Toronto, Ward—Quartier 2 (part), Ontario (1901 census)

Name: Toronto, Ward—Quartier 2 (part) (1901)
Address: Ontario, CA

Toronto, Ward—Quartier 2 (part) was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 3,138. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.677°N, 79.382°W.

Population

In 1901, Toronto, Ward—Quartier 2 (part) had a population of 3,138: 1,319 male and 1,819 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 was contained in Toronto, St. Paul & St. Mathew’s, Ward—Quartier, 1891 (14.8% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, Toronto, Ward—Quartier 2 (part) shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1901

The 1901 census recorded 12 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1901). This community's record includes 3,138 total population, 1,819 females, 1,319 males, 1,156 single females, 757 single males, 608 families, 555 married females, 537 married males, 108 widowed females, 25 widowed males. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Buildings & housing (1901). This community's record includes 600 houses. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Agriculture (1901). This community's record includes 630 total area (acres). (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 43 people connected to this place who were alive in 1901, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Henry Scadding	1813–1901	died here
Alexander Henderson Manning	1819–1903	died here
Kivas Tully	1820–1905	died here
Sir Oliver Mowat	1820–1903	died here
Sir Frank Smith	1822–1901	died here
Alexander Kirkwood	1823–1901	died here
David Breakenridge Read	1823–1904	died here
Delos White Beadle	1823–1905	died here
James Cox Aikins, mla	1823–1904	died here
Henry Stark Howland	1824–1902	died here
Christopher Robinson	1828–1905	died here
Edward Hartley Dewart	1828–1903	died here
Joseph McCausland	1828–1905	died here
Ellen Dinan	1829–1901	died here
Newman Leopold Steiner	1829–1903	died here
Alexander Muir	1830–1906	died here
Anne Gregg Ryan	1830–1901	died here
George Gooderham	1830–1905	died here
William Caven	1830–1904	died here
Daniel Morse Welton	1831–1904	died here
Emily Howard Stowe	1831–1903	died here
Patrick Boyle	1832–1901	died here
Nelson Burns	1834–1904	died here
Richard Sugden Williams	1834–1906	died here
Robert Watt Elliot	1835–1905	died here
William McCabe	1835–1903	died here
Walter Sutherland Lee	1836–1902	died here
A.P. (Alexander Peter) Cockburn	1837–1905	died here
Andrew Scott Irving	1837–1904	died here
Arthur Sturgis Hardy	1837–1901	died here
Jane Buchan	1837–1904	died here
John Bertram	1837–1904	died here
James Robertson	1839–1902	died here
Colin Burgess	1840–1905	died here
John Wilson Murray	1840–1906	died here
James Paterson Sheraton	1841–1906	died here
Robert Harvey Warden	1841–1905	died here
John Millar	1842–1905	died here
A. W. (Arthur Wellington) Ross	1846–1901	died here
John Fitzwilliam Stairs	1848–1904	died here
Kate Eva Westlake	1856–1906	died here
Minerva Margaret Greenaway	1873–1906	died here
Edith Mary Peckham Sheppard	1900–1934	born here

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON129007 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON129007 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1901 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, Ward—Quartier 2 (part), Ontario (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/toronto-ward-quartier-2-part-on129007-1901/.