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Province: Ontario  |  Years recorded: 1861–1881  |  Wikidata: Q115134672

Strathroy, Village, Ontario (1861–1881)

Strathroy, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in 3 censuses between 1861 and 1881. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q115134672, 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 751 in 1861 to 3,817 in 1881).

Population trajectory across census years

Census yearPopulationPage
1861751View 1861 detail →
18713,232View 1871 detail →
18813,817View 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 2 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.

NameLifespanConnection
William Craddock Bettridge1791–1879died here
Francis Henry Keefer1860–1928born here

Identifiers

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.