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Year: 1921  |  Province: Ontario  |  Wikidata: Q115262130

Maidstone, Ontario (1921 census)

Maidstone was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1921 Census of Canada with a population of 2,432. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q115262130. The administrative centroid was at approximately 42.243°N, 82.798°W.

Population

In 1921, Maidstone had a population of 2,432: 1,318 male and 1,114 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18511,167
18611,652
18712,055
18813,260
18913,127
19013,117
19112,788
19212,432

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1921

In the 1921 census, Maidstone shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1921

The 1921 census recorded 32 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1921). This community's record includes 2,432 total population, 1,318 males in the population, 1,172 males born in Canada, 1,114 females in the population, 980 females born in Canada, 113 males born outside the British Empire, 101 females born outside the British Empire, 33 females born in the British Empire (excluding Canada), 33 males born in the British Empire (excluding Canada). (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T16.)

Ethnic origin (1921). This community's record includes 709 persons of French origin, 546 persons of British origin (Irish), 525 persons of British origin (English), 284 persons of German origin, 179 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 31 persons of Dutch origin, 14 persons of other European origin, 7 persons of Belgian origin, 6 persons of Russian origin, 6 persons of Scandinavian origin, 2 persons of British origin (other), 1 persons of Polish origin. 122 persons recorded under the 1911/1921 official census category "Negro"; refers to people of African descent. Term is now considered offensive and is preserved here only as the historical source label. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T27.)

Religion (1921). This community's record includes 1,151 Roman Catholics, 612 Methodists, 381 Presbyterians, 127 Anglicans (Church of England), 101 Baptists, 19 Greek (Orthodox) Church adherents, 16 Mormons (Latter-day Saints), 9 adherents of other sects (residual category in 1921), 9 Lutherans, 7 Salvation Army adherents. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T38.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 66 people connected to this place who were alive in 1921, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

NameLifespanConnection
John McClary1829–1921born here
Sir William Ralph Meredith1840–1923born here
Elias Weber Bingeman Snider1842–1921born here
Seth Newhouse1842–1921born here
W. D. (William Dillon) Otter1843–1929born here
Mary Jane Baker1849–1934born here
Matthew McCauley1850–1930born here
Sir Henry Vincent Meredith1850–1929born here
Francis Huston Wallace1851–1930born here
Robert Brett1851–1929born here
Otto Julius Klotz1852–1923born here
Peter Bryce1853–1932born here
Sara Mickle1853–1930born here
Charles Kingsmill1855–1935born here
Edmund Ernest Sheppard1855–1924born here
John Campbell Ferrie Bown1856–1933born here
Catherine Trask1857–1925born here
Sir Adam Beck1857–1925born here
Thomas Daniel Green1857–1935born here
William James Thomson1857–1927born here
Edmund Marter Wood1858–1936born here
James Alexander MacDonald1858–1939born here
Wallace Nesbitt1858–1930born here
William James McKay1858–1922born here
Mary MacNeillb. 1859born here
James Bower1860–1921born here
John Douglas Fraser Drummond1860–1925born here
John Taylor Fotheringham1860–1940born here
Perry E. Doolittle1861–1933born here
Sara Jeannette Duncan1861–1922born here
Sir Clifford Sifton1861–1929born here
Archibald MacMechan1862–1933born here
Carl Ahrens1862–1936born here
Sarah Alice Rowell1862–1930born here
George Harcourt1863–1940born here
Rachel Jeffrey Coutts1863–1940born here
Annie Gardner Barr1864–1921born here
Daniel Salmon Hamilton1864–1929born here
Edward Bayly1865–1934born here
John Henderson Lamont1865–1936born here
John Joseph Mackenzie1865–1922born here
William Charles Sutherland1865–1940born here
Walter Cameron Nichol1866–1928born here
William Lash Miller1866–1940born here
Newton Wesley Rowell1867–1941born here
Sir Edward Whipple Bancroft Morrison1867–1925born here
Emma Priscilla Scott1868–1940born here
Margaret Eleanor Theodora Addison1868–1940born here
Alfred Davis Fidler1869–1927born here
Jean Isabelle Dow1870–1927born here
Thomas Llewellyn Metcalfe1870–1922born here
Isabel Johnstone1872–1923born here
Maitland Stewart McCarthy1872–1930born here
Deskaheh1873–1925born here
Robert Francis Forster1873–1929born here
David Alexander Stewart1874–1937born here
Isabel Ecclestone Mackay1875–1928born here
Sir Arthur Currie1875–1933born here
Franklin Wellington Wegenast1876–1942born here
Harriet Brooks1876–1933born here
Robert Walter Paterson1876–1936born here
Maud Leonora Menten1879–1960born here
Winona Flett1884–1922born here
Mitchell Frederick Hepburn1896–1953born here
John Raymond Knister1899–1932born here
Howard William Morenz1902–1937born here

Identifiers

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). "Maidstone, Ontario (1921 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/maidstone-on110006-1921/.