Gloucester, New Brunswick

Gloucester was a Census Division in New Brunswick as recorded in the 1871–1921 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. This CD is grounded to Wikidata Q963112.

Population trajectory across census years

Aggregate population summed from constituent Census Subdivisions in this Census Division each year. Where the published 1851–1921 census volumes report a CD-level total, the figures should match within rounding; for cities split into wards, the per-CSD sum may diverge from the published CD aggregate.

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1871 census

• Bathurst wd (pop 4,469)
• Beresford wd (pop 3,275)
• Caraquette wd (pop 3,111)
• Inkerman wd (pop 1,550)
• New Bandon wd (pop 2,228)
• Saumarez wd (pop 2,162)
• Shippigan wd (pop 2,015)

1881 census

• Bathurst wd (pop 4,806)
• Beresford wd (pop 3,636)
• Caraquette wd (pop 3,837)
• Inkerman wd (pop 1,804)
• New Bandon wd (pop 2,390)
• Saumarez wd (pop 2,819)
• Shippigan wd (pop 2,322)

1891 census

• Bathurst wd (pop 4,815)
• Beresford wd (pop 4,301)
• Caraquette wd (pop 4,630)
• Inkerman wd (pop 2,008)
• New Bandon wd (pop 2,456)
• Saumarez wd (pop 2,633)
• Shippigan wd (pop 3,182)
• St. Isidore wd (pop 872)

1901 census

• Bathurst wd (pop 4,913)
• Beresford wd (pop 4,457)
• Caraquet wd (pop 4,074)
• Inkerman wd (pop 2,421)
• New Bandon wd (pop 2,571)
• Paquetteville wd (pop 1,341)
• Saumarez wd (pop 3,286)
• Shippigan wd (pop 3,786)
• St. Isidore wd (pop 1,087)

1911 census

• Bathurst wd (pop 5,248)
• Bathurst, T-V wd (pop 960)
• Beresford wd (pop 4,917)
• Caraquet wd (pop 4,621)
• Inkerman wd (pop 2,717)
• New Bandon wd (pop 2,595)
• Paquetteville wd (pop 1,576)
• Saumarez wd (pop 3,914)
• Shippigan wd (pop 4,732)
• St. Isidore wd (pop 1,382)

1921 census

• Bathurst wd (pop 5,115)
• Bathurst, T-V wd (pop 3,327)
• Beresford wd (pop 5,466)
• Caraquet wd (pop 5,215)
• Indian reserves (pop 7)
• Inkerman wd (pop 3,157)
• New Bandon wd (pop 2,718)
• Paquetteville wd (pop 2,075)
• Saumarez wd (pop 4,503)
• Shippigan wd (pop 5,291)
• St. Isidore wd (pop 1,810)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

• Split off from New Brunswick in 1871.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NB_Gloucester
• Wikidata: Q963112
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester_County,_New_Brunswick
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Gloucester_(Nouveau-Brunswick)

Sources

Census Division boundaries derived from the Canadian Peoples / TCP 1851–1921 Census Subdivision boundary files (NAME_CD_<year> attributes, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan). Constituent-CSD memberships use the P10_falls_within CIDOC-CRM relationships emitted by the spatial CIDOC builder. Wikidata grounding for Census Divisions performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.