St. John, New Brunswick

St. John 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 Q1786989.

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

• Lancaster (pop 4,821)
• Portland wd (pop 12,520)
• Saint Martin's wd (pop 2,410)
• Simonds wd (pop 3,564)
• St. John City, Kings ward-quartier (pop 3,785)
• St. John City, Queens ward-quartier (pop 4,985)
• St. John, Albert Ward—Quartier (pop 1,219)
• St. John, Brook’s, Ward—Quartier (pop 1,332)
• St. John, Dukis, Ward—Quartier (pop 4,253)
• St. John, Guy’s, Ward—Quartier (pop 1,982)
• St. John, Prince, Ward—Quartier (pop 4,976)
• St. John, Sydney, Ward—Quartier (pop 2,265)
• St. John, Wellington, Ward—Quartier (pop 4,008)

1881 census

• Lancaster (pop 4,333)
• Musquash wd (pop 998)
• Portland, Ward—Quartier No. 1 (pop 3,166)
• Portland, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (pop 3,797)
• Portland, Ward—Quartier No. 3 (pop 4,048)
• Portland, Ward—Quartier No. 4 (pop 3,215)
• Portland, Ward—Quartier No. 5 (pop 1,000)
• Saint Martin's wd (pop 2,558)
• Simonds wd (pop 3,724)

1891 census

• Lancaster (pop 4,211)
• Musquash wd (pop 783)
• Portland, Dufferin, Ward—Quartier (pop 3,964)
• Portland, Lansdowne, Ward—Quartier (pop 3,629)
• Portland, Lorne, Ward—Quartier (pop 3,112)
• Portland, Stanley, Ward—Quartier (pop 952)
• Portland, Victoria, Ward—Quartier (pop 3,338)
• Simonds wd (pop 3,066)
• St. Martins wd (pop 2,335)

1901 census

• Lancaster (pop 5,278)
• Musquash wd (pop 741)
• Simonds wd (pop 3,072)
• St. John City, Brooks ward-quartier (pop 1,574)
• St. John City, Dufferin ward-quartier (pop 4,100)
• St. John City, Guys ward-quartier (pop 2,856)
• St. John City, Kings ward-quartier (pop 2,364)
• St. John City, Lansdowne ward-quartier (pop 4,278)
• St. John City, Lorne ward-quartier (pop 3,256)
• St. John City, Queens ward-quartier (pop 3,571)
• St. John City, Stanley ward-quartier (pop 905)
• St. John City, Victoria ward-quartier (pop 3,263)
• St. John, Dukis, Ward—Quartier (pop 3,048)
• St. John, Prince, Ward—Quartier (pop 4,760)
• St. John, Sydney, Ward—Quartier (pop 2,286)
• St. John, Wellington, Ward—Quartier (pop 4,450)
• St. Martins wd (pop 1,957)

1911 census

• Lancaster (pop 5,886)
• Musquash wd (pop 660)
• Simonds wd
• St. John City, Brooks ward-quartier (pop 1,676)
• St. John City, Dufferin ward-quartier (pop 4,022)
• St. John City, Dukes ward-quartier (pop 2,879)
• St. John City, Guys ward-quartier (pop 2,999)
• St. John City, Kings ward-quartier (pop 2,038)
• St. John City, Lansdowne ward-quartier (pop 4,614)
• St. John City, Lorne ward-quartier (pop 4,229)
• St. John City, Queens ward-quartier (pop 3,409)
• St. John City, Stanley ward-quartier (pop 1,155)
• St. John City, Victoria ward-quartier (pop 3,659)
• St. John, Prince, Ward—Quartier (pop 4,850)
• St. John, Sydney, Ward—Quartier (pop 2,414)
• St. John, Wellington, Ward—Quartier (pop 4,567)
• St. Martins wd (pop 1,637)

1921 census

• Lancaster (pop 7,301)
• Musquash wd (pop 543)
• Simonds wd (pop 4,054)
• St. John, C wd (pop 47,166)
• St. Martins wd (pop 1,422)

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.
• Split into St. John City in 1881.
• Re-formed from St. John City in 1891.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NB_St._John
• Wikidata: Q1786989
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_John_County,_New_Brunswick
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Saint-Jean

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.