Guelph, City—Cité, Ontario (1851–1921)

Name: Guelph, City—Cité
Address: Ontario, CA

Guelph, City—Cité was a city in Ontario, recorded in 8 censuses between 1851 and 1921. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q504114, so it can be queried as a single entity even when its boundaries or census name varied across years. Population grew substantially across the period (from 1,860 in 1851 to 18,128 in 1921).

Population trajectory across census years

Census year	Population	Page
1851	1,860	View 1851 detail →
1861	5,076	View 1861 detail →
1871	6,878	View 1871 detail →
1881	9,890	View 1881 detail →
1891	10,537	View 1891 detail →
1901	11,496	View 1901 detail →
1911	15,175	View 1911 detail →
1921	18,128	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 23 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
Heinrich Wilhelm Peterson	1793–1859	died here
James Gay	1810–1891	died here
Peter Gow	1818–1886	died here
William Fletcher Clarke	1824–1902	died here
Charles Raymond	1826–1904	died here
John Harvie	1833–1917	died here
John Belmer Armstrong	1838–1892	died here
George Sleeman	1841–1926	died here
David Ross McCord	1844–1930	died here
Stephen Lett	1847–1905	died here
Lewis Henry Drummond	1848–1929	died here
William Johnston	1848–1885	died here
Jeffry Hall Brock	1850–1915	born here
Thomas Goldie	1850–1892	died here
Charles Kingsmill	1855–1935	born here
William James Thomson	1857–1927	born here
Dyce Willcocks Saunders	1862–1930	born here
Robert Rogers	1863–1936	died here
Lydia Elizabeth Hall	1864–1916	died here
Thomas Walter Scott	1867–1938	died here
John McCrae	1872–1918	born here
Robert Walter Paterson	1876–1936	born here
Lionel Herbert Clarke	d. 1921	born here

Identifiers

Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON152013 — assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap
Wikidata: Q504114
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guelph
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guelph

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.