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Year: 1891  |  Province: Ontario  |  Wikidata: Q7994182

Whitby, Ontario (1891 census)

Whitby was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 2,551. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q7994182. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.934°N, 78.966°W.

Population

In 1891, Whitby had a population of 2,551: 1,332 male and 1,219 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18517,996
18612,697
18712,732
18813,140
18912,551
19012,050
19111,875
19213,119

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.

Earlier boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Whitby shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 85 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 2,551 total population, 1,332 males, 1,219 females, 857 married persons, 535 families, 429 married females, 428 married males, 117 widowed persons, 78 widowed females, 39 widowed males, 4.80 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 1,577 single persons under 18, 865 single males under 18, 712 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 2,549 persons who are not French Canadian, 2 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 530 houses, 530 occupied houses, 415 houses built of wood, 343 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 299 houses of 1 story, 231 houses of 2 stories, 96 houses built of brick, 61 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 50 houses of 5 rooms, 43 houses of 4 rooms, 38 uninhabited houses, 19 houses built of stone, 15 houses of 3 rooms, 11 houses of over 15 rooms, 6 houses of 2 rooms, 1 houses of 1 room, 1 houses under construction. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 503,885 bushels of turnips, 173,379 pounds of homemade butter, 95,327 bushels of oats, 84,884 bushels of barley, 32,006 acres of land in farms, 31,148 bushels of peas, 29,445 acres of improved land in farms, 27,573 bushels of spring wheat, 22,393 acres of farmland under crops, 21,338 bushels of potatoes, 17,588 bushels of corn, 16,075 chickens, 7,336 tons of hay, 6,336 acres of farmland in pasture, 4,995 bushels of winter wheat, 4,547 acres of hay crops, 4,128 bushels of buckwheat, 4,048 acres of barley, 3,519 acres of oats, 3,455 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 2,803 other cattle, 2,801 acres of wheat, 2,561 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 2,391 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 2,217 swine, 2,138 swine slaughtered or sold, 1,410 bushels of rye, 1,338 milk cows, 1,206 acres of turnips, 1,174 sheep, 1,110 horses aged over 3 years, 983 cattle killed or sold, 926 ducks, 794 turkeys, 733 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 716 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 617 geese, 606 horses aged 3 years and under, 517 occupants of farms, 437 sheep slaughtered or sold, 313 farm occupants who own their land, 294 bushels of beans, 252 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 249 acres of potatoes, 203 farm occupants who rent their land, 199 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 104 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 85 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 47 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 36 other fowl, 29 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 1 employees on farms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 85 people connected to this place who were alive in 1891, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

NameLifespanConnection
Mary Thompsonb. 1801born here
Benjamin Wait1813–1895born here
John Beverley Robinson1820–1896born here
Samuel Wilmot1822–1899born here
James Cox Aikins, mla1823–1904born here
Darby Bergin1826–1896born here
James Beatty Grafton1826–1909born here
Jacob Hunter Todd1827–1899born here
Letitia Youmans1827–1896born here
William Thomas Aikins1827–1897born here
William Cameron Chewett1828–1897born here
Anne Gregg Ryan1830–1901born here
Mary Ann Wilson1830–1908born here
Teresa McDonell1833–1917born here
Erastus Wiman1834–1904born here
John Freeman Davis1835–1916born here
William McCabe1835–1903born here
C. A. (Charles Augustus) Semlin1836–1927born here
David Allanson Jones1836–1910born here
Maurice S. (Maurice Scollard) Baldwin1836–1904born here
Robert Henry Bethune1836–1895born here
Hannah Grier Coome1837–1921born here
James Branston Willmott1837–1915born here
Britton Bath Osler1839–1901born here
W.H. (William Henry) Withrow1839–1908born here
Colin Burgess1840–1905born here
George Albertus Cox1840–1914born here
John Dryden1840–1909born here
Sir Charles Moss1840–1912born here
Charles Arkoll Boulton1841–1899born here
Denis O’Connor1841–1911born here
Robert Bell1841–1917born here
Hector Mansfield Howell1842–1918born here
Margaret O’Neill1842–1927born here
William Albert Reeve1842–1894born here
Elizabeth Bingham1843–1934born here
John Joseph Cassidy1843–1914born here
Lyman Melvin Jones1843–1917born here
Thomas Simpson Sproule1843–1917born here
Matilda Ridout1844–1910born here
Nathaniel Clarke Wallace1844–1901born here
John B. Mather1845–1892born here
Sir Edmund Boyd Osler1845–1924born here
Adam Henry Wright1846–1930born here
Daniel Hunter McMillan Canadian politician (1846-1933)1846–1933born here
Marion Fairweather1846–1923born here
William Tyndale Jennings1846–1906born here
Alfred Moore Phillips1847–1896born here
George Henry Ham1847–1926born here
Henry James Grasett1847–1930born here
James Elliot Graham1847–1899born here
L. McMaster1847–1903born here
Arthur Jukes Johnson1848–1921born here
Daniel Francis Burk1848–1917born here
Charles March1849–1908born here
Sir William Osler1849–1919born here
Thomas Joseph Workman Burgess1849–1926born here
Benjamin Fish Austin1850–1933born here
Grace Sarah Hall Thompson1850–1907born here
John Houston1850–1910born here
Thomas Henry Best1850–1928born here
James Albert Manning Aikins1851–1929born here
John Wilson Bengough1851–1923born here
A.H.F. (Augustus Henry Frazer) Lefroy1852–1919born here
Fergus Patrick McEvay1852–1911born here
James Carruthers1853–1924born here
Robert Allan Pyne1853–1931born here
Alice G.1854–1938born here
Lillian Frances Massey1854–1915born here
Richard Irvine Bentley1854–1909born here
Robert John Fleming1854–1925born here
Edward Hanlan1855–1908born here
George Frederick Galt1855–1928born here
Levi Thomson1855–1938born here
Margaret Ruttan Boucher1855–1931born here
Mossom Martin Boyd1855–1914born here
Anna Bella Peel1856–1933born here
Caroline Louisa Josephine Irwin1856–1939born here
George Tate Blackstock1856–1921born here
John Stoughton Dennis1856–1938born here
Patrick Burns1856–1937born here
Sir Frank Stillman Barnard1856–1936born here
Caroline Sophia Brown1862–1936died here
Norman Bethune1890–1939born here
Frederick Grant Banting1891–1941born here

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1891 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). "Whitby, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/whitby-on102005-1891/.