Grey North, Ontario

Grey North was a 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 (North Grey); 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

• Collingwood wd (pop 3,576)
• Derby wd (pop 1,946)
• Euphrasia wd (pop 2,899)
• Holland wd (pop 3,249)
• Keppel wd (pop 2,174)
• Owen Sound, C wd (pop 3,369)
• Sarawack (pop 680)
• St. Vincent wd (pop 4,974)
• Sullivan wd (pop 3,151)
• Sydenham wd (pop 4,011)

1881 census

• Brook, Village (pop 333)
• Derby wd (pop 2,363)
• Holland wd (pop 3,688)
• Keppel wd (pop 3,449)
• Owen Sound, C wd (pop 4,426)
• Sarawack (pop 639)
• Sullivan wd (pop 4,143)
• Sydenham wd (pop 4,293)

1891 census

• Derby wd (pop 2,200)
• Holland wd (pop 3,602)
• Keppel wd (pop 3,774)
• Owen Sound, C wd (pop 7,497)
• Sarawak wd (pop 1,201)
• Sullivan wd (pop 4,164)
• Sydenham wd (pop 3,903)

1901 census

• Derby wd (pop 2,146)
• Holland wd (pop 3,504)
• Keppel wd (pop 4,160)
• Owen Sound, C wd (pop 8,776)
• Sarawak wd (pop 1,362)
• Sullivan wd (pop 3,697)
• Sydenham wd (pop 3,406)

1911 census

• Derby wd (pop 1,930)
• Keppel wd (pop 2,730)
• Meaford, T-V wd (pop 2,811)
• Owen Sound, C wd (pop 12,558)
• Sarawak wd (pop 708)
• Shallow Lake, VL (pop 509)
• St. Vincent wd (pop 2,708)
• Sydenham wd (pop 3,037)

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 Grey in 1871.
• Merged into Grey in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Grey_North

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.