York, Ontario (1851–1911)

Name: York
Address: Ontario, CA

York was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in 3 censuses between 1851 and 1911.

Historical lineage

Ancestor places

incorporates territory from Lunatic Asylum in 1861
incorporates territory from Upper Canada College in 1861

Descendant places

later split into Yorkville, Village in 1861
later split into York, E in 1871
later split into York, W-O in 1871
later split into Religious, Collegiate, and other Public Institutions in 1861
later split into Leaside, T-V in 1921

Population trajectory across census years

Census year	Population	Page
1851	10,035	View 1851 detail →
1861	10,337	View 1861 detail →
1911	13,871	View 1911 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 61 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
George Martin	1767–1853	died here
William Allan	1770–1853	died here
Seneca Ketchum	1772–1850	died here
Joseph Wells	1773–1853	died here
Washington Christian	1776–1850	died here
Levius Peters Sherwood	1777–1850	died here
Samuel Smith Ridout	1778–1855	died here
John Ewart	1788–1856	died here
John Smyth	1792–1852	died here
Henry Esson	1793–1853	died here
Samuel Proudfoot Hurd	1793–1853	died here
Edward William Thomson	1794–1865	died here
John McIntosh	1796–1853	died here
Robert Sympson Jameson	1796–1854	died here
Thomas David Morrison	1796–1856	died here
William Scott Burn	1797–1851	died here
James Edward Small	1798–1869	born here
John William Gamble	1799–1873	born here
John Elmsley	1801–1863	born here
John Joseph	1801–1851	died here
Robert Baldwin Sullivan	1802–1853	died here
David Gilkison	1803–1851	died here
William Stewart	1803–1856	died here
John Craig	1804–1854	died here
George Okill Stuart	1807–1884	born here
Allan MacDonell	1808–1888	born here
Hugh Scobie	1811–1853	died here
W.H. (William Henry) Boulton	1812–1874	born here
John Allanson	1813–1853	died here
John Cochrane	1813–1850	died here
Marie-Antoinette Fontbonne	1813–1856	died here
George Taylor Denison II	1816–1873	born here
James William Bridgland	1817–1880	born here
Migisi	1818–1906	born here
William McDougall	1822–1905	born here
Ephraim Jones Parke	1823–1899	born here
Christopher Robinson	1828–1905	born here
John Jacob Withrow	1833–1900	born here
W. H. (William Henry) Beatty	1833–1912	born here
Edward Madan Miles	1835–1866	died here
Joseph Harris	1835–1899	born here
S.H. (Samuel Hume) Blake	1835–1914	born here
William Rennie	1835–1910	died here
Henry (Canadian architect Langley	1836–1907	born here
Walter Sutherland Lee	1836–1902	born here
Anderson Ruffin Abbott	1837–1913	born here
Francis Collier Draper	1837–1894	born here
J. A. (John Alexander) Boyd	1837–1916	born here
George T. (George Taylor) Denison	1839–1925	born here
William Alexander Foster	1840–1888	born here
James Loudon	1841–1916	born here
John Ross Robertson	1841–1918	born here
Harry Rich	1843–1914	died here
Alexander Whyte Wright	1845–1919	born here
John Armstrong	1845–1910	born here
Samuel James McKee	1849–1937	born here
Edmund Burke	1850–1919	born here
William Egerton Hodgins	1850–1930	born here
Elihu James Davis	1851–1936	born here
William George Gooderham	1853–1935	born here
George Ansel Sterling Ryerson	1855–1925	born here

Identifiers

Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON138001_1911 — assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap
Wikidata: not yet grounded.

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.