Muskoka (1911–1921), Ontario

Muskoka (1911–1921) was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1911–1921 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. Historic Muskoka District as 19th-century CD; not coterminous with modern Muskoka District Municipality (Q382508).

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

1911 census

• Baxter, Freeman & Gibson (pop 745)
• Bracebridge t-v wd (pop 2,776)
• Bracebridge, T-V wd (pop 2,776)
• Brunel (pop 785)
• Cardwell (pop 409)
• Chaffey (pop 1,024)
• Draper (pop 938)
• Franklin & Sinclair (pop 700)
• Gravenhurst t-v wd (pop 1,624)
• Gravenhurst, T-V wd (pop 1,624)
• Huntsville t-v wd (pop 2,358)
• Huntsville, T-V wd (pop 2,358)
• Macaulay (pop 657)
• McLean & Ridout (pop 760)
• Medora & Wood (pop 1,527)
• Monck (pop 1,198)
• Morrison (pop 909)
• Muskoka (pop 944)
• Oakley (pop 325)
• Port Carling vl (pop 378)
• Port Carling, VL (pop 378)
• Ryde (pop 479)
• Stephenson (pop 1,178)
• Stisted
• Watt (pop 886)

1921 census

• Bala, T-V wd (pop 346)
• Baxter (pop 454)
• Bracebridge, T-V wd (pop 2,451)
• Brunel (pop 632)
• Cardwell (pop 234)
• Chaffey (pop 889)
• Draper (pop 732)
• Franklin (pop 502)
• Freeman (pop 604)
• Gibson (pop 1)
• Gravenhurst, T-V wd (pop 1,478)
• Huntsville, T-V wd (pop 2,246)
• Macaulay (pop 622)
• McLean (pop 418)
• Medora (pop 771)
• Monck (pop 1,189)
• Morrison (pop 788)
• Muskoka (pop 988)
• Oakley (pop 190)
• Port Carling, VL (pop 454)
• Ridout (pop 190)
• Ryde (pop 325)
• Sinclair (pop 110)
• Stephenson (pop 995)
• Stisted (pop 586)
• Watt (pop 833)
• Wood (pop 411)

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 Muskoka & Parry Sound in 1911.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Muskoka_1911

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.