Amherstburg, T-V, Ontario (1851–1921)

Name: Amherstburg, T-V
Address: Ontario, CA

Amherstburg, T-V was a town in Ontario, recorded in 8 censuses between 1851 and 1921. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q385335, so it can be queried as a single entity even when its boundaries or census name varied across years.

Population trajectory across census years

Census year	Population	Page
1851	1,880	View 1851 detail →
1861	2,360	View 1861 detail →
1871	1,936	View 1871 detail →
1881	2,672	View 1881 detail →
1891	2,279	View 1891 detail →
1901	2,222	View 1901 detail →
1911	2,560	View 1911 detail →
1921	2,769	View 1921 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
George Benson Hall	1810–1876	born here
Edward Henry Dewar	1812–1862	born here
Achille Morin	1815–1898	died here
Henry McKenney	1826–1886	born here
Sir John Christian Schultz	1840–1896	born here
Joseph Octave Reaume	1856–1933	born here
Eugene Marius Antoine Coste	1859–1940	born here
James Duncan McGregor	1860–1935	born here

Identifiers

Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON110017 — assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap
Wikidata: Q385335
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherstburg
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherstburg

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.