Whitby, Ontario (1911 census)

Name: Whitby (1911)
Address: Ontario, CA

Whitby was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 1,875. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q7994182. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.934°N, 78.966°W.

Population

In 1911, Whitby had a population of 1,875: 962 male and 913 female residents. Population density was 37.5 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1851	7,996
1861	2,697
1871	2,732
1881	3,140
1891	2,551
1901	2,050
1911	1,875
1921	3,119

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, Whitby shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 37 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 32,007 area in acres, 1,875 total population, 962 males in the population, 913 females in the population, 557 single (never-married) males, 467 single (never-married) females, 464 families, 372 married females, 371 married males, 73 widowed females, 50.01 area in square miles, 37.49 population per square mile, 33 widowed males, 1 females with marital status not given, 1 males with marital status not given. 2,050 population in the previous census (1901 reference column included in 1911 V1T1). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Ethnic origin (1911). This community's record includes 1,271 persons of British origin (English), 299 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 244 persons of British origin (Irish), 18 persons of German origin, 13 persons of Dutch origin, 6 persons of French origin, 3 persons of British origin (other), 1 persons of Italian origin. 7 persons recorded under the 1911 official census category "Jewish" (origin/ethnicity, distinct from the V2T2 religion category "Jews"). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

Religion (1911). This community's record includes 1,011 Methodists, 494 Presbyterians, 257 Anglicans (Church of England), 59 Baptists, 33 Roman Catholics, 13 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified, 7 Jews, 5 Christians (general / no denomination specified), 2 Salvation Army adherents, 1 Friends (Quakers), 1 Mormons (Latter-day Saints). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2; V2T7.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 464 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 51 people connected to this place who were alive in 1911, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Mary Thompson	b. 1801	born here
Teresa McDonell	1833–1917	born here
John Freeman Davis	1835–1916	born here
C. A. (Charles Augustus) Semlin	1836–1927	born here
Hannah Grier Coome	1837–1921	born here
James Branston Willmott	1837–1915	born here
George Albertus Cox	1840–1914	born here
Sir Charles Moss	1840–1912	born here
Denis O’Connor	1841–1911	born here
Robert Bell	1841–1917	born here
Hector Mansfield Howell	1842–1918	born here
Margaret O’Neill	1842–1927	born here
Elizabeth Bingham	1843–1934	born here
John Joseph Cassidy	1843–1914	born here
Lyman Melvin Jones	1843–1917	born here
Thomas Simpson Sproule	1843–1917	born here
Sir Edmund Boyd Osler	1845–1924	born here
Adam Henry Wright	1846–1930	born here
Daniel Hunter McMillan Canadian politician (1846-1933)	1846–1933	born here
Marion Fairweather	1846–1923	born here
George Henry Ham	1847–1926	born here
Henry James Grasett	1847–1930	born here
Arthur Jukes Johnson	1848–1921	born here
Daniel Francis Burk	1848–1917	born here
Sir William Osler	1849–1919	born here
Thomas Joseph Workman Burgess	1849–1926	born here
Benjamin Fish Austin	1850–1933	born here
Thomas Henry Best	1850–1928	born here
James Albert Manning Aikins	1851–1929	born here
John Wilson Bengough	1851–1923	born here
A.H.F. (Augustus Henry Frazer) Lefroy	1852–1919	born here
Fergus Patrick McEvay	1852–1911	born here
James Carruthers	1853–1924	born here
Robert Allan Pyne	1853–1931	born here
Alice G.	1854–1938	born here
Lillian Frances Massey	1854–1915	born here
Robert John Fleming	1854–1925	born here
George Frederick Galt	1855–1928	born here
Levi Thomson	1855–1938	born here
Margaret Ruttan Boucher	1855–1931	born here
Mossom Martin Boyd	1855–1914	born here
Anna Bella Peel	1856–1933	born here
Caroline Louisa Josephine Irwin	1856–1939	born here
George Tate Blackstock	1856–1921	born here
John Stoughton Dennis	1856–1938	born here
Patrick Burns	1856–1937	born here
Sir Frank Stillman Barnard	1856–1936	born here
Caroline Sophia Brown	1862–1936	died here
Norman Bethune	1890–1939	born here
Frederick Grant Banting	1891–1941	born here
Donald Grant Creighton	1902–1979	born and died here

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON104004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON133010 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q7994182
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitby_Township

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1911 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 (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/whitby-on104004-1911/.