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Census Division: Hastings West | Province: Ontario | Years active: 1871–1911

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.

Year	Population	CSDs
1871	14,365	3
1881	17,400	3
1891	18,964	4
1901	17,772	3
1911	31,402	15

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1871 census

Belleville, C wd (pop 7,305)
Sidney wd (pop 5,264)
Trenton, Village wd (pop 1,796)

1881 census

Belleville, C wd (pop 9,516)
Sidney wd (pop 4,842)
Trenton, Village wd (pop 3,042)

1891 census

Belleville, C wd (pop 9,916)
Frankford, VL wd (pop 533)
Sydney (pop 4,152)
Trenton, Village wd (pop 4,363)

1901 census

Belleville, C wd (pop 9,117)
Sydney (pop 4,438)
Trenton, Village wd (pop 4,217)

1911 census

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

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.