York West, Ontario
York West 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 (west 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.
| Year | Population | CSDs |
|---|---|---|
| 1871 | 16,260 | 3 |
| 1881 | 18,884 | 6 |
| 1891 | 41,857 | 8 |
| 1901 | 53,741 | 12 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1871 census
1881 census
- Brockton, Village wd (pop 786)
- Etobicoke wd (pop 2,976)
- Parkdale, Village wd (pop 1,170)
- Richmond Hill, VL wd (pop 867)
- Vaughan wd (pop 6,828)
- York W-O (pop 6,257)
1891 census
- Etobicoke wd (pop 4,557)
- Richmond Hill, VL wd (pop 743)
- Toronto, St. Alban's, Ward—Quartier (pop 7,381)
- Toronto, St. Mark’s, Ward—Quartier (pop 5,325)
- Vaughan wd (pop 5,292)
- Weston, Village (pop 1,194)
- Woodbridge, VL wd (pop 762)
- York W-O (pop 16,603)
1901 census
- Etobicoke wd (pop 4,413)
- North Toronto (part), Town—Ville (pop 675)
- Richmond Hill, VL wd (pop 629)
- Toronto Junction, Town—Ville wd (pop 6,091)
- Toronto, Ward—Quartier 3 (part) (pop 123)
- Toronto, Ward—Quartier 4 (part) (pop 3,744)
- Toronto, Ward—Quartier 5 (part) (pop 4,338)
- Toronto, Ward—Quartier 6 (part) (pop 21,296)
- Vaughan wd (pop 4,586)
- Weston, Village (pop 1,083)
- Woodbridge, VL wd (pop 604)
- York (part) (pop 6,159)
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 West (1911), York South in 1911.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_York_West
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.