Lanark North, Ontario

Lanark North was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1871–1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. ON federal electoral subdivision (North Lanark); 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

1871 census

• Almonte, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,080)
• Dalhousie, Sherbrooke, North Lavant (pop 2,295)
• Darling wd (pop 801)
• Lanark wd (pop 2,270)
• Lanark, Village wd (pop 740)
• Pakenham wd (pop 2,426)
• Ramsay (pop 3,218)

1881 census

• Almonte, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,684)
• Dalhousie, Sherbrooke, North Lavant (pop 2,528)
• Darling wd (pop 767)
• Lanark wd (pop 2,029)
• Lanark, Village wd (pop 752)
• Pakenham wd (pop 2,284)
• Ramsay (pop 2,899)

1891 census

• Almonte, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,068)
• Dalhousie & Sherbrooke, North—Nord (pop 2,142)
• Darling wd (pop 739)
• Fitzroy wd (pop 2,940)
• Huntley wd (pop 2,321)
• Lanark wd (pop 1,904)
• Lanark, Village wd (pop 859)
• Lavant wd (pop 679)
• Pakenham wd (pop 2,007)
• Ramsay (pop 2,601)

1901 census

• Almonte, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,023)
• Dalhousie & Sherbrooke, North—Nord (pop 1,829)
• Darling wd (pop 771)
• Fitzroy wd (pop 2,767)
• Huntley wd (pop 2,236)
• Lanark wd (pop 1,751)
• Lanark, Village wd (pop 979)
• Lavant wd (pop 569)
• Pakenham wd (pop 1,872)
• Ramsay (pop 2,383)

1911 census

• Almonte, T-V wd (pop 2,452)
• Carleton Place, T-V wd (pop 3,621)
• Dalhousie wd (pop 1,225)
• Darling wd (pop 623)
• Lanark wd (pop 1,595)
• Lanark, VL wd (pop 737)
• Lavant wd (pop 547)
• Pakenham wd (pop 1,605)
• Ramsay
• Sherbrooke N (pop 277)

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 Lanark in 1871.
• Merged into Lanark in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Lanark_North

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.