Ontario municipalities pre-1950 boundaries

[King of Kensington]

Working on a project of getting the current populations of roughly the "inner city" or prewar municipality - that is the area of Ontario municipalities before the many annexations of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s (and beyond).

Many municipalities saw a postwar expansion of boundaries: Ottawa, Hamilton, London, Kitchener, St. Catharines, Kingston, Guelph, Peterborough, etc.

It is easier to do CMAs where one can pretty easily use census tracts, but I can get dissemination area level data for smaller municipalities as well.

If people have information on the rough pre-war boundaries, feel free to share them.

 

[King of Kensington]

Here's a link to an old Sunoco road map with boundaries.

http://www.ontarioroadmaps.ca/index...2-1951-sunoco-oil-company-road-map-of-ontario

I just did the 2 smallest ones, will do the rest later today or tomorrow.

For "old" Kingston I get 27,812 (it was 33,000 in 1951).

For "old" Niagara Falls I get 14,256 (down significantly from 22,000 in 1951).

 

[King of Kensington]

"Inner-city" populations:

Hamilton 143,000
Ottawa 110,000
Windsor 82,000 (about 1/3 decline since 1951)
London 69,000

Also did "old" St. Catharines, which has 34,000.

http://www.tbhs.ca/images/uploads/EvolutionofStCatharines.pdf

 

[King of Kensington]

Going quite a bit later than 1950, does anyone know where Barrie's southern boundary was prior to the big annexation of 1982?

 

[adma]

Going quite a bit later than 1950, does anyone know where Barrie's southern boundary was prior to the big annexation of 1982?

I think it might have gone as far as Big Bay Point or even Mapleview, already--that is, taking in the Molson's plant industrial zone. Methinks the 1982 annexation to the south was more lateral (i.e. swallowing up all of Holly and Painswick) than downward...