York (1921), Ontario

York (1921) was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1921 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. This CD is grounded to Wikidata Q70460110.

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.

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1921 census

• Aurora, T-V wd (pop 2,307)
• Etobicoke wd (pop 10,445)
• Georgina wd (pop 1,537)
• Gwillimbury E wd (pop 3,140)
• Gwillimbury N (pop 1,630)
• Holland Landing, VL wd (pop 376)
• King wd (pop 5,149)
• Leaside, T-V wd (pop 325)
• Markham (pop 5,267)
• Markham, VL wd (pop 1,012)
• Mimico, T-V wd (pop 3,751)
• New Toronto, T-V wd (pop 2,669)
• Newmarket, T-V wd (pop 3,626)
• Richmond Hill, VL wd (pop 1,055)
• Scarborough wd (pop 11,746)
• Stouffville, VL (pop 1,053)
• Sutton, VL wd (pop 789)
• Toronto, C wd (pop 521,893)
• Vaughan wd (pop 5,080)
• Weston, T-V (pop 3,166)
• Whitchurch (pop 3,529)
• Woodbridge, VL wd (pop 672)
• York (pop 57,448)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

• Re-formed from Toronto Centre, Toronto East (1911), Toronto North, Toronto South, Toronto West (1911), York Centre, York North, York South in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_York_1921
• Wikidata: Q70460110

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.