Grey, Ontario

Grey 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 Q1546177.

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

1851 census

• Artemesia wd (pop 733)
• Bentinck wd (pop 1,272)
• Collingwood wd (pop 545)
• Derby wd (pop 471)
• Egremont wd (pop 665)
• Euphrasia wd (pop 603)
• Glenelg wd (pop 1,250)
• Holland wd (pop 954)
• Indian Territory (pop 306)
• Melancthon & Proton (pop 450)
• Normanby (pop 539)
• Osprey wd (pop 486)
• St. Vincent wd (pop 1,601)
• Sullivan wd (pop 538)
• Sydenham wd (pop 2,432)

1861 census

• Artemesia wd (pop 2,575)
• Bentinck wd (pop 3,331)
• Collingwood wd (pop 1,492)
• Derby wd (pop 1,243)
• Egremont wd (pop 2,934)
• Euphrasia wd (pop 1,472)
• Glenelg wd (pop 3,065)
• Holland wd (pop 2,317)
• Keppel, Sarawak and Brook (pop 592)
• Melancthon wd (pop 1,359)
• Normanby (pop 3,963)
• Osprey wd (pop 2,201)
• Owen Sound, Town of wd (pop 2,216)
• Proton wd (pop 1,240)
• St. Vincent wd (pop 2,993)
• Sullivan wd (pop 1,736)
• Sydenham wd (pop 3,021)

1921 census

• Artemesia wd (pop 2,430)
• Bentinck wd (pop 2,504)
• Chatsworth, VL wd (pop 332)
• Collingwood wd (pop 2,807)
• Derby wd (pop 1,554)
• Dundalk, VL wd (pop 675)
• Durham, T-V wd (pop 1,494)
• Egremont wd (pop 2,505)
• Euphrasia wd (pop 2,433)
• Flesherton, VL wd (pop 422)
• Glenelg wd (pop 1,743)
• Hanover, T-V wd (pop 2,781)
• Holland wd (pop 2,213)
• Keppel wd (pop 2,401)
• Markdale, VL wd (pop 882)
• Meaford, T-V wd (pop 2,650)
• Neustadt, VL wd (pop 422)
• Normandy (pop 3,038)
• Osprey wd (pop 2,205)
• Owen Sound, C wd (pop 12,190)
• Proton wd (pop 2,382)
• Sarawak wd (pop 600)
• Shallow Lake, VL (pop 362)
• St. Vincent wd (pop 2,240)
• Sullivan wd (pop 2,356)
• Sydenham wd (pop 2,610)
• Thornbury, T-V (pop 820)

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 into Grey North, Grey South in 1871.
• Re-formed from Grey East, Grey North, Grey South in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Grey
• Wikidata: Q1546177
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_County
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Grey

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.