Toronto, C, Ontario (1851 census)

Name: Toronto, C (1851)
Address: Ontario, CA

Toronto, C was a city in Ontario, recorded in the 1851 Census of Canada with a population of 30,041. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q172. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.654°N, 79.394°W.

Population

In 1851, Toronto, C had a population of 30,041: 14,777 male and 15,264 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1851	30,041
1921	521,893

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

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD contained Toronto, St. George’s, Ward—Quartier, 1861 (16.4% of this CSD's polygon).
In a later year, this CSD contained Toronto, Andrew’s, Ward—Quartier, 1861 (8.3% of this CSD's polygon).
In a later year, this CSD contained Toronto, St. John’s, Ward—Quartier, 1861 (6.8% of this CSD's polygon).
In a later year, this CSD contained Toronto, St. James' Ward—Quartier, 1861 (6.5% of this CSD's polygon).
In a later year, this CSD contained Toronto, St. David’s Ward—Quartier, 1861 (19.3% of this CSD's polygon).
In a later year, this CSD contained Toronto, St. Lawrence Ward—Quartier, 1861 (7.1% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1851

In the 1851 census, Toronto, C shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1851

The 1851 census recorded 149 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1851). This community's record includes 30,041 total population, 15,264 females, 14,777 males, Female members of the family who are present: 12,254, Male members of the family who are present: 11,973, 9,896 single males, 9,695 single females, 4,803 married females, 4,800 married males, 4,558 families, Females present who are not members of the family: 3,010, Males present who are not members of the family: 2,804, 2,374 males attending school, 1,848 females attending school, 766 widowed females, 520 female births, 489 male births, Male members of the family who are present: 333, Female members of the family who are absent: 222, 81 widowed males, 10 deaf and dumb males, 6 blind females, 6 blind males, 5 lunatic females, 5 lunatic males, 3 deaf and dumb females. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Age structure (1851). This community's record includes 1,928 females aged 5 to 10, 1,875 single females aged 15 to 20, 1,797 males aged 5 to 10, 1,770 married females aged 20 to 30, 1,705 single males aged 20 to 30, 1,700 single females aged 10 to 15, 1,677 married males aged 30 to 40, 1,645 married females aged 30 to 40, 1,641 single males aged 10 to 15, 1,641 single males aged 15 to 20, 1,396 single females aged 20 to 30, 1,169 married males aged 40 to 50, 1,168 married males aged 20 to 30, 853 married females aged 40 to 50, 569 males under age 1, 566 females under age 1, 528 married males aged 50 to 60, 494 males aged 3 to 4, 490 females aged 2 to 3, 486 females aged 1 to 2, 464 males aged 1 to 2, 442 single males aged 30 to 40, 434 males aged 2 to 3, 410 females aged 4 to 5, 401 males aged 4 to 5, 395 females age 3 to 4, 293 married females aged 50 to 60, 214 single females aged 30 to 40, 193 widowed females aged 30 to 40, 176 married males aged 60 to 70, 159 widowed females aged 50 to 60, 158 single males aged 40 to 50, 154 widowed females aged 40 to 50, 125 married females aged 15 to 20, 119 widowed females aged 60 to 70, 103 married females aged 60 to 70, 90 single females aged 40 to 50, 81 widowed females aged 20 to 30, 63 single females aged 50 to 60, 63 single males aged 50 to 60, 61 males of unknown age, 50 females of unknown age, 49 married males aged 70 to 80, 48 widowed females aged 70 to 80, 29 single females aged 60 to 70, 23 married males aged 15 to 20, 21 widowed males aged 40 to 50, 18 single males aged 60 to 70, 18 widowed males aged 30 to 40, 15 widowed males aged 50 to 60, 11 married females aged 70 to 80, 10 married males aged 80 to 90, 10 widowed females aged 80 to 90, 10 widowed males aged 60 to 70, 9 widowed males aged 70 to 80, 6 single males aged 70 to 80, 5 widowed males aged 20 to 30, 3 married females aged 80 to 90, 2 single males aged 80 to 90, 2 widowed females aged 90 to 100, 2 widowed males aged 80 to 90, 1 single females aged 70 to 80, 1 single females aged 80 to 90, 1 widowed males aged 90 to 100. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.) The 1851 enumerator also recorded 1 single females aged 90 to 100 — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Ethnic origin (1851). This community's record includes 9,177 persons originating in Ireland, 8,227 persons native to Canada, not of French origin, 4,257 persons originating in England or Wales, 1,851 persons originating in Scotland, 1,294 persons originating in the United States, 372 French Canadians, 361 persons originating in all other places, 277 male negroes or coloured persons, 249 female negroes or coloured persons, 108 persons originating in Germany or Holland. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T3.)

Manufacturing & industry (1851). This community's record includes 112 employees in foundries, 16 employees in breweries, 11 employees in grist mills, 6 employees in tanneries, 5 foundries, 5 foundries not reporting, 4 breweries, 4 breweries not reporting, 3 distilleries, 3 grist mills, 3 grist mills not reporting, 3 grist mills powered by steam, 1 tanneries, 1 tanneries not reporting. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

Deaths & mortality (1851). This community's record includes 442 total number of deaths, Deaths in the past year among males of all ages: 234, Deaths in the past year among females of all ages: 208, Deaths in the past year among males under age 1: 74, Deaths in the past year among females under age 1: 65, Deaths in the past year among males of unknown age: 31, Deaths in the past year among females of unknown age: 27, Deaths in the past year among males aged 1 to 2: 27, Deaths in the past year among females aged 1 to 2: 25, Deaths in the past year among males aged 30 to 40: 19, Deaths in the past year among females aged 30 to 40: 15, Deaths in the past year among males aged 20 to 30: 15, Deaths in the past year among males aged 40 to 50: 13, Deaths in the past year among females aged 2 to 3: 11, Deaths in the past year among females aged 20 to 30: 11, Deaths in the past year among females aged 15 to 20: 10, Deaths in the past year among males aged 4 to 5: 10, Deaths in the past year among females aged 4 to 5: 8, Deaths in the past year among males age 3 to 4: 8, Deaths in the past year among males aged 10 to 15: 8, Deaths in the past year among females aged 50 to 60: 7, Deaths in the past year among females aged 60 to 70: 7, Deaths in the past year among males aged 50 to 60: 7, Deaths in the past year among males aged 2 to 3: 6, Deaths in the past year among males aged 60 to 70: 6, Deaths in the past year among females aged 10 to 15: 5, Deaths in the past year among females aged 3 to 4: 5, Deaths in the past year among females aged 40 to 50: 4, Deaths in the past year among females aged 70 to 80: 4, Deaths in the past year among males aged 15 to 20: 4, Deaths in the past year among males aged 5 to 10: 4, Deaths in the past year among females aged 80 to 90: 3, Deaths in the past year among females aged 5 to 10: 2, Deaths in the past year among males aged 70 to 80: 1. (Source: 1851 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 237 people connected to this place who were alive in 1851, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
William Allan	1770–1853	died here
John Strachan	1778–1867	died here
Caleb Hopkins	1785–1880	died here
John Ewart	1788–1856	died here
Henry John Boulton	1790–1870	died here
William Gooderham	1790–1881	died here
Archibald McLean	1791–1865	died here
Sir John Beverley Robinson	1791–1863	died here
James G. (James Grant) Chewett	1793–1862	died here
William Hincks	1794–1871	died here
Thomas Mercer Jones	1795–1868	died here
William Lyon Mackenzie	1795–1861	died here
John McIntosh	1796–1853	died here
Robert Sympson Jameson	1796–1854	died here
Thomas David Morrison	1796–1856	died here
William Benjamin Robinson	1797–1873	died here
James Beaty	1798–1892	died here
William Botsford Jarvis	1799–1864	died here
William Thomas	1799–1860	died here
George Monro	1801–1878	died here
John Elmsley	1801–1863	died here
John Roaf	1801–1862	died here
William Henry Draper	1801–1877	died here
Wilson Ruffin Abbott	1801–1876	died here
Robert Baldwin Sullivan	1802–1853	died here
Samuel Bealey Harrison	1802–1867	died here
Egerton Ryerson	1803–1882	died here
Francis Henry Medcalf	1803–1880	died here
John George Howard	1803–1890	died here
Ogle Robert Gowan	1803–1876	died here
Susanna Strickland	1803–1885	died here
William Stewart	1803–1856	died here
Anne Langton	1804–1893	died here
John McMurrich	1804–1883	died here
Robert Baldwin	1804–1858	born and died here
James Christie Palmer Esten	1805–1864	died here
Joseph Workman	1805–1894	died here
Robert Easton Burns	1805–1863	died here
William Gamble	1805–1881	died here
George Theodore Berthon	1806–1892	died here
John Godfrey Spragge	1806–1884	died here
the Reverend John McCaul	1807–1887	died here
William Cayley	1807–1890	died here
Evan MacColl	1808–1898	died here
James McGill Strachan	1808–1870	died here
Robert Hay	1808–1890	died here
Robert Clow Todd	1809–1866	died here
W. B. (William Benjamin) Wells	1809–1881	died here
William Hume Blake	1809–1870	died here
Paul Kane	1810–1871	died here
Robert Spence	1811–1868	died here
Sir William Pearce Howland	1811–1907	died here
William McMaster	1811–1887	died here
W.H. (William Henry) Boulton	1812–1874	died here
John Allanson	1813–1853	died here
Sir C. S. (Casimir Stanislaus) Gzowski	1813–1898	died here
Sir Adam Wilson	1814–1891	died here
Daniel Wilson	1816–1892	died here
George Taylor Denison II	1816–1873	born here
George Templeman Kingston	1816–1886	died here
John Joseph Lynch	1816–1888	died here
Sir John Hawkins Hagarty	1816–1900	died here
Edmund Allen Meredith	1817–1899	died here
J. Hillyard Cameron	1817–1876	died here
John Willoughby Crawford	1817–1875	died here
Theodor August Heintzman	1817–1899	died here
Alexander Mortimer Smith	1818–1895	died here
Catherine Seaton Skirving	1818–1897	died here
George Brown	1818–1880	died here
James Gooderham Worts	1818–1882	died here
John Ross	1818–1871	died here
Alexander Henderson Manning	1819–1903	died here
Ferdinand Griebel	1819–1858	died here
Samuel Bickerton Harman	1819–1892	died here
Charles Lindsey	1820–1908	died here
Edward Borron	1820–1915	died here
Frederic William Cumberland	1820–1881	died here
John Beverley Robinson	1820–1896	died here
Kivas Tully	1820–1905	died here
Sir Oliver Mowat	1820–1903	died here
suora Teresa Dease	1820–1889	died here
Alexander Mackenzie	1822–1892	died here
Angus Morrison	1822–1882	died here
Cameron	1822–1887	died here
Sir Alexander Campbell	1822–1892	died here
Sir Frank Smith	1822–1901	died here
Timothy Warren Anglin	1822–1896	died here
David Breakenridge Read	1823–1904	died here
Ephraim Jones Parke	1823–1899	born here
Goldwin Smith	1823–1910	died here
Hart Almerrin Massey	1823–1896	died here
James Cox Aikins, mla	1823–1904	died here
Mary Electa Adams	1823–1898	died here
Sir Æmilius Irving	1823–1913	died here
John MacDonald	1824–1890	died here
D'Arcy Boulton	1825–1875	born and died here
Francesco Glionna	1825–1918	died here
Alexander Morris	1826–1889	died here
Bernard Rogan Ross	1827–1874	died here
Eugene O'Keefe	1827–1913	died here
Letitia Youmans	1827–1896	died here
William Thomas Aikins	1827–1897	died here
Christopher Robinson	1828–1905	died here
Edward Hartley Dewart	1828–1903	died here
George Maclean Rose	1829–1898	died here
Alexander Muir	1830–1906	died here
John Walsh	1830–1898	died here
William Caven	1830–1904	died here
Emily Howard Stowe	1831–1903	died here
Charlotte Nickinson	1832–1910	died here
L.R. (Lucius Richard) O'Brien	1832–1899	died here
Robert Jaffray	1832–1914	died here
Rose Jane Elizabeth Grier	1832–1920	died here
Albert Carman	1833–1917	died here
Alexander Sutherland	1833–1910	died here
Edward Blake	1833–1912	died here
Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Harrison	1833–1878	died here
S. A. (Sarah Anne) Curzon	1833–1898	died here
Abram William Lauder	1834–1884	died here
Arthur Sweatman	1834–1909	died here
Robert Simpson	1834–1897	died here
Timothy Eaton	1834–1907	died here
Abner Mulholland Rosebrugh	1835–1914	died here
Charles Pelham Mulvany	1835–1885	died here
S.H. (Samuel Hume) Blake	1835–1914	born here
D'Alton McCarthy	1836–1898	died here
F. H. (Frederick Herbert) Torrington	1836–1917	died here
Henry (Canadian architect Langley	1836–1907	born and died here
Maurice S. (Maurice Scollard) Baldwin	1836–1904	born here
A.P. (Alexander Peter) Cockburn	1837–1905	died here
Anderson Ruffin Abbott	1837–1913	born and died here
Andrew Scott Irving	1837–1904	died here
Arthur Sturgis Hardy	1837–1901	died here
Christopher William Bunting	1837–1896	died here
Francis Collier Draper	1837–1894	born and died here
Hannah Grier Coome	1837–1921	died here
J. A. (John Alexander) Boyd	1837–1916	born and died here
John Bertram	1837–1904	died here
John Kay MacDonald	1837–1928	died here
Charles J. S. (Charles James Stewart) Bethune	1838–1932	died here
Christopher Finlay Fraser	1839–1894	died here
George T. (George Taylor) Denison	1839–1925	born and died here
Nathanael Burwash	1839–1918	died here
W.H. (William Henry) Withrow	1839–1908	born and died here
Edward Marion Chadwick	1840–1921	died here
Eliza Jane Creighton	1840–1929	died here
George Albertus Cox	1840–1914	died here
George Frederick Marter	1840–1907	died here
John Dryden	1840–1909	died here
John Wilson Murray	1840–1906	died here
Matilda Moore Faulkner	1840–1924	died here
Sir Charles Moss	1840–1912	died here
William Alexander Foster	1840–1888	born here
Denis O’Connor	1841–1911	died here
Frederick Brigden	1841–1917	died here
George W. (George William) Ross	1841–1914	died here
J.D. (James David) Edgar	1841–1899	died here
James Loudon	1841–1916	born and died here
John Charles Dent	1841–1888	died here
John Ross Robertson	1841–1918	born and died here
Robert Bell	1841–1917	born here
Sir George Airey Kirkpatrick	1841–1899	died here
David Boyle	1842–1911	died here
Hannah Maria Norris	1842–1919	died here
James Bain	1842–1908	died here
Manly Benson	1842–1919	died here
Margaret O’Neill	1842–1927	died here
Sir John Morison Gibson	1842–1929	born here
Whitney	1842–1914	died here
Elizabeth Bingham	1843–1934	died here
Lyman Melvin Jones	1843–1917	died here
Robert Mathison	1843–1924	died here
W. D. (William Dillon) Otter	1843–1929	died here
Daniel John O’Donoghue	1844–1907	died here
John Seath	1844–1919	died here
John T. (John Thomas) Moore	1844–1917	died here
Matilda Ridout	1844–1910	born here
Newman Wright Hoyles	1844–1927	died here
William Holmes Howland	1844–1893	died here
Alexander Whyte Wright	1845–1919	died here
Annie Thompson	1845–1913	died here
George Washington Smith	1845–1921	died here
Sir Edmund Boyd Osler	1845–1924	died here
Sir James Spearman Winter	1845–1911	died here
A. W. (Arthur Wellington) Ross	1846–1901	died here
Adam Henry Wright	1846–1930	died here
Allan Studholme	1846–1919	died here
Charles O’Reilly	1846–1920	died here
Frederick Charles Denison	1846–1896	born here
Frederick Marlett Bell-Smith	1846–1923	died here
James Laughlin Hughes	1846–1935	died here
John Andrew Paterson	1846–1930	died here
Sir William Glenholme Falconbridge	1846–1920	died here
William Richard Harris	1846–1923	died here
Z. A. (Zebulon Aiton) Lash	1846–1920	died here
Edith Sarah Louisa Boulton	1847–1912	born and died here
George Hope Bertram	1847–1900	died here
Henry James Grasett	1847–1930	born and died here
Jacob Lewis Englehart	1847–1921	died here
Mary Agnes Snively	1847–1933	died here
Arthur Jukes Johnson	1848–1921	died here
Edward Fisher	1848–1913	died here
Edwin Rodie Parkhurst	1848–1924	died here
Frances Esther How	1848–1915	died here
Goad	1848–1910	died here
Henry John Prescott Wilshere Good	1848–1927	died here
James Henry Plummer	1848–1932	died here
John Fitzwilliam Stairs	1848–1904	died here
John Northway	1848–1926	died here
Sir Byron Edmund Walker	1848–1924	died here
R. E. (Rupert Etherege) Kingsford	1849–1920	died here
Thomas Joseph Workman Burgess	1849–1926	born here
William James Gage	1849–1921	died here
William Mackenzie	1849–1923	died here
Ebenezer Forsyth Blackie Johnston	1850–1919	died here
Edmund Burke	1850–1919	born and died here
Francis Stephens Spence	1850–1917	died here
Frank (Canadian architect Darling	1850–1923	died here
Thomas Henry Best	1850–1928	died here
William Pugsley	1850–1925	died here
Wilmot Deloui Matthews	1850–1919	died here
B.E. (Bernhard Eduard) Fernow	1851–1923	died here
Edward Douglas Armour	1851–1922	died here
Elihu James Davis	1851–1936	died here
Emily Ann McCausland Shortt	1851–1930	died here
Francis Huston Wallace	1851–1930	died here
Hiram Augustus Calvin	1851–1932	died here
James Elgin Wetherell	1851–1940	died here
John Wilson Bengough	1851–1923	born and died here
Joseph William Winthrop Spencer	1851–1921	died here
Neil McNeil	1851–1934	died here
William Balfour	1851–1896	died here
Charles Rea Dickson	d. 1938	died here
Elizabeth Gertrude Lawler	d. 1929	died here
Isabella Valancy Crawford	d. 1887	died here
Lionel Herbert Clarke	d. 1921	died here
William Davies	d. 1921	died here

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON043001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON154011 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q172
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1851 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). "Toronto, C, Ontario (1851 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/toronto-c-on043001-1851/.