Bruce South (1871–1881), Ontario
Bruce South (1871–1881) was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1871–1881 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 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 | 31,332 | 8 |
| 1881 | 39,803 | 12 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1871 census
- Brant (pop 5,994)
- Carrick (pop 5,005)
- Culross (pop 3,839)
- Greenock (pop 2,981)
- Huron wd (pop 4,079)
- Kincardine wd (pop 4,097)
- Kincardine, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,907)
- Kinloss wd (pop 3,430)
1881 census
- Brant (pop 5,423)
- Carrick (pop 5,909)
- Culross (pop 3,807)
- Greenock (pop 3,751)
- Huron wd (pop 5,175)
- Kincardine wd (pop 4,506)
- Kincardine, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,876)
- Kinloss wd (pop 3,628)
- Lucknow, Village wd (pop 718)
- Teeswater, VL wd (pop 861)
- Tiverton, VL (pop 545)
- Walkerton, T-V wd (pop 2,604)
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.
- Split into Bruce East, Bruce West in 1891.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_Bruce_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.