Hastings West, Ontario

Hastings West 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 (West Hastings); 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

• Belleville, Town—Ville wd (pop 7,305)
• Sidney wd (pop 5,264)
• Trenton, T-V wd (pop 1,796)

1881 census

• Belleville, C wd (pop 9,516)
• Sidney wd (pop 4,842)
• Trenton, T-V wd (pop 3,042)

1891 census

• Belleville, C wd (pop 9,916)
• Frankford, VL wd (pop 533)
• Sydney (pop 4,152)
• Trenton, T-V wd (pop 4,363)

1901 census

• Belleville, C wd (pop 9,117)
• Sydney wd (pop 4,438)
• Trenton, T-V wd (pop 4,217)

1911 census

• Bancroft vl wd (pop 625)
• Bancroft, VL wd (pop 625)
• Bangor & Wicklow (pop 767)
• Belleville c wd (pop 9,876)
• Faraday wd (pop 752)
• Herschell & McClure (pop 913)
• Huntingdon wd (pop 2,153)
• Marmora vl wd (pop 866)
• Marmora, VL wd (pop 866)
• Rawdon wd (pop 3,029)
• Stirling vl wd (pop 848)
• Stirling, VL wd (pop 848)
• Sydney wd (pop 4,335)
• Trenton, T-V wd (pop 3,988)
• Wollaston wd (pop 911)

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 Hastings (1851–1861) in 1871.
• Split off from Hastings North in 1911.
• Merged into Hastings (1921) in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Hastings_West

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.