Lambton East, Ontario

Lambton East was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1891–1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. ON federal electoral subdivision (East Lambton); 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

1891 census

• Alvinston, VL wd (pop 1,006)
• Arkona, VL wd (pop 463)
• Bosanquet wd (pop 2,866)
• Brooke wd (pop 3,874)
• Enniskillen wd (pop 5,006)
• Oil Springs, VL wd (pop 1,138)
• Petrolia, T-V wd (pop 4,357)
• Thedford, VL wd (pop 616)
• Warwick wd (pop 3,644)
• Watford, VL wd (pop 1,299)

1901 census

• Alvinston, VL wd (pop 898)
• Arkona, VL wd (pop 468)
• Bosanquet wd (pop 2,862)
• Brooke wd (pop 3,678)
• Enniskillen wd (pop 4,745)
• Oil Springs, VL wd (pop 1,018)
• Petrolia, T-V wd (pop 4,135)
• Thedford, VL wd (pop 633)
• Warwick wd (pop 3,329)
• Watford, VL wd (pop 1,279)

1911 census

• Alvinston, VL wd (pop 806)
• Arkona, VL wd (pop 424)
• Bosanquet wd (pop 2,491)
• Brooke wd (pop 2,992)
• Enniskillen wd (pop 3,632)
• Euphemia (pop 1,846)
• Forest, T-V wd (pop 1,445)
• Oil Springs, VL wd (pop 646)
• Petrolia, T-V wd (pop 3,518)
• Thedford, VL wd (pop 559)
• Warwick wd (pop 2,772)
• Watford, VL wd (pop 1,092)

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 Lambton in 1891.
• Merged into Lambton in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Lambton_East

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.