Kent, New Brunswick
Kent 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 Q2542413.
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.
| Year | Population | CSDs |
|---|---|---|
| 1871 | 19,101 | 9 |
| 1881 | 22,618 | 9 |
| 1891 | 23,845 | 10 |
| 1901 | 23,958 | 10 |
| 1911 | 24,376 | 13 |
| 1921 | 23,916 | 14 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1871 census
- Carleton wd (pop 1,071)
- Dundas wd (pop 3,347)
- Harcourt wd (pop 233)
- Huskisson wd
- Richibucto wd (pop 3,853)
- St. Louis wd (pop 1,983)
- St. Mary's (pop 2,087)
- Weldford wd (pop 3,302)
- Wellington wd (pop 3,225)
1881 census
- Acadieville wd (pop 778)
- Carleton wd (pop 1,232)
- Dundas wd (pop 3,383)
- Harcourt & Huskisson (pop 973)
- Richibucto wd (pop 4,079)
- St. Louis wd (pop 2,135)
- St. Mary's (pop 2,904)
- Weldford wd (pop 3,615)
- Wellington wd (pop 3,519)
1891 census
- Acadieville wd (pop 1,105)
- Carleton wd (pop 1,180)
- Dundas wd (pop 3,294)
- Harcourt wd (pop 1,309)
- Richibucto wd (pop 3,986)
- St. Louis wd (pop 2,120)
- St. Mary (pop 2,389)
- St. Paul wd (pop 1,040)
- Weldford wd (pop 3,561)
- Wellington wd (pop 3,861)
1901 census
- Acadieville wd (pop 1,256)
- Carleton wd (pop 1,132)
- Dundas wd (pop 3,453)
- Harcourt wd (pop 1,104)
- Richibucto wd (pop 3,879)
- St. Louis wd (pop 2,278)
- St. Mary (pop 2,449)
- St. Paul wd (pop 1,141)
- Weldford wd (pop 3,317)
- Wellington wd (pop 3,949)
1911 census
- Acadieville wd (pop 1,281)
- Carleton wd (pop 1,139)
- Dundas wd (pop 3,281)
- Harcourt wd (pop 1,090)
- NO DATA
- Richibucto wd (pop 2,436)
- Richibucto, T-V wd (pop 871)
- St. Charles wd (pop 1,265)
- St. Louis wd (pop 1,780)
- St. Mary (pop 2,435)
- St. Paul wd (pop 1,391)
- Weldford wd (pop 3,297)
- Wellington wd (pop 4,110)
1921 census
- Acadieville wd (pop 1,367)
- Carleton wd (pop 1,207)
- Dundas wd (pop 3,389)
- Harcourt wd (pop 1,115)
- Indian reserves (pop 151)
- NO DATA
- Richibucto wd (pop 1,801)
- Richibucto, T-V wd (pop 1,158)
- St. Charles wd (pop 1,354)
- St. Louis wd (pop 1,862)
- St. Mary (pop 2,342)
- St. Paul wd (pop 1,215)
- Welford wd (pop 2,761)
- Wellington wd (pop 4,194)
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_Kent - Wikidata: Q2542413
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_County,_New_Brunswick
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Kent_(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.