St. John City, New Brunswick

St. John City was a Census Division in New Brunswick as recorded in the 1881 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. NB 1921 census subdivision for City of Saint John (city portion only); historic city pre-amalgamation has no separate Wikidata entity.

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

1881 census

• St. John City, Kings ward-quartier (pop 3,070)
• St. John City, Queens ward-quartier (pop 3,432)
• St. John, Albert Ward—Quartier (pop 1,294)
• St. John, Brook’s, Ward—Quartier (pop 1,292)
• St. John, Dukis, Ward—Quartier (pop 2,967)
• St. John, Guy’s, Ward—Quartier (pop 1,978)
• St. John, Prince, Ward—Quartier (pop 5,132)
• St. John, Sydney, Ward—Quartier (pop 2,484)
• St. John, Wellington, Ward—Quartier (pop 4,478)

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 St. John in 1881.
• Merged into St. John in 1891.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NB_St._John_City

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.