Northumberland, New Brunswick

Northumberland 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 Q937673.

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

• Alnwick wd (pop 2,393)
• Blackville wd (pop 1,688)
• Blissfield wd (pop 757)
• Chatham wd (pop 4,203)
• Derby wd (pop 658)
• Glenelg wd (pop 1,393)
• Hardwicke wd (pop 1,003)
• Ludlow wd (pop 605)
• Nelson wd (pop 1,646)
• Newcastle wd (pop 3,584)
• Northesk wd (pop 2,186)

1881 census

• Alnwick wd (pop 2,646)
• Blackville wd (pop 2,065)
• Blissfield wd (pop 902)
• Chatham wd (pop 5,762)
• Derby wd (pop 870)
• Glenelg wd (pop 1,465)
• Hardwicke wd (pop 1,085)
• Ludlow wd (pop 750)
• Nelson wd (pop 2,724)
• Newcastle wd (pop 4,209)
• North Esk wd (pop 1,538)
• South Esk wd (pop 1,093)

1891 census

• Alnwick wd (pop 2,960)
• Blackville wd (pop 2,066)
• Blissfield wd (pop 894)
• Chatham wd (pop 5,644)
• Derby wd (pop 871)
• Glenelg wd (pop 1,382)
• Hardwicke wd (pop 1,170)
• Ludlow wd (pop 805)
• Nelson wd (pop 1,907)
• Newcastle wd (pop 4,006)
• North Esk wd (pop 1,586)
• Rogersville wd (pop 1,379)
• South Esk wd (pop 1,043)

1901 census

• Alnwick wd (pop 3,334)
• Blackville wd (pop 2,439)
• Blissfield wd (pop 997)
• Chatham wd (pop 6,624)
• Derby wd (pop 847)
• Glenelg wd (pop 1,337)
• Hardwicke wd (pop 1,299)
• Ludlow wd (pop 993)
• Nelson wd (pop 1,948)
• Newcastle wd (pop 4,130)
• North Esk wd (pop 1,664)
• Rogersville wd (pop 1,797)
• South Esk wd (pop 1,134)

1911 census

• Alnwick wd (pop 3,893)
• Blackville wd (pop 2,591)
• Blissfield wd (pop 1,040)
• Chatham wd (pop 2,088)
• Chatham, T-V wd (pop 4,666)
• Derby wd (pop 991)
• Glenelg wd (pop 1,294)
• Hardwicke wd (pop 1,476)
• Ludlow wd (pop 1,100)
• Nelson wd (pop 1,985)
• Newcastle wd (pop 1,642)
• Newcastle, T-V wd (pop 2,945)
• North Esk wd (pop 1,789)
• Rogersville wd (pop 2,390)
• South Esk wd (pop 1,304)

1921 census

• Alnwick wd (pop 4,333)
• Blackville wd (pop 2,794)
• Blissfield wd (pop 1,304)
• Chatham wd (pop 2,289)
• Chatham, T-V wd (pop 4,506)
• Derby wd (pop 987)
• Glenelg wd (pop 1,266)
• Hardwicke wd (pop 1,787)
• Indian reserves (pop 411)
• Ludlow wd (pop 1,292)
• Nelson wd (pop 2,047)
• Newcastle wd (pop 1,784)
• Newcastle, T-V wd (pop 3,507)
• North Esk wd (pop 1,780)
• Rogersville wd (pop 2,573)
• South Esk wd (pop 1,325)

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_Northumberland
• Wikidata: Q937673
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumberland_County,_New_Brunswick
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Northumberland_(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.