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Census Division: Durham West | Province: Ontario | Years active: 1871–1901

Durham West, Ontario

Durham West was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1871–1901 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. ON federal electoral subdivision (West Durham); 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	18,316	5
1881	17,555	5
1891	15,374	5
1901	13,106	5

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1871 census

Bowmanville, T-V wd (pop 3,034)
Cartwright (pop 2,514)
Clarke (pop 5,728)
Darlington (pop 5,931)
Newcastle, VL wd (pop 1,109)

1881 census

Bowmanville, T-V wd (pop 3,504)
Cartwright (pop 2,357)
Clarke (pop 5,169)
Darlington (pop 5,465)
Newcastle, VL wd (pop 1,060)

1891 census

Bowmanville, T-V wd (pop 3,377)
Cartwright (pop 2,026)
Clarke (pop 4,427)
Darlington (pop 4,757)
Newcastle, VL wd (pop 787)

1901 census

Bowmanville, T-V wd (pop 2,731)
Cartwright (pop 1,768)
Clarke (pop 3,788)
Darlington (pop 4,174)
Newcastle, VL wd (pop 645)

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 Durham in 1871.
Merged into Durham in 1911.

Identifiers

HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Durham_West

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.