Essex South, Ontario

Essex South was an Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1891–1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. ON federal electoral subdivision (South Essex); 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

1891 census

• Amherstburg, T-V wd (pop 2,279)
• Anderdon (pop 2,205)
• Colchester N (pop 1,720)
• Colchester S wd (pop 2,827)
• Essex Centre, Village (pop 1,709)
• Gosfield (pop 4,071)
• Kingsville, T-V wd (pop 1,335)
• Leamington, T-V wd (pop 1,910)
• Malden wd (pop 1,573)
• Mersea wd (pop 3,788)
• Pelee Island wd (pop 605)

1901 census

• Amherstburg, T-V wd (pop 2,222)
• Anderdon (pop 2,071)
• Colchester S wd (pop 2,763)
• Colchester, North—Nord (pop 2,145)
• Essex, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,391)
• Gosfield, North—Nord (pop 1,999)
• Gosfield, South—Sud (pop 2,417)
• Kingsville, T-V wd (pop 1,537)
• Leamington, T-V wd (pop 2,451)
• Malden wd (pop 1,489)
• Mersea wd (pop 4,172)
• Pelee Island wd (pop 669)

1911 census

• Amherstburg, T-V wd (pop 2,560)
• Anderdon (pop 1,981)
• Colchester N (pop 1,892)
• Colchester S wd (pop 2,802)
• Essex, T-V wd (pop 1,353)
• Gosfield N (pop 1,955)
• Gosfield S (pop 2,412)
• Kingsville, T-V wd (pop 1,427)
• Leamington, T-V wd (pop 2,652)
• Malden wd (pop 1,371)
• Mersea wd (pop 4,081)
• Pelee Island wd (pop 830)
• Tilbury N (pop 2,075)
• Tilbury t-v part
• Tilbury W-O (pop 1,744)

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 Essex in 1891.
• Merged into Essex in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Essex_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.