Bigsby Island, Ontario (1921 census)

Name: Bigsby Island (1921)
Address: Ontario, CA

Bigsby Island was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1921 Census of Canada with a population of 23. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.086°N, 94.544°W.

Population

In 1921, Bigsby Island had a population of 23: 11 male and 12 female residents.

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Earlier boundary forms

In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Bigsby Island, Dewart, Morson & Tovell, 1911 (0.8% share).

Full census record, 1921

The 1921 census recorded 8 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 1 category.

Population & families (1921). This community's record includes 23 total population, 12 females in the population, 11 females born in Canada, 11 males in the population, 7 males born in Canada, 3 males born outside the British Empire, 1 females born in the British Empire (excluding Canada), 1 males born in the British Empire (excluding Canada). (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T16.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON141004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON141004 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1921 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "Bigsby Island, Ontario (1921 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/bigsby-island-on141004-1921/.