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Census Division: Elgin West | Province: Ontario | Years active: 1871–1911

Elgin West, Ontario

Elgin West 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 (West 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.

Year	Population	CSDs
1871	12,796	3
1881	14,214	3
1891	23,925	7
1901	23,195	7
1911	26,715	7

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1871 census

Aldborough wd (pop 3,506)
Dunwich wd (pop 3,731)
Southwold wd (pop 5,559)

1881 census

Aldborough wd (pop 4,718)
Dunwich wd (pop 4,290)
Southwold wd (pop 5,206)

1891 census

Aldborough wd (pop 5,299)
Dunwich wd (pop 3,663)
Dutton, VL wd (pop 838)
Howard (pop 3,626)
Orford (pop 3,479)
Ridgetown, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,254)
Southwold wd (pop 4,766)

1901 census

Aldborough wd (pop 5,341)
Dunwich wd (pop 3,658)
Dutton, VL wd (pop 863)
Howard (pop 3,243)
Orford (pop 3,347)
Ridgetown, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,405)
Southwold wd (pop 4,338)

1911 census

Aldborough wd (pop 3,278)
Dunwich wd (pop 3,198)
Dutton, VL wd (pop 836)
Rodney, VL (pop 676)
Southwold wd (pop 3,933)
St. Thomas, C wd (pop 14,054)
West Lorne, VL wd (pop 740)

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_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.