Frontenac, Ontario
Frontenac was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1851–1921 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 Q739928.
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 | 19,150 | 8 |
| 1861 | 27,347 | 16 |
| 1871 | 16,310 | 6 |
| 1881 | 14,993 | 7 |
| 1891 | 13,445 | 7 |
| 1901 | 12,008 | 7 |
| 1911 | 20,764 | 18 |
| 1921 | 44,494 | 18 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1851 census
- Bedford wd (pop 1,118)
- Hinchinbrook (pop 364)
- Kingston wd (pop 5,235)
- Loughborough wd (pop 2,003)
- Pittsburgh (pop 3,258)
- Portland wd (pop 2,388)
- Storrington (pop 2,130)
- Wolfe Island wd (pop 2,654)
1861 census
- Bairie and Clarendon (pop 463)
- Bedford wd (pop 1,691)
- Forts Henry and Frederick, Penitentiary and lunatic Asylum (pop 1,369)
- Han (pop 760)
- Kennebec (pop 429)
- Kingston wd (pop 4,587)
- Loughborough wd (pop 2,452)
- Miller and Canonto (pop 68)
- Olden wd (pop 435)
- Oso wd (pop 349)
- Palmerston wd (pop 127)
- Pittsburgh (pop 4,394)
- Portland wd (pop 2,836)
- Portsmouth, Village wd (pop 892)
- Storrington (pop 2,894)
- Wolfe Island wd (pop 3,601)
1871 census
- Garden Island, Village (pop 762)
- Kingston wd (pop 4,101)
- Pittsburg, Howe Island (pop 4,126)
- Portsmouth, Village wd (pop 1,702)
- Storrington (pop 2,882)
- Wolfe Island wd (pop 2,737)
1881 census
- Garden Island, Village (pop 495)
- Howe Island wd (pop 479)
- Kingston wd (pop 3,739)
- Pittsburg wd (pop 3,352)
- Portsmouth, Village wd (pop 1,734)
- Storrington (pop 2,811)
- Wolfe Island wd (pop 2,383)
1891 census
- Garden Island, Village (pop 412)
- Howe Island wd (pop 422)
- Kingston wd (pop 3,349)
- Pittsburg wd (pop 3,000)
- Portsmouth, Village wd (pop 1,974)
- Storrington (pop 2,285)
- Wolfe Island wd (pop 2,003)
1901 census
- Garden Island, Village (pop 242)
- Howe Island wd (pop 361)
- Kingston wd (pop 3,176)
- Pittsburg wd (pop 2,544)
- Portsmouth, Village wd (pop 1,827)
- Storrington (pop 2,062)
- Wolfe Island wd (pop 1,796)
1911 census
- Barrie (pop 486)
- Bedford wd (pop 1,421)
- Canonto N (pop 208)
- Canonto S (pop 377)
- Clarendon & Miller (pop 841)
- Garden Island vl (pop 150)
- Garden Island, Village (pop 150)
- Howe Island wd (pop 408)
- Kennebec (pop 1,045)
- Kingston wd (pop 2,939)
- Loughborough wd (pop 2,072)
- Olden wd (pop 990)
- Oso wd (pop 1,214)
- Palmerston wd (pop 361)
- Pittsburg wd (pop 2,243)
- Portland wd (pop 2,341)
- Storrington (pop 1,906)
- Wolfe Island wd (pop 1,612)
1921 census
- Barrie (pop 398)
- Bedford wd (pop 1,247)
- Canonto N } Canonto S (pop 144)
- Clarendon & Miller (pop 732)
- Hinchinbrook (pop 1,373)
- Howe Island wd (pop 274)
- Kennebec (pop 928)
- Kingston wd (pop 2,867)
- Kingston, C wd (pop 21,753)
- Loughborough wd (pop 1,983)
- Olden wd (pop 891)
- Oso wd (pop 1,035)
- Palmerston wd (pop 639)
- Pittsburg wd (pop 2,299)
- Portland wd (pop 2,282)
- Portsmouth, VL wd (pop 2,351)
- Storrington (pop 1,719)
- Wolfe Island & Garden Island wd (pop 1,579)
Lineage
Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.
- Merged into Addington (1871–1901) in 1871.
- Split off from Addington (1871–1901) in 1911.
- Re-formed from Kingston in 1921.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_Frontenac - Wikidata: Q739928
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontenac_County
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Frontenac_(Ontario)
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.