North, British Columbia (1881–1881)

Name: North
Address: British Columbia, CA

North 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

later split into New Westminster, City—Cité in 1891
later split into Vancouver, City—Cité in 1891
merged into New Westminster in 1891

Population trajectory across census years

Census year	Population	Page
1881	4,003	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 8 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
William Eppes Cormack	1796–1868	died here
William Irving	1816–1872	died here
Thomas McMicking	1829–1866	died here
John Deighton	1830–1875	died here
Arthur Thomas Bushby	1835–1875	died here
Su-á-pu-luck	1854–1910	born here
Allan McLean	1855–1881	died here
Richard McBride Canadian politician (1870-1917)	1870–1917	born here

Identifiers

Persistent place ID: PLACE_BC188002 — 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.