Haldimand (1851–1891), Ontario

Haldimand (1851–1891) was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1851–1891 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 Q385346.

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

• Canboro (pop 1,151)
• Cayuga S (pop 2,013)
• Cayuga, North (pop 824)
• Dunn wd (pop 828)
• Moulton wd (pop 1,984)
• Oneida wd (pop 2,817)
• Rainham wd (pop 1,618)
• Seneca wd (pop 3,636)
• Sherbrooke wd (pop 334)
• Walpole wd (pop 3,583)

1861 census

• Canboro (pop 1,252)
• Cayuga S (pop 938)
• Cayuga, North (pop 2,919)
• Dunn wd (pop 955)
• Dunnville, T-V (pop 1,268)
• Moulton and Sherbrooke (pop 1,791)
• Oneida wd (pop 3,050)
• Rainham wd (pop 2,116)
• Seneca wd (pop 4,577)
• Walpole wd (pop 4,842)

1871 census

• Caledonia, Village wd (pop 1,246)
• Cayuga N (pop 2,012)
• Cayuga S (pop 972)
• Cayuga, VL wd (pop 803)
• Dunn wd (pop 1,049)
• Oneida wd (pop 3,183)
• Rainham wd (pop 2,067)
• Seneca wd (pop 3,282)
• Walpole wd (pop 5,477)

1881 census

• Caledonia, Village wd (pop 1,242)
• Cayuga N (pop 2,109)
• Cayuga S (pop 959)
• Cayuga, VL wd (pop 830)
• Oneida wd (pop 2,863)
• Rainham wd (pop 2,217)
• Seneca wd (pop 2,545)
• Walpole wd (pop 5,854)

1891 census

• Caledonia, Village wd (pop 968)
• Cayuga N (pop 1,893)
• Cayuga, VL wd (pop 822)
• Hagersville, VL wd (pop 1,061)
• Oneida wd (pop 2,400)
• Rainham wd (pop 2,010)
• Seneca wd (pop 2,231)
• Walpole wd (pop 4,922)

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 Haldimand & Monok in 1901.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Haldimand
• Wikidata: Q385346
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldimand_County
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Haldimand

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.