Kent (1851–1921), Ontario

Kent (1851–1921) 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 Q6391659.

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

• Camden & Zone (pop 1,434)
• Chatham wd (pop 1,768)
• Chatham, Town of wd (pop 2,070)
• Dover East & Dover West (pop 1,723)
• Harwich (pop 2,627)
• Howard & Orford (pop 4,364)
• Raleigh (pop 2,460)
• Romney & Tilbury East (pop 1,023)

1861 census

• Camden and Gore (pop 2,744)
• Chatham and Gore (pop 3,585)
• Chatham, Town of wd (pop 4,466)
• Dover (pop 2,656)
• Harwich (pop 4,556)
• Howard (pop 3,976)
• Orford (pop 2,554)
• Raleigh (pop 3,750)
• Romney (pop 470)
• Tilbury East (pop 1,267)
• Zone (pop 1,159)

1921 census

• Blenheim, T-V wd (pop 1,565)
• Bothwell, T-V wd (pop 633)
• Camden (pop 2,133)
• Chatham (pop 5,766)
• Chatham, C wd (pop 13,256)
• Dover E & W (pop 4,345)
• Dresden, T-V wd (pop 1,339)
• Erie Beach, VL (pop 28)
• Erieau, VL wd (pop 205)
• Harwich (pop 4,952)
• Highgate, VL (pop 394)
• Howard (pop 2,897)
• Indian reserves (pop 1,011)
• Orford (pop 2,032)
• Raleigh (pop 4,343)
• Ramney (pop 1,563)
• Ridgetown, T-V wd (pop 1,855)
• Thamesville, VL wd (pop 800)
• Tilbury (pt), T-V wd (pop 1,123)
• Tilbury E (pop 3,197)
• Wallaceburg, T-V wd (pop 4,006)
• Wheatley, VL wd (pop 378)
• Zone (pop 905)

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 Bothwell, Kent (1871–1911) in 1871.
• Re-formed from Kent (1871–1911), Kent East in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Kent
• Wikidata: Q6391659
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_County,_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.