 29 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 4,825 total population, 2,515 females, 2,310 males, 1,630 married persons, 965 families, 824 married females, 806 married males, 224 widowed persons, 184 widowed females, 40 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 2,971 single persons under 18, 1,507 single females under 18, 1,464 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 941 inhabited houses, 941 occupied houses, 75 uninhabited houses, 30 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 2,185 bushels of other root crops, 2,000 bushels of corn, 1,800 bushels of oats, 1,370 bushels of barley, 1,270 bushels of potatoes, 430 bushels of winter wheat, 415 bushels of spring wheat, 312 bushels of peas and beans, 172 tons of hay, 111 acres of hay crops, 53 acres of wheat, 12 acres of potatoes. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 43 people connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
George Ryerson	1779–1882	died here
William Gooderham	1790–1881	died here
James Lesslie	1802–1885	died here
Egerton Ryerson	1803–1882	died here
Frederick Chase Capreol	1803–1886	died here
Susanna Strickland	1803–1885	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
Peter Paterson	1807–1883	died here
Henry James Grasett	1808–1882	died here
Joseph Davis Ridout	1809–1884	died here
W. B. (William Benjamin) Wells	1809–1881	died here
Samuel Thompson	1810–1886	died here
Alexander Somerville	1811–1885	died here
William Smith Durie	1813–1885	died here
Samuel Dwight Rice	1815–1884	died here
George Templeman Kingston	1816–1886	died here
Joseph Curran Morrison	1816–1885	died here
Frederick Fauquier	1817–1881	died here
James Gooderham Worts	1818–1882	died here
John Smith	1819–1881	died here
Frederic William Cumberland	1820–1881	died here
Angus Morrison	1822–1882	died here
Charles Legge	1829–1881	died here
Abram William Lauder	1834–1884	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
קלרה בראט מרטין	1874–1923	born here
Helen McNicoll	1879–1915	born here

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 4,825 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: ON135004 — 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 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). "Yorkville, Village, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/yorkville-village-on135004-1881/.