Richmond, British Columbia (1901–1901)

Name: Richmond
Address: British Columbia, CA

Richmond was a census subdivision in British Columbia, recorded in 1 census between 1901 and 1901.

Historical lineage

Ancestor places

split off from New Westminster in 1901

Descendant places

later split into Point Grey in 1911
later split into Lot 301, Vancouver c pt in 1911
later split into Hastings townsite, Vancouver c pt in 1911
later split into Vancouver S in 1911
later split into Richmond (pt) in 1911

Population trajectory across census years

Census year	Population	Page
1901	4,802	View 1901 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 7 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
Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn	1824–1902	died here
David Oppenheimer	1834–1897	died here
James Maria McGuckin	1835–1903	died here
Henry Valentine Edmonds	1837–1897	died here
David Howard Harrison	1843–1905	died here
George Ritchie Maxwell	1857–1902	died here
Frank Rogers	1878–1903	died here

Identifiers

Persistent place ID: PLACE_BC002005 — 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.