Province: Ontario | Years recorded: 1861–1861 | Wikidata: Q386338

Whitby, West, Ontario (1861–1861)

Name: Whitby, West
Address: Ontario, CA

Whitby, West was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in 1 census between 1861 and 1861. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q386338, so it can be queried as a single entity even when its boundaries or census name varied across years.

Historical lineage

Ancestor places

split off from Whitby in 1861

Population trajectory across census years

Census year	Population	Page
1861	3,546	View 1861 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 27 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.

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

Identifiers

Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON089012 — assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap
Wikidata: Q386338
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitby,_Ontario
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitby_(Ontario)

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.