Lanark South, Ontario

Lanark South 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 (South 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

• Bathurst wd (pop 3,220)
• Beckwith wd (pop 1,977)
• Burgess N (pop 1,358)
• Carleton Place, T-V wd (pop 1,205)
• Drummond (pop 2,467)
• Elmsley N (pop 1,418)
• Montague wd (pop 3,187)
• Perth, T-V wd (pop 2,375)
• Sherbrooke S (pop 833)
• Smith’s Falls, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,150)

1881 census

• Bathurst wd (pop 2,960)
• Beckwith wd (pop 1,928)
• Burgess N (pop 1,287)
• Carleton Place, T-V wd (pop 1,975)
• Drummond (pop 2,378)
• Elmsley N (pop 1,319)
• Montague wd (pop 2,683)
• Perth, T-V wd (pop 2,467)
• Sherbrooke S (pop 948)
• Smith’s Falls, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,087)

1891 census

• Bathurst wd (pop 2,757)
• Beckwith wd (pop 1,766)
• Burgess N (pop 1,117)
• Carleton Place, T-V wd (pop 4,435)
• Drummond (pop 2,202)
• Elmsley N (pop 1,233)
• Montague wd (pop 2,232)
• Perth, T-V wd (pop 3,136)
• Sherbrooke S (pop 984)

1901 census

• Bathurst wd (pop 2,508)
• Beckwith wd (pop 1,646)
• Burgess, North—Nord (pop 952)
• Carleton Place, T-V wd (pop 4,059)
• Drummond (pop 2,078)
• Elmsley, North—Nord (pop 1,087)
• Montague wd (pop 2,058)
• Perth, T-V wd (pop 3,588)
• Sherbrooke S (pop 924)
• Smiths Falls (part), Town—Ville wd (pop 587)

1911 census

• Bathurst wd (pop 2,228)
• Beckwith wd (pop 1,402)
• Burgess N (pop 752)
• Drummond (pop 1,764)
• Elmsley N (pop 1,066)
• Montague wd (pop 1,839)
• Perth, T-V wd (pop 3,588)
• Sherbrooke S (pop 742)
• Smiths Falls t-v wd (pop 6,370)

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_South

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.