Niagara, Township, Ontario (1851–1881)

Name: Niagara, Township
Address: Ontario, CA

Niagara, Township was a township in Ontario, recorded in 4 censuses between 1851 and 1881. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q448372, 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	2,250	View 1851 detail →
1861	2,400	View 1861 detail →
1871	2,093	View 1871 detail →
1881	2,004	View 1881 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 28 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
Charles Albert Berczy	1794–1858	born here
John Richardson	1796–1852	born here
Peter Jones [Kahkewaquonaby]	1802–1856	born here
Joshua Gwillen Doan	b. 1811	born here
Nelson Burns	1834–1904	born here
Alexander McMicken	1837–1916	born here
Charles J. S. (Charles James Stewart) Bethune	1838–1932	born here
Janet Carnochan	1839–1926	born here
Margaret Vallance	1840–1922	born here
Richard Amos Ball	1845–1925	born here
James Walker	1846–1936	born here
Linus Woolverton	1846–1914	born here
Sara Calder	1846–1914	born here
Sir William Glenholme Falconbridge	1846–1920	born here
Edith Sarah Louisa Boulton	1847–1912	born here
Mary Agnes Snively	1847–1933	born here
John Kelly Barrett	1850–1938	born here
James Elgin Wetherell	1851–1940	born here
John Bolingbroke Sparrow	1852–1914	born here
William Hamilton Merritt	1855–1918	born here
Sir John Strathearn Hendrie	1857–1923	born here
Frank Hamilton Mewburn	1858–1929	born here
Marion Elizabeth Stinson	1859–1919	born here
Francis Joseph Nelson	1860–1932	born here
William James Withrow	1868–1917	born here
Andrew Thorburn Thompson	1870–1939	born here
Duncan Sayre MacInnes	1870–1918	born here
Norton Hervey Crow	1878–1929	born here

Identifiers

Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON143001_1851 — assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap
Wikidata: Q448372
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara-on-the-Lake
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara-on-the-Lake

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.