Foster, Ontario (1921 census)

Name: Foster (1921)
Address: Ontario, CA

Foster was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1921 Census of Canada with a population of 44. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q115261493. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.235°N, 81.628°W.

Population

In 1921, Foster had a population of 44: 28 male and 16 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 Foster, Lome, Louise & Nairn, 1911 (25.8% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1921

In the 1921 census, Foster shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1921

The 1921 census recorded 7 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 1 category.

Population & families (1921). This community's record includes 44 total population, 28 males in the population, 26 males born in Canada, 16 females in the population, 15 females born in Canada, 2 males born outside the British Empire, 1 females born outside the British Empire. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T16.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON146042 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON146042 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q115261493

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). "Foster, Ontario (1921 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/foster-on146042-1921/.