St. John City, Dukes ward-quartier, New Brunswick (1871–1911)
St. John City, Dukes ward-quartier was a census subdivision in New Brunswick, recorded in 5 censuses between 1871 and 1911. Population declined across the period (from 4,253 in 1871 to 2,879 in 1911).
Historical lineage
Ancestor places
- split off from NO DATA in 1871
Descendant places
- merged into St. John, C in 1921
Population trajectory across census years
| Census year | Population | Page |
|---|---|---|
| 1871 | 4,253 | View 1871 detail → |
| 1881 | 2,967 | View 1881 detail → |
| 1891 | 3,055 | View 1891 detail → |
| 1901 | 3,048 | View 1901 detail → |
| 1911 | 2,879 | View 1911 detail → |
Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).
People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 53 people connected to this place across the 1851–1921 period, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry; the connection tag indicates whether the documented event was a birth, death, or burial at this place.
| Name | Lifespan | Connection |
|---|---|---|
| John Hooper | 1791–1869 | died here |
| W. B. (William Boyd) Kinnear | 1796–1868 | died here |
| John Venner Thurgar | 1797–1880 | died here |
| Joseph (Canadian potter White | 1799–1870 | died here |
| Edmund Hillyer Duval | 1805–1879 | died here |
| Robert Leonard Hazen | 1808–1874 | died here |
| Jacob Valentine Troop | 1809–1881 | died here |
| Robert J. Patterson | 1809–1884 | died here |
| Thomas Hilyard | 1810–1873 | died here |
| Alexander Mcleod Seely | 1812–1882 | died here |
| William Bayard | 1814–1907 | died here |
| William Henry Steeves | 1814–1873 | died here |
| Honoria Conway | 1815–1892 | died here |
| John Waterbury Cudlip | 1815–1885 | died here |
| Robert Shives | 1815–1879 | died here |
| John McMillan | 1816–1886 | died here |
| James Bennet | 1817–1901 | died here |
| Joseph Wilson Lawrence | 1818–1892 | died here |
| Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley | 1818–1896 | died here |
| Thomas Wilder Daniel | 1818–1892 | died here |
| John Sweeny | 1821–1901 | died here |
| Sylvester Zobieski Earle | 1822–1888 | died here |
| William Elder | 1822–1883 | died here |
| Thomas Rosenell Jones | 1825–1901 | died here |
| William Franklin Bunting | 1825–1897 | died here |
| Charles Henry Fairweather | 1826–1894 | died here |
| John Boyd | 1826–1893 | died here |
| William Wallace Turnbull | 1828–1899 | died here |
| Frances Elizabeth Murray | 1831–1901 | died here |
| George Adkin Hartley | 1831–1903 | died here |
| Martha Hamm Lewis | 1831–1892 | died here |
| William Henry Tuck | 1831–1913 | died here |
| John McMillan | 1833–1905 | died here |
| Alice Catharine Davis | 1834–1915 | died here |
| Edward Willis | 1835–1891 | died here |
| J. V. (John Valentine) Ellis | 1835–1913 | died here |
| John Hegan Parks | 1836–1903 | died here |
| James Hendricks McAvity | 1838–1910 | died here |
| Howard Douglas Troop | 1839–1912 | died here |
| John Elisha Peck Hopper | 1841–1895 | died here |
| James Hannay | 1842–1910 | died here |
| G. U. (George Upham) Hay | 1843–1913 | died here |
| Isaac Allen Jack | 1843–1903 | died here |
| Israël Landry | 1843–1910 | died here |
| Louisa Anne Donald | 1844–1915 | died here |
| Thomas Stockwell Simms | 1845–1908 | died here |
| Abraham Beverley Walker | 1851–1909 | died here |
| Emma Sophia Skinner | 1852–1914 | died here |
| George Valentine McInerney | 1857–1908 | died here |
| Loretta Leonard Shaw | 1872–1940 | born here |
| James Edmund Tighe | 1878–1937 | born here |
| James Leonard Sugrue | 1883–1930 | born here |
| Charles Gorman | 1897–1940 | born here |
Identifiers
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NB032007— assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap - Wikidata: not yet grounded.
Sources
Census tabulations from the 1851–1921 Census of Canada series, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project. Each year's detail page (linked above) cites the specific source table.