Toronto, C, Ontario (1921 census)

Name: Toronto, C (1921)
Address: Ontario, CA

Toronto, C was a city in Ontario, recorded in the 1921 Census of Canada with a population of 521,893. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q172. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.671°N, 79.391°W.

Population

In 1921, Toronto, C had a population of 521,893: 250,944 male and 270,949 female residents.

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.

Earlier boundary forms

In an earlier year, this CSD contained Toronto c pt, 1911 (29.8% share).
In an earlier year, this CSD contained North Toronto t-v, 1911 (12.3% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1921

In the 1921 census, Toronto, C shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1921

The 1921 census recorded 53 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1921). This community's record includes 521,893 total population, 270,949 females in the population, 250,944 males in the population, 173,599 females born in Canada, 151,169 males born in Canada, 75,523 females born in the British Empire (excluding Canada), 73,661 males born in the British Empire (excluding Canada), 26,114 males born outside the British Empire, 21,827 females born outside the British Empire. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T16.)

Ethnic origin (1921). This community's record includes 260,860 persons of British origin (English), 97,361 persons of British origin (Irish), 83,620 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 8,350 persons of French origin, 8,217 persons of Italian origin, 4,689 persons of German origin, 3,961 persons of Dutch origin, 3,389 persons of British origin (other), 2,387 persons of other European origin, 2,380 persons of Polish origin, 2,176 persons of Chinese or Japanese origin, 1,332 persons of Russian origin, 1,175 persons of Austrian origin, 1,149 persons of Ukrainian origin, 1,109 persons of Scandinavian origin, 812 persons of Greek origin, 735 persons of Finnish origin, 387 persons of Syrian origin, 215 persons of Belgian origin, 63 persons of other Asian origin. 34,619 persons recorded under the 1921 official census category "Hebrew" (origin/ethnicity); now described as Jewish origin. 1,236 persons recorded under the 1911/1921 official census category "Negro"; refers to people of African descent. Term is now considered offensive and is preserved here only as the historical source label. 183 persons recorded under the official census category "Indian"; corresponds to what is now described as Indigenous (First Nations; in northern enumerations also Inuit) origin. "Indian" was simultaneously a census category and the legal/administrative term under the Indian Act (1876). (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T27.)

Religion (1921). This community's record includes 173,522 Anglicans (Church of England), 113,151 Presbyterians, 84,895 Methodists, 64,773 Roman Catholics, 34,377 Jews, 26,228 Baptists, 7,823 adherents of other sects (residual category in 1921), 3,632 Greek (Orthodox) Church adherents, 2,977 Salvation Army adherents, 2,736 Congregationalists, 1,640 Lutherans, 1,488 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified, 1,154 Brethren, 1,035 adherents of Eastern religions, 796 Protestants (general / no denomination specified), 498 Disciples of Christ, 489 Mormons (Latter-day Saints), 456 Christians (general / no denomination specified), 241 Adventists, 151 Mennonites, 106 members of the Evangelical Association. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T27; V1T38.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 159 people connected to this place who were alive in 1921, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Hannah Grier Coome	1837–1921	died here
John Kay MacDonald	1837–1928	died here
Charles J. S. (Charles James Stewart) Bethune	1838–1932	died here
George T. (George Taylor) Denison	1839–1925	born and died here
Edward Marion Chadwick	1840–1921	died here
Eliza Jane Creighton	1840–1929	died here
Matilda Moore Faulkner	1840–1924	died here
Margaret O’Neill	1842–1927	died here
Sir John Morison Gibson	1842–1929	born here
Elizabeth Bingham	1843–1934	died here
Robert Mathison	1843–1924	died here
W. D. (William Dillon) Otter	1843–1929	died here
Newman Wright Hoyles	1844–1927	died here
George Washington Smith	1845–1921	died here
Sir Edmund Boyd Osler	1845–1924	died here
Adam Henry Wright	1846–1930	died here
Frederick Marlett Bell-Smith	1846–1923	died here
James Laughlin Hughes	1846–1935	died here
John Andrew Paterson	1846–1930	died here
William Richard Harris	1846–1923	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
Edwin Rodie Parkhurst	1848–1924	died here
Henry John Prescott Wilshere Good	1848–1927	died here
James Henry Plummer	1848–1932	died here
John Northway	1848–1926	died here
Sir Byron Edmund Walker	1848–1924	died here
Thomas Joseph Workman Burgess	1849–1926	born here
William James Gage	1849–1921	died here
William Mackenzie	1849–1923	died here
Frank (Canadian architect Darling	1850–1923	died here
Thomas Henry Best	1850–1928	died here
William Pugsley	1850–1925	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
Ann Jane Powell	1853–1924	died here
Donald Mann	1853–1934	died here
Robert Allan Pyne	1853–1931	died here
Sara Mickle	1853–1930	died here
William George Gooderham	1853–1935	died here
William Odber Raymond	1853–1923	died here
Alice G.	1854–1938	died here
Mary Hiester Reid	1854–1921	died here
Robert John Fleming	1854–1925	born and died here
W. F. (William Findlay) Maclean	1854–1929	died here
Frederic Nicholls	1855–1921	died here
George Ansel Sterling Ryerson	1855–1925	born and died here
Anna Bella Peel	1856–1933	died here
Caroline Louisa Josephine Irwin	1856–1939	died here
George Tate Blackstock	1856–1921	died here
John Willison	1856–1927	died here
C. P. (Charles Pitcher) Clarke	1857–1924	died here
Charles Sheard	1857–1929	born and died here
James Francis White	1857–1922	died here
James Grand	1857–1921	died here
Susan Frances Riley	1857–1935	died here
Thomas Buchanan Kilpatrick	1857–1930	died here
William James Thomson	1857–1927	died here
Charles Hastings	1858–1931	died here
David Blythe Hanna	1858–1938	died here
George Lyon	1858–1938	died here
Joseph Taylor Marks	1858–1932	died here
Wallace Nesbitt	1858–1930	died here
William James McKay	1858–1922	died here
Albert Durrant Watson	1859–1926	died here
Arthur Godfrey Peuchen	1859–1929	died here
David Arthur Carey	1859–1927	died here
Eugene Marius Antoine Coste	1859–1940	died here
George Augustus Warburton	1859–1929	died here
James A. (James Alexander) Robb	1859–1929	died here
John George Shearer	1859–1925	died here
Robert Franklin Sutherland	1859–1922	died here
William Henry Beaufort Aikins	1859–1924	died here
Ada Mary Brown	1860–1923	died here
David Fasken	1860–1929	died here
E.J. (Edward James) Devine	1860–1927	died here
Francis Henry Keefer	1860–1928	died here
Isaac Halpern	1860–1922	died here
John Taylor Fotheringham	1860–1940	died here
Napoléon Antoine Belcourt	1860–1932	born here
Sir Augustus Meredith Nanton	1860–1925	born and died here
Albert Gooderham	1861–1935	born and died here
Augustus Stephen Vogt	1861–1926	died here
Edmund James Bristol	1861–1927	died here
Perry E. Doolittle	1861–1933	died here
Tobias Crawford Norris	1861–1936	died here
Alfred Fitzpatrick	1862–1936	died here
Carl Ahrens	1862–1936	died here
Harry Alden Richardson	1862–1923	died here
James Alexander MacDonald	1862–1923	died here
Lancelot Peter Minehan	1862–1930	died here
John Charles Fields	1863–1932	died here
Lawrence Solman	1863–1931	born and died here
Mark Bredin	1863–1935	died here
William Harley Smith	1863–1929	died here
Arthur Osborne Dawson	1864–1940	died here
John Castell Hopkins	1864–1923	died here
Leonard James Skill	1864–1923	died here
Edward Bayly	1865–1934	died here
George Weston	1865–1924	died here
Alfred Ernest Ames	1866–1934	died here
William Lash Miller	1866–1940	died here
Flora Macdonald Merrill	1867–1921	died here
Joe Boyle	1867–1923	born here
Newton Wesley Rowell	1867–1941	died here
William Wallace	1867–1928	died here
Emma Priscilla Scott	1868–1940	died here
Harry Judson Crowe	1868–1928	died here
Margaret Eleanor Theodora Addison	1868–1940	died here
William Eugene Struthers	1869–1928	died here
Edith Sarah Lelean	1870–1931	died here
Mary Ann Whalen	1870–1938	died here
Charles William Vernon	1871–1934	died here
Rose Henderson	1871–1937	died here
William Gore	1871–1934	died here
James Henry Fleming	1872–1940	born and died here
Theodore Pringle Loblaw	1872–1933	died here
William Lawson Grant	1872–1935	died here
James Edward Hervey MacDonald	1873–1932	died here
Arthur Meighen	1874–1960	died here
Isaac Hillock Weldon	1874–1928	died here
Lucy Maud Montgomery	1874–1942	died here
Thomas Crawford Brown	1874–1929	died here
William Oliver Carson	1874–1929	died here
קלרה בראט מרטין	1874–1923	born and died here
Francis Joseph Patrick Crean	1875–1932	died here
Frank Wilton Baillie	1875–1921	born and died here
Harvey Pulford	1875–1940	born here
John Craig Eaton	1876–1922	born and died here
Rodolphe Plamondon	1876–1940	born and died here
Thomas Alexander Russell	1877–1940	died here
Norton Hervey Crow	1878–1929	died here
Bertha Harmer	1880–1934	died here
Garnet Burk Hughes	1880–1937	died here
John Gerald Fitzgerald	1882–1940	died here
Davidson Black	1884–1934	born here
Henry Dworkin	1885–1928	died here
L. Bruce Robertson	1885–1923	born and died here
Laura Elizabeth McCully	1886–1924	born and died here
William James Pentland	1888–1933	died here
Lester B. Pearson	1897–1972	born here
Charles Herbert Best	1899–1978	died here
Donald Grant Creighton	1902–1979	born here
Northrop Frye	1912–1991	died here
George Parkin Grant	1918–1988	born here
Charles Rea Dickson	d. 1938	died here
Elizabeth Gertrude Lawler	d. 1929	died here
Lionel Herbert Clarke	d. 1921	died here
William Davies	d. 1921	died here

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON154011 — 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 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). "Toronto, C, Ontario (1921 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/toronto-c-on154011-1921/.