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Province: Ontario  |  Years recorded: 1861–1881  |  Wikidata: Q1022897

Yorkville, Village, Ontario (1861–1881)

Yorkville, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in 3 censuses between 1861 and 1881. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q1022897, so it can be queried as a single entity even when its boundaries or census name varied across years. Population grew substantially across the period (from 1,570 in 1861 to 4,825 in 1881).

Historical lineage

Ancestor places

Descendant places

Population trajectory across census years

Census yearPopulationPage
18611,570View 1861 detail →
18712,203View 1871 detail →
18814,825View 1881 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 158 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
George Crookshank1773–1859died here
Augustus Warren Baldwin1776–1866died here
Connell James Baldwin1777–1861died here
Andrew Mercer1778–1871died here
John Strachan1778–1867died here
George Ryerson1779–1882died here
Christopher Widmer1780–1858died here
Angus Bethune1783–1858died here
Peter de Blaquière1783–1860died here
Susan Mein1783–1866died here
Hugh Richardson1784–1870died here
Peter Brown1784–1863died here
Caleb Hopkins1785–1880died here
Sophia Simms1785–1859died here
Thomas Allen Stayner1788–1868died here
Robert Burns1789–1869died here
Walter O'Hara1789–1874died here
Henry John Boulton1790–1870died here
John Doel1790–1871died here
William Gooderham1790–1881died here
Archibald McLean1791–1865died here
James Richardson1791–1875died here
Sir John Beverley Robinson1791–1863died here
George Gurnett1792–1861died here
Samuel Peters Jarvis1792–1857died here
Thomas Fisher1792–1874died here
Thomas Gibbs Ridout1792–1861died here
George Coventry1793–1870died here
James Buchanan Macaulay1793–1859died here
James G. (James Grant) Chewett1793–1862died here
Charles Albert Berczy1794–1858died here
Robert Stanton1794–1866died here
William Hincks1794–1871died here
John Ellis1795–1877died here
Thomas Helliwell1795–1862died here
Thomas Mercer Jones1795–1868died here
William Lyon Mackenzie1795–1861died here
William Benjamin Robinson1797–1873died here
William Ryerson1797–1872died here
Andrew Norton Buell1798–1880died here
James Scott Howard1798–1866died here
Judah George Joseph1798–1857died here
Rowland Burr1798–1865died here
William Botsford Jarvis1799–1864died here
William Thomas1799–1860died here
A. N. (Alexander Neil) Bethune1800–1879died here
Robert Cooney1800–1870died here
Walter Telfer1800–1857died here
William Rees1800–1874died here
Anson Green1801–1879died here
George Monro1801–1878died here
John Elmsley1801–1863died here
John Roaf1801–1862died here
William Cawthra1801–1880died here
William Henry Draper1801–1877died here
Wilson Ruffin Abbott1801–1876died here
Donald Bethune1802–1869died here
George Anthony Barber1802–1874died here
James Lesslie1802–1885died here
Joseph Stinson1802–1862died here
Samuel Bealey Harrison1802–1867died here
Thomas Clarkson1802–1874died here
Egerton Ryerson1803–1882died here
Francis Henry Medcalf1803–1880died here
Frederick Chase Capreol1803–1886died here
Ogle Robert Gowan1803–1876died here
Susanna Strickland1803–1885died here
Thomas Dennie Harris1803–1873died here
Thomas Ford Caldicott1803–1869died here
Thomas Thompson1803–1868died here
William McClure1803–1871died here
William R. (William Rawlins) Beaumont1803–1875died here
George Buckland1804–1885died here
John Jacques1804–1886died here
John McMurrich1804–1883died here
Robert Baldwin1804–1858died here
Andrew Taylor McCord1805–1881died here
James Christie Palmer Esten1805–1864died here
Robert Easton Burns1805–1863died here
Thomas Jaffray Robertson1805–1866died here
Thomas Young1805–1860died here
William Gamble1805–1881died here
Dominick Edward Blake1806–1859died here
John Godfrey Spragge1806–1884died here
George Percival Ridout1807–1873died here
James Paton Clarke1807–1877died here
Peter Paterson1807–1883died here
Henry James Grasett1808–1882died here
James McGill Strachan1808–1870died here
John Taylor1809–1871died here
Joseph Davis Ridout1809–1884died here
Robert Clow Todd1809–1866died here
Thomas Dick1809–1874died here
W. B. (William Benjamin) Wells1809–1881died here
William Hume Blake1809–1870died here
Benjamin Lyman1810–1878died here
Edward Mulberry Hodder1810–1878died here
George Skeffington Connor1810–1863died here
Paul Kane1810–1871died here
Samuel Thompson1810–1886died here
William Hamilton1810–1880died here
Alexander Somerville1811–1885died here
James Dodsley Humphreys1811–1877died here
Robert Spence1811–1868died here
Charles Donlevy1812–1858died here
George Duggan1812–1876died here
James Porter1812–1874died here
John George Bowes1812–1864died here
W.H. (William Henry) Boulton1812–1874died here
William Smith Durie1813–1885died here
Alexander Topp1814–1879died here
John Jennings1814–1876died here
J. Sheridan (John Sheridan) Hogan1815–1859died here
Samuel Dwight Rice1815–1884died here
Donald McDonald1816–1879died here
George Taylor Denison II1816–1873died here
George Templeman Kingston1816–1886died here
Joseph Curran Morrison1816–1885died here
William Arthur Johnson1816–1880died here
Frederick Fauquier1817–1881died here
Henry Eccles1817–1863died here
J. Hillyard Cameron1817–1876died here
James William Bridgland1817–1880died here
John Willoughby Crawford1817–1875died here
Ezekiel Francis Whittemore1818–1859died here
George Brown1818–1880died here
James Gooderham Worts1818–1882died here
John Ross1818–1871died here
Ferdinand Griebel1819–1858died here
John Smith1819–1881died here
Frederic William Cumberland1820–1881died here
Angus Morrison1822–1882died here
Philip Michael Matthew Scott VanKoughnet1822–1869died here
Maria Bunning1824–1868died here
Thomas Nepean Molesworth1824–1879died here
D'Arcy Boulton1825–1875died here
Daniel Morrison1826–1870died here
Bernard Rogan Ross1827–1874died here
Charles Legge1829–1881died here
Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Harrison1833–1878died here
Abram William Lauder1834–1884died here
Andrew Greig Fleming1835–1876died here
Charles Pelham Mulvany1835–1885died here
William Jordan Rattray1835–1883died here
Samuel James Watson1842–1881died here
Alfred Oakley1846–1883died here
Charles Sheard1857–1929born here
James Grand1857–1921born here
Susan Frances Riley1857–1935born here
Emily Spencer1860–1938born here
James Alexander MacDonald1862–1923born here
Lawrence Solman1863–1931born here
William Harley Smith1863–1929born here
Joe Boyle1867–1923born here
קלרה בראט מרטין1874–1923born here
Helen McNicoll1879–1915born here
Davidson Black1884–1934born here
L. Bruce Robertson1885–1923born 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.