Whitby, W-O, Ontario (1871 census)

Name: Whitby, W-O (1871)
Address: Ontario, CA

Whitby, W-O was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 3,220. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.939°N, 78.967°W.

Population

In 1871, Whitby, W-O had a population of 3,220: 1,671 male and 1,549 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1861	3,546
1871	3,220

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.

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD contained Whitby W-O, 1881 (86.2% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, Whitby, W-O shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 18 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 3,220 total population, 1,671 males, 1,549 females, 1,034 married persons, 614 families, 519 married females, 515 married males, 119 widowed persons, 87 widowed females, 32 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 2,067 single persons under 18, 1,124 single males under 18, 943 single females under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 605 inhabited houses, 605 occupied houses, 19 uninhabited houses, 3 houses under construction. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 31,660 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 31 people connected to this place who were alive in 1871, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Annie Amelia Chesley	1857–1910	born here
James Francis White	1857–1922	born here
Nicholas Du Bois Dominic Beck	1857–1928	born here
Robert Miller	1857–1935	born here
Charles Coursolles McCaul	1858–1928	born here
Charles Hastings	1858–1931	born here
Edwin Carswell	1858–1919	born here
Henry Oscar Partridge	1858–1916	born here
Jacob Gill Gaudaur	1858–1937	born here
Thomas Nathaniel Willing	1858–1920	born here
Colin H. Campbell	1859–1914	born here
Malcolm Smith Mercer	1859–1916	born here
Robert Franklin Sutherland	1859–1922	born here
Robert Thornton Lowery	1859–1921	born here
Thomas Edmonds Wilson	1859–1933	born here
William Henry Beaufort Aikins	1859–1924	born here
Ada Mary Brown	1860–1923	born here
Erastus William Wilson	1860–1922	born here
Frederick Coate Wade	1860–1924	born here
Napoléon Antoine Belcourt	1860–1932	born here
Samuel Thomas Wood	1860–1917	born here
Sir Augustus Meredith Nanton	1860–1925	born here
Albert Gooderham	1861–1935	born here
Tobias Crawford Norris	1861–1936	born here
William Joseph O’Connor	1862–1892	born here
Joseph Emanuel Armstrong	1864–1931	born here
Walter Edward Hart Massey	1864–1901	born here
Percival Baker	1867–1921	born here
James Arthur Little	1868–1931	born here
Mary Ann Whalen	1870–1938	born here
William Stewart Herron	1870–1939	born here

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON048002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON048002 — 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 1871 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, W-O, Ontario (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/whitby-w-o-on048002-1871/.