York East, Ontario

York East was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1871–1901 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. ON federal electoral subdivision (east of York County); no separate Wikidata entity

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

1871 census

• Markham wd (pop 8,152)
• Scarborough wd (pop 4,615)
• York, E (pop 4,390)
• Yorkville, Village wd (pop 2,203)

1881 census

• Markham wd (pop 6,375)
• Markham, Village wd (pop 954)
• Scarborough wd (pop 4,208)
• Stouffville, Village (pop 459)
• York E (pop 6,491)
• Yorkville, Village wd (pop 4,825)

1891 census

• Markham (pop 5,681)
• Markham, Village wd (pop 1,100)
• Scarborough wd (pop 4,028)
• Toronto, St. Paul & St. Mathew’s, Ward—Quartier (pop 17,685)
• York E (pop 6,654)

1901 census

• East Toronto, Village (pop 1,564)
• Markham (pop 5,378)
• Markham, Village wd (pop 967)
• North Toronto (part), Town—Ville (pop 1,177)
• Scarborough wd (pop 3,845)
• Toronto, Ward—Quartier 1 (part) (pop 10,465)
• Toronto, Ward—Quartier 2 (part) (pop 3,138)
• Toronto, Ward—Quartier 3 (part) (pop 7,063)
• Toronto, Ward—Quartier 4 (part) (pop 1,775)
• York (part) (pop 5,033)

Lineage

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

• Split off from York (1851–1861) in 1871.
• Merged into York Centre in 1911.
• Split into Toronto East (1911), Toronto North in 1911.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_York_East

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.