Bothwell, Ontario

Bothwell was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1871–1901 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. ON federal electoral district (1867-1904), not a county; protocol excludes electoral districts.

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

• Bothwell, Town—Ville wd (pop 995)
• Camden (pop 4,095)
• Dawn (pop 1,116)
• Euphemia (pop 2,390)
• Howard (pop 4,512)
• Orford (pop 3,113)
• Sombra wd (pop 3,397)
• Zone (pop 1,083)

1881 census

• Bothwell wd (pop 965)
• Camden (pop 3,239)
• Dawn (pop 2,026)
• Dresden, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,979)
• Euphemia (pop 2,791)
• Howard (pop 3,962)
• Orford (pop 3,766)
• Ridgetown, Village wd (pop 1,538)
• Sombra wd (pop 4,601)
• Thamesville, VL wd (pop 740)
• Zone (pop 1,495)

1891 census

• Bothwell, Town—Ville wd (pop 897)
• Camden (pop 2,991)
• Chatham wd (pop 6,150)
• Dawn (pop 3,480)
• Dresden, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,058)
• Sombra wd (pop 4,207)
• Thamesville, VL wd (pop 798)
• Wallaceburg, T-V wd (pop 2,726)
• Walpole Island wd (pop 885)
• Zone (pop 1,401)

1901 census

• Bothwell, Town—Ville wd (pop 907)
• Camden (pop 2,811)
• Chatham wd (pop 6,049)
• Dawn (pop 3,659)
• Dresden, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,613)
• Sombra & Walpole Island (pop 5,231)
• Thamesville, VL wd (pop 864)
• Wallaceburg, T-V wd (pop 2,763)
• Zone (pop 1,326)

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 Kent (1851–1921) in 1871.
• Merged into Lambton West in 1911.
• Split into Kent East in 1911.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Bothwell

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.