Huron (1851–1861), Ontario
Huron (1851–1861) was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1851–1861 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 Q1638493.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1851 | 19,198 | 16 |
| 1861 | 51,954 | 19 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1851 census
- Ashfield wd (pop 907)
- Biddulph wd (pop 2,081)
- Colborno (pop 921)
- Goderich wd (pop 2,715)
- Goderich, Town of wd (pop 1,329)
- Grey, Morris & Turnbury
- Hay wd (pop 985)
- Howick wd
- Hullett wd (pop 955)
- McGillivray wd (pop 1,718)
- McKillop wd (pop 848)
- Stanley wd (pop 2,064)
- Stephen wd (pop 742)
- Tuckersmith wd (pop 1,727)
- Usborne wd (pop 1,484)
- Wawanosh (pop 722)
1861 census
- Ashfield wd (pop 2,617)
- Biddulph wd (pop 3,401)
- Clinton, Village wd (pop 1,000)
- Colborno (pop 1,868)
- Goderich wd (pop 3,582)
- Goderich, Town of wd (pop 3,227)
- Grey (pop 2,461)
- Hay wd (pop 3,054)
- Howick wd (pop 2,252)
- Hullett wd (pop 2,704)
- McGillivray wd (pop 3,921)
- McKillop wd (pop 2,425)
- Morris (pop 2,333)
- Stanley and Bayfield (pop 3,423)
- Stephen wd (pop 2,826)
- Tuckersmith wd (pop 3,226)
- Turnbury (pop 1,264)
- Usborne wd (pop 3,219)
- Wawanosh (pop 3,151)
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 Huron North, Huron South in 1871.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_Huron - Wikidata: Q1638493
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huron_County,_Ontario
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Huron_(Ontario)
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.