Sault Ste. Marie, C, Ontario (1861–1921)

Name: Sault Ste. Marie, C
Address: Ontario, CA

Sault Ste. Marie, C was a city in Ontario, recorded in 7 censuses between 1861 and 1921. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q463165, 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 898 in 1861 to 21,092 in 1921).

Historical lineage

Ancestor places

split off from NO DATA in 1861
incorporates territory from Algoma, District in 1871

Descendant places

later split into Korah in 1881
later split into Vankoughnet in 1881
later split into Steelton t-v in 1911
later split into Sault Ste. Marie, E in 1891
later split into Sault Ste. Marie, W-O in 1891
later split into Dennis in 1881
later split into Pic in 1871
later split into Bruce Mines in 1871
later split into Michipicoten in 1871
later split into Kaministikuia in 1871
later split into St. Ignace in 1871
later split into Batchewaning in 1871
later split into Mississaga in 1871
later split into Manitoulin, Centre in 1871
later split into Manitoulin, W-O in 1871
later split into Wookwamakong in 1871
later split into Killarney in 1871
later split into Nipigon in 1871
later split into Spanish River in 1871
later split into Garden River in 1881

Population trajectory across census years

Census year	Population	Page
1861	898	View 1861 detail →
1871	871	View 1871 detail →
1881	780	View 1881 detail →
1891	991	View 1891 detail →
1901	7,169	View 1901 detail →
1911	10,984	View 1911 detail →
1921	21,092	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 16 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
Jean-Baptiste Assiginack	1768–1866	died here
Peguis	1774–1864	born here
Elizabeth Dart	1792–1857	died here
John Prince	1796–1870	died here
Robert McVicar	1798–1864	died here
George Ironside	1800–1863	died here
Ponekeosh	1810–1891	born here
Frederick William Ermatinger	1811–1869	born here
Letitia Mactavish Hargrave	1813–1854	died here
Nicolas-Joseph Frémiot	1818–1854	died here
Francis Assikinack	1824–1863	born and died here
Robert Adam Lyon	1829–1901	died here
James Laurence Cotter	1839–1889	died here
George Thorneloe	1848–1935	died here
Donald McGillivray	1857–1900	died here
John George Shearer	1859–1925	born here

Identifiers

Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON102108 — assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap
Wikidata: Q463165
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sault_Ste._Marie,_Ontario
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sault-Sainte-Marie_(Ontario)

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.