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Census Division: Lambton West | Province: Ontario | Years active: 1891–1911

Lambton West, Ontario

Lambton West 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 (West 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.

Year	Population	CSDs
1891	23,446	7
1901	22,386	7
1911	29,109	9

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1891 census

Forest, T-V wd (pop 2,057)
Moore wd (pop 5,079)
Plympton wd (pop 3,929)
Point Edward, VL wd (pop 1,881)
Sarnia wd (pop 2,937)
Sarnia, Town—Ville wd (pop 6,692)
Wyoming, VL (pop 871)

1901 census

Forest, T-V wd (pop 1,553)
Moore wd (pop 4,795)
Plympton wd (pop 3,621)
Point Edward, VL wd (pop 780)
Sarnia wd (pop 2,632)
Sarnia, Town—Ville wd (pop 8,176)
Wyoming, VL (pop 829)

1911 census

Courtright, VL wd (pop 375)
Dawn (pop 2,930)
Moore wd (pop 3,771)
Plympton wd (pop 3,206)
Point Edward, VL wd (pop 874)
Sarnia wd (pop 2,663)
Sarnia t-v wd (pop 9,947)
Sombra & Walpole Is (pop 4,774)
Wyoming, VL (pop 569)

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.
Re-formed from Bothwell in 1911.
Merged into Lambton in 1921.

Identifiers

HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Lambton_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.