Lambton, Ontario

Lambton 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 Q1406913.

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

• Bosanquet wd (pop 1,093)
• Brooke wd (pop 511)
• Dawn (pop 556)
• Enniskillen wd (pop 238)
• Euphemia (pop 1,457)
• Islands
• Moore wd (pop 1,258)
• Plympton wd (pop 1,511)
• Sarnia wd (pop 1,384)
• Sombra wd (pop 738)
• Warwick wd (pop 2,069)

1861 census

• Bosanquet wd (pop 3,097)
• Brooke wd (pop 1,600)
• Dawn (pop 726)
• Enniskillen wd (pop 1,069)
• Euphemia (pop 2,109)
• Moore wd (pop 2,873)
• Plympton wd (pop 3,287)
• Sarnia wd (pop 1,560)
• Sarnia, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,091)
• Sombra and Indian Reserve (pop 3,116)
• Warwick wd (pop 3,388)

1871 census

• Bosanquet wd (pop 4,425)
• Brooke wd (pop 2,538)
• Enniskillen wd (pop 1,528)
• Moore wd (pop 3,998)
• Oil Springs, VL wd (pop 551)
• Petrolia, T-V wd (pop 2,651)
• Plympton wd (pop 5,259)
• Sarnia wd (pop 3,438)
• Sarnia, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,929)
• Warwick wd (pop 4,677)

1881 census

• Alvinston, VL wd (pop 830)
• Arkona, VL wd (pop 569)
• Bosanquet wd (pop 3,360)
• Brooke wd (pop 3,492)
• Enniskillen wd (pop 3,588)
• Forest, Village wd (pop 1,614)
• Moore wd (pop 5,146)
• Oil Springs, VL wd (pop 552)
• Petrolia, T-V wd (pop 3,465)
• Plympton wd (pop 4,495)
• Point Edward, VL wd (pop 1,293)
• Sarnia wd (pop 3,583)
• Sarnia, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,874)
• Thedford, VL wd (pop 685)
• Warwick wd (pop 4,052)
• Watford, VL wd (pop 1,132)
• Wyoming, VL (pop 886)

1921 census

• Alvinston, VL wd (pop 691)
• Arkona, VL wd (pop 420)
• Bosanquet wd (pop 2,332)
• Brooke wd (pop 2,703)
• Courtright, VL wd (pop 448)
• Dawn (pop 2,470)
• Enniskillen wd (pop 3,063)
• Euphemia (pop 1,543)
• Forest, T-V wd (pop 1,422)
• Indian reserves (pop 499)
• Moore wd (pop 3,611)
• Oil Springs, VL wd (pop 490)
• Petrolia, T-V wd (pop 3,148)
• Plympton wd (pop 2,829)
• Point Edward, VL wd (pop 1,258)
• Sarnia wd (pop 2,583)
• Sarnia, C wd (pop 14,877)
• Sombra wd (pop 3,274)
• Thedford, VL wd (pop 524)
• Warwick wd (pop 2,376)
• Watford, VL wd (pop 1,059)
• Wyoming, VL (pop 482)

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 Lambton East, Lambton West in 1891.
• Re-formed from Lambton East, Lambton West in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Lambton
• Wikidata: Q1406913
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambton_County
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Lambton

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.