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Year: 1921  |  Province: Ontario

St. Thomas, City—Cité, Ontario (1921 census)

St. Thomas, City—Cité was a city in Ontario, recorded in the 1921 Census of Canada with a population of 16,026. The administrative centroid was at approximately 42.781°N, 81.203°W.

Population

In 1921, St. Thomas, City—Cité had a population of 16,026: 7,839 male and 8,187 female residents. Population density was 15976.8 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18511,274
18611,631
18712,197
18818,367
189110,366
190111,485
191114,054
192116,026

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, St. Thomas, City—Cité shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1921

The 1921 census recorded 53 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 2 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (3 variables)
VariableValue
POP F8,187
POP M7,839
POP TOT16,026
Other recorded variables (50 variables)
VariableValue
ADVENTISTS6
ANGLICANS3,939
ASIA CHINESE AND JAPANESE29
ASIA OTHER1
ASIA SYRIAN42
BAPTISTS1,696
BRETHREN5
BRIT BORN F1,632
BRIT BORN M1,709
BRIT ENG9,785
BRIT IRISH2,201
BRIT OTHER77
BRIT SCOTCH2,735
CAN BORN F6,224
CAN BORN M5,756
CHRISTIANS60
CONGREGATIONALISTS8
CSD TYPEC
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST229
EASTERN RELIGIONS2
EUR AUSTRIAN18
EUR BELGIAN14
EUR DUTCH273
EUR FRENCH178
EUR GERMAN337
EUR GREEK6
EUR HEBREW75
EUR ITALIAN43
EUR OTHER19
EUR POLISH21
EUR RUSSIAN7
EUR SCANDINAVIAN30
EUR UKRAINIAN1
EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION29
FOREIGN BORN F331
FOREIGN BORN M374
GREEK CHURCH51
INDIAN67
JEWS74
LUTHERANS11
MENNONITES5
METHODISTS4,524
MORMONS120
NEGRO21
OTHER SECTS401
PRESBYTERIANS3,195
PROTESTANTS4
ROMAN CATHOLICS1,323
SALVATION ARMY297
UNSPECIFIED46

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). "St. Thomas, City—Cité, Ontario (1921 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/st-thomas-city-cit-on109008-1921/.