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Province: Ontario  |  Years recorded: 1851–1921  |  Wikidata: Q7994182

Whitby, Ontario (1851–1921)

Whitby was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in 8 censuses between 1851 and 1921. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q7994182, so it can be queried as a single entity even when its boundaries or census name varied across years. Population declined across the period (from 7,996 in 1851 to 3,119 in 1921).

Historical lineage

Ancestor places

Descendant places

Population trajectory across census years

Census yearPopulationPage
18517,996View 1851 detail →
18612,697View 1861 detail →
18712,732View 1871 detail →
18813,140View 1881 detail →
18912,551View 1891 detail →
19012,050View 1901 detail →
19111,875View 1911 detail →
19213,119View 1921 detail →

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

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 94 people connected to this place across the 1851–1921 period, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry; the connection tag indicates whether the documented event was a birth, death, or burial at this place.

NameLifespanConnection
Anthony Bewden Hawke1770–1867died here
Vincent Philip Mayerhoffer1784–1859died here
James Rogers Armstrong1787–1873died here
Conrad Van Dusen1801–1878died here
Mary Thompsonb. 1801born here
Robert Baldwin1804–1858born here
Benjamin Wait1813–1895born here
John Beverley Robinson1820–1896born here
Joseph Hartman1821–1859born 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
William Henry King1833–1859born 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
Donald Grant Creighton1902–1979born and died here
George Parkin Grant1918–1988born here

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1851–1921 Census of Canada series, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project. Each year's detail page (linked above) cites the specific source table.