Lanark, Ontario

Lanark 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 Q1801761.

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

• Bathurst & Sherbrooke South (pop 3,355)
• Beckwith wd (pop 2,540)
• Burgess (pop 1,110)
• Dalhousie & Sherbrooke North (pop 1,820)
• Darling wd (pop 670)
• Drummond (pop 2,648)
• Elmsley N (pop 2,031)
• Lanark wd (pop 2,649)
• Lavant wd (pop 98)
• Montague wd (pop 3,356)
• Pakenham wd (pop 1,868)
• Perth, T-V wd (pop 1,916)
• Ramsay (pop 3,256)

1861 census

• Bathurst wd (pop 3,272)
• Beckwith wd (pop 2,541)
• Burgess (pop 1,312)
• Dalhousie wd (pop 1,689)
• Darling wd (pop 900)
• Drummond (pop 2,637)
• Elinsley (pop 1,399)
• Lanark wd (pop 2,884)
• Lavant wd (pop 279)
• Montague wd (pop 3,478)
• Pakenham wd (pop 2,442)
• Perth, T-V wd (pop 2,465)
• Ramsay (pop 4,096)
• Sherbrooke, North (pop 377)
• Sherbrooke, South (pop 731)
• Smith’s Falls, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,137)

1921 census

• Almonte, T-V wd (pop 2,426)
• Bathurst wd (pop 2,023)
• Beckwith wd (pop 1,221)
• Burgess N (pop 660)
• Carleton Place, T-V wd (pop 3,841)
• Dalhousie wd (pop 1,047)
• Darling wd (pop 441)
• Drummond (pop 1,584)
• Elmsley N (pop 779)
• Lanark wd (pop 1,289)
• Lanark, VL wd (pop 597)
• Lavant wd (pop 429)
• Montague wd (pop 1,792)
• Pakenham wd (pop 1,518)
• Perth, T-V wd (pop 3,790)
• Ramsay (pop 1,713)
• Sherbrooke N (pop 283)
• Sherbrooke S (pop 770)
• Smiths Falls, T-V wd (pop 6,790)

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 Lanark North, Lanark South in 1871.
• Re-formed from Lanark North, Lanark South in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Lanark
• Wikidata: Q1801761
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanark_County
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Lanark

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.