Elgin East, Ontario

Elgin East was an 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 (East Elgin); 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.

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1871 census

• Bayham wd (pop 4,892)
• Dorchester S (pop 2,071)
• Malahide wd (pop 5,554)
• Saint Thomas, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,197)
• Vienna, VL (pop 593)
• Yarmouth (pop 5,563)

1881 census

• Aylmer, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,540)
• Bayham wd (pop 4,649)
• Dorchester S (pop 1,844)
• Malahide wd (pop 4,415)
• Port Stanley, VL wd (pop 674)
• Springfield, VL (pop 555)
• St. Thomas, Town—Ville wd (pop 8,367)
• Vienna, VL (pop 528)
• Yarmouth (pop 5,575)

1891 census

• Aylmer, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,166)
• Bayham wd (pop 3,856)
• Malahide wd (pop 3,851)
• Port Stanley, VL wd (pop 616)
• St. Thomas, C wd (pop 10,366)
• Vienna, VL (pop 398)
• Yarmouth (pop 5,471)

1901 census

• Aylmer, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,204)
• Bayham wd (pop 3,771)
• Malahide wd (pop 3,795)
• Port Stanley, VL wd (pop 552)
• St. Thomas, C wd (pop 11,485)
• Vienna, VL (pop 352)
• Yarmouth (pop 5,089)

1911 census

• Aylmer, T-V wd (pop 2,102)
• Bayham wd (pop 3,450)
• Dorchester S (pop 1,642)
• Malahide wd (pop 3,509)
• Port Stanley, VL wd (pop 891)
• Springfield, VL (pop 454)
• Vienna, VL (pop 332)
• Yarmouth (pop 5,217)

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 Elgin in 1871.
• Merged into Elgin in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Elgin_East

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.