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Census Division: Lincoln & Niagara | Province: Ontario | Years active: 1891–1901

Lincoln & Niagara, Ontario

Lincoln & Niagara was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1891–1901 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. ON composite CD covering Lincoln + Niagara counties; Q3241311 is electoral district (excluded by protocol).

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.

Year	Population	CSDs
1891	21,806	9
1901	27,566	11

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1891 census

Beamsville, VL wd (pop 911)
Clinton (pop 2,137)
Grantham wd (pop 1,928)
Louth (pop 1,774)
Merritton, T-V wd (pop 1,813)
Niagara (pop 1,845)
Niagara, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,349)
Port Dalhousie, VL wd (pop 879)
St. Catharines, C wd (pop 9,170)

1901 census

Beamsville, VL wd (pop 832)
Clinton (pop 2,056)
Gainsborough (pop 2,463)
Grantham wd (pop 1,941)
Louth (pop 1,848)
Merritton, T-V wd (pop 1,710)
Niagara (pop 1,897)
Niagara, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,258)
Pelham wd (pop 2,490)
Port Dalhousie, VL wd (pop 1,125)
St. Catharines, C wd (pop 9,946)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

Re-formed from Niagara in 1891.
Split off from Lincoln in 1891.
Merged into Lincoln in 1911.

Identifiers

HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Lincoln_&_Niagara

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.