Sunbury (1871–1891), New Brunswick
Sunbury (1871–1891) was a Census Division in New Brunswick as recorded in the 1871–1891 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 Q543098.
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 | 6,824 | 6 |
| 1881 | 6,651 | 7 |
| 1891 | 5,762 | 7 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1871 census
- Blissville wd (pop 1,929)
- Burton wd (pop 1,830)
- Lincoln wd (pop 845)
- Maugerville wd (pop 569)
- Northfield wd (pop 660)
- Sheffield wd (pop 991)
1881 census
- Blissville wd (pop 894)
- Burton wd (pop 1,677)
- Gladstone wd (pop 1,034)
- Lincoln wd (pop 917)
- Maugerville wd (pop 548)
- Northfield wd (pop 687)
- Sheffield wd (pop 894)
1891 census
- Blissville wd (pop 764)
- Burton wd (pop 1,455)
- Gladstone wd (pop 910)
- Lincoln wd (pop 841)
- Maugerville wd (pop 475)
- Northfield wd (pop 603)
- Sheffield wd (pop 714)
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.
- Merged into Sunbury & Queens in 1901.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_NB_Sunbury - Wikidata: Q543098
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbury_County,_New_Brunswick
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Sunbury
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.