London City, Ontario

London City was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1851–1901 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 Q92561.

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

• London, St. Andrew’s Ward (pop 2,083)
• London, St. David’s Ward (pop 1,148)
• London, St. George’s Ward (pop 1,212)
• London, St. Patrick’s Ward (pop 2,592)

1861 census

• Ward No. 1 (pop 1,980)
• Ward No. 2 (pop 2,124)
• Ward No. 3 (pop 2,912)
• Ward No. 4 (pop 821)
• Ward No. 5 (pop 1,755)
• Ward No. 6 (pop 916)
• Ward No. 7 (pop 1,047)

1871 census

• London, Ward—Quartier No. 1 (pop 2,395)
• London, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (pop 3,586)
• London, Ward—Quartier No. 3 (pop 2,736)
• London, Ward—Quartier No. 4 (pop 2,590)
• London, Ward—Quartier No. 5 (pop 1,134)
• London, Ward—Quartier No. 6 (pop 2,175)
• London, Ward—Quartier No. 7 (pop 1,210)

1881 census

• London, Ward—Quartier No. 1 (pop 2,126)
• London, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (pop 2,862)
• London, Ward—Quartier No. 3 (pop 3,777)
• London, Ward—Quartier No. 4 (pop 1,199)
• London, Ward—Quartier No. 5 (pop 4,499)
• London, Ward—Quartier No. 6 (pop 3,560)
• London, Ward—Quartier No. 7 (pop 1,723)

1891 census

• London, Ward—Quartier 1 (part) (pop 4,471)
• London, Ward—Quartier 2 (part) (pop 5,204)
• London, Ward—Quartier 3 (part) (pop 6,332)
• London, Ward—Quartier 4 (part) (pop 6,274)

1901 census

• London, Ward—Quartier 1 (part) (pop 4,448)
• London, Ward—Quartier 2 (part) (pop 5,611)
• London, Ward—Quartier 3 (part) (pop 6,714)
• London, Ward—Quartier 4 (part) (pop 7,642)

Lineage

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

• Merged into London in 1911.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_London_City
• Wikidata: Q92561
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London,_Ontario
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_(Ontario)

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.