Bruce North, Ontario
Bruce North 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. ON federal electoral subdivision (North Bruce); 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1871 | 17,183 | 8 |
| 1881 | 24,971 | 13 |
| 1891 | 22,530 | 13 |
| 1901 | 21,297 | 12 |
| 1911 | 23,783 | 16 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1871 census
- Albemarle and Eastnor (pop 678)
- Amabel wd (pop 1,805)
- Arran (pop 3,780)
- Bruce wd (pop 3,764)
- Elderslie wd (pop 3,699)
- Lindsay and Bury (pop 20)
- Saugeen wd (pop 2,579)
- Southampton, Village wd (pop 858)
1881 census
- Albermarle (pop 1,505)
- Amabel wd (pop 3,046)
- Arran (pop 3,512)
- Bruce wd (pop 4,236)
- Chesley, Village wd (pop 893)
- Eastnor, Lindsay, St. Edmund's (pop 1,364)
- Elderslie wd (pop 3,273)
- Paisley, Village wd (pop 1,154)
- Port Elgin, Village wd (pop 1,400)
- Saugeen wd (pop 2,090)
- Southampton, Village wd (pop 1,141)
- Tara, Village (pop 561)
- Wiarton, Village wd (pop 796)
1891 census
- Albemarle & Cape Croker I R (pop 1,819)
- Amabel wd (pop 3,890)
- Arran (pop 2,913)
- Chesley, Village wd (pop 1,437)
- Eastnor wd (pop 1,484)
- Elderslie wd (pop 3,047)
- Lindsay wd (pop 550)
- Paisley, Village wd (pop 1,328)
- Port Elgin, Village wd (pop 1,659)
- Southampton, Village wd (pop 1,437)
- St. Edmunds wd (pop 287)
- Tara, Village (pop 695)
- Wiarton, Village wd (pop 1,984)
1901 census
- Albemarle & Cape Croker I R (pop 1,962)
- Amabel wd (pop 3,587)
- Arran (pop 2,562)
- Chesley, Village wd (pop 1,734)
- Eastnor wd (pop 1,830)
- Elderslie wd (pop 2,458)
- Lindsay wd (pop 751)
- Paisley, Village wd (pop 1,086)
- Southampton, Village wd (pop 1,636)
- St. Edmunds wd (pop 623)
- Tara, Village (pop 625)
- Wiarton, Village wd (pop 2,443)
1911 census
- Albemarle & Cape Croker I R (pop 1,615)
- Amabel wd (pop 2,795)
- Arran (pop 2,091)
- Bruce wd (pop 2,398)
- Eastnor wd (pop 1,642)
- Hepworth, VL (pop 309)
- Kincardine wd (pop 2,343)
- Kincardine, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,956)
- Lindsay wd (pop 699)
- Port Elgin, Village wd (pop 1,235)
- Saugeen wd (pop 1,422)
- Southampton, Village wd (pop 1,685)
- St. Edmunds wd (pop 434)
- Tara, Village (pop 551)
- Tiverton, Village (pop 342)
- Wiarton, Village wd (pop 2,266)
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 Bruce (1851–1861) in 1871.
- Re-formed from Bruce West in 1911.
- Merged into Bruce (1921) in 1921.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_Bruce_North
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.