Toronto City (1851), Ontario
Toronto City (1851) was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1851 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. Historic 19th/early-20th-century census City of Toronto; boundaries differ from modern Toronto (Q172)
Population trajectory across census years
Aggregate population summed from constituent Census Subdivisions in this Census Division each year. Where the published 1851–1921 census volumes report a CD-level total, the figures should match within rounding; for cities split into wards, the per-CSD sum may diverge from the published CD aggregate.
| Year | Population | CSDs |
|---|---|---|
| 1851 | 30,775 | 10 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1851 census
- Gaol (pop 92)
- General Dispensary and & Lying-in-Hospital (pop 12)
- Hospital (pop 71)
- House of Industry (pop 58)
- Lunatic Asylum (pop 351)
- Lying-in-Hospital (pop 15)
- Maternity Hospital (pop 4)
- Toronto University (pop 39)
- Toronto, City wd (pop 30,041)
- Upper Canada College (pop 92)
Lineage
Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.
- Merged into Toronto in 1861.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_Toronto_City
Sources
Census Division boundaries derived from the
Canadian Peoples / TCP
1851–1921 Census Subdivision boundary files (NAME_CD_<year> attributes,
hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan).
Constituent-CSD memberships use the P10_falls_within CIDOC-CRM relationships
emitted by the spatial CIDOC builder. Wikidata grounding for Census Divisions performed via the
HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph
project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology
page for the full data pipeline.