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Census Division: Brant South | Province: Ontario | Years active: 1881–1901

Brant South, Ontario

Brant South was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1881–1901 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. ON federal electoral subdivision (South Brant); no 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.

Year	Population	CSDs
1881	21,975	5
1891	23,359	5
1901	26,707	5

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1881 census

Brantford W-O wd (pop 3,063)
Brantford, Town—Ville wd (pop 9,616)
Burford wd (pop 5,466)
Oakland wd (pop 939)
Tuscarora wd (pop 2,891)

1891 census

Brantford W-O wd (pop 2,802)
Brantford, City—Cité wd (pop 12,753)
Onondaga (pop 1,482)
Paris, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,094)
Tuscarora wd (pop 3,228)

1901 census

Brantford, City—Cité wd (pop 16,619)
Brantford, West—Ouest wd (pop 2,503)
Onondaga (pop 1,186)
Paris, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,229)
Tuscarora wd (pop 3,170)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

Re-formed from Brant, South or West—Sud ou West in 1881.
Merged into Brant (1911–1921) in 1911.
Split into Brantford in 1911.

Identifiers

HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Brant_South

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.