Bruce (1851–1861), Ontario
Bruce (1851–1861) was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1851–1861 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 Q991601.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1851 | 2,837 | 11 |
| 1861 | 27,499 | 15 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1851 census
- Arran (pop 149)
- Brant (pop 621)
- Bruce wd (pop 100)
- Carrick
- Culross
- Elderslie wd (pop 14)
- Grenock (pop 244)
- Huron wd (pop 236)
- Kincardine wd (pop 1,149)
- Kinlas (pop 47)
- Saugeen wd (pop 277)
1861 census
- Albermarle (pop 54)
- Amabel wd (pop 182)
- Arran (pop 2,553)
- Brant (pop 3,123)
- Carrick (pop 3,163)
- Culross (pop 2,266)
- Elderslie wd (pop 1,774)
- Grenock (pop 1,847)
- Huron wd (pop 2,429)
- Kincaraio (pop 2,906)
- Kincardine, Town—Ville wd (pop 981)
- Kinlas (pop 1,842)
- Pence (pop 2,250)
- Saugeen wd (pop 1,520)
- Southampton, T-V wd (pop 609)
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 into Bruce North, Bruce South (1871–1881) in 1871.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_Bruce - Wikidata: Q991601
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_County
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Bruce
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.