Brockville, Ontario

Brockville was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1871–1911 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 Q34047.

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

• Brockville, Centre Ward—Quartier (pop 1,912)
• Brockville, East Ward—Quartier (pop 1,483)
• Brockville, West Ward—Quartier (pop 1,707)
• Elizabethtown (pop 5,373)

1881 census

• Brockville Town, North Ward—Quartier Nord (pop 1,683)
• Brockville Town, South Ward—Quartier Sud (pop 1,109)
• Brockville, Centre Ward—Quartier (pop 1,307)
• Brockville, East Ward—Quartier (pop 1,707)
• Brockville, West Ward—Quartier (pop 1,803)
• Elizabethtown (pop 4,905)

1891 census

• Brockville Town, North Ward—Quartier Nord (pop 1,766)
• Brockville Town, South Ward—Quartier Sud (pop 1,179)
• Brockville, Centre Ward—Quartier (pop 1,455)
• Brockville, East Ward—Quartier (pop 2,060)
• Brockville, West Ward—Quartier (pop 2,331)
• Elizabethtown (pop 4,726)
• Kitley (pop 2,336)

1901 census

• Brockville Town, North Ward—Quartier Nord (pop 1,731)
• Brockville Town, South Ward—Quartier Sud (pop 1,256)
• Brockville, Centre Ward—Quartier (pop 1,513)
• Brockville, East Ward—Quartier (pop 2,165)
• Brockville, West Ward—Quartier (pop 2,275)
• Elizabethtown (pop 4,872)
• Kitley (pop 2,089)

1911 census

• Athens vl wd (pop 802)
• Brockville t-v wd (pop 9,374)
• Elizabethtown (pop 4,673)
• Yonge & Escott front (pop 2,537)
• Yonge & Escott rear (pop 1,145)

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 Leeds (1851–1861) in 1871.
• Split off from Leeds South in 1911.
• Merged into Leeds (1911–1921) in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Brockville
• Wikidata: Q34047
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockville
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockville_(Ontario)

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.