Coast of main land, British Columbia (1881–1881)

Name: Coast of main land
Address: British Columbia, CA

Coast of main land was a census subdivision in British Columbia, recorded in 1 census between 1881 and 1881.

Historical lineage

Ancestor places

split off from NO DATA in 1881

Descendant places

merged into New Westminster in 1891

Population trajectory across census years

Census year	Population	Page
1881	6,208	View 1881 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 9 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
Eda'nsa	1810–1894	born here
Chartres Brew	1815–1870	died here
Frederick Seymour	1820–1869	died here
Arthur Wellington Clah	1831–1916	born here
Allan MacDonald	1832–1901	born here
Charles Edenshaw	1839–1920	born here
Amos Russ	1849–1934	born here
Constance Lindsay Skinner	1877–1939	born here
Daniel Houstie	1880–1912	born here

Identifiers

Persistent place ID: PLACE_BC188004 — 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.