Leeds South, Ontario

Leeds South was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1871–1901 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 Leeds); 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

• Bastard & Burgess, South—Sud (pop 3,540)
• Crosby S (pop 2,054)
• Crosby, N (pop 2,127)
• Escott, Front (pop 1,390)
• Gananoque, T-V wd (pop 2,020)
• Leeds and Lansdowne, Front (pop 3,760)
• Leeds and Lansdowne, Rear (pop 2,363)
• Yonge and Escott, Rear (pop 1,791)
• Yonge, Front wd (pop 1,671)

1881 census

• Bastard & Burgess, South—Sud (pop 3,500)
• Crosby N (pop 1,999)
• Crosby S (pop 1,968)
• Escott, Front (pop 1,329)
• Gananoque, T-V wd (pop 2,871)
• Lansdowne, Front (pop 2,198)
• Lansdowne, Rear (pop 1,192)
• Leeds, Front (pop 1,389)
• Leeds, Rear (pop 1,461)
• Newboro, VL wd (pop 418)
• Yonge and Escott, Rear (pop 2,103)
• Yonge, Front wd (pop 1,778)

1891 census

• Athens, Village wd (pop 904)
• Bastard & Burgess, South—Sud (pop 3,319)
• Crosby (pop 2,097)
• Crosby S (pop 1,849)
• Gananoque, T-V wd (pop 3,669)
• Lansdowne & Leeds, Front (pop 3,387)
• Lansdowne & Leeds, Rear (pop 2,492)
• Newboro, VL wd (pop 462)
• Yonge & Escott, Front (pop 2,857)
• Yonge & Escott, Rear (pop 1,413)

1901 census

• Athens, Village wd (pop 953)
• Bastard & Burgess, South—Sud (pop 3,006)
• Crosby, North—Nord (pop 2,030)
• Crosby, South—Sud (pop 1,811)
• Gananoque, T-V wd (pop 3,526)
• Lansdowne & Leeds, Front (pop 3,085)
• Lansdowne & Leeds, Rear (pop 2,386)
• Newboro, VL wd (pop 432)
• Yonge & Escott, Front (pop 2,680)
• Yonge & Escott, Rear (pop 1,276)

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 Leeds (1851–1861) in 1871.
• Split into Brockville, Leeds (1911–1921) in 1911.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Leeds_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.