Muskoka & Parry Sound, Ontario
Muskoka & Parry Sound 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 Muskoka + Parry Sound; no single 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.
| Year | Population | CSDs |
|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 26,515 | 20 |
| 1901 | 33,674 | 50 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1891 census
- Armour & Ryerson (pop 2,171)
- Baxter, Gibson & Freeman (pop 700)
- Bethune, Perry & Proudfoot (pop 1,704)
- Blair, Brown, Burton, Shawanaga, Harrison, Walbridge, Mowat & French River (pop 1,119)
- Brunel & Stephenson (pop 1,728)
- Chapman & Croft (pop 1,301)
- Conger, Cowper & Foley (pop 502)
- Ferguson, Carling & Burpee (pop 481)
- Ferrie, Mills, Hardy, Wilson, McConkey & McKenzie (pop 753)
- Franklin, Sinclair & Chaffey (pop 1,776)
- Gurd, Pringle & Patterson (pop 842)
- Himsworth N & S & Nipissing (pop 1,832)
- Humphrey, Watt & Cardwell (pop 1,835)
- Huntsville, T-V wd (pop 1,159)
- Joly, Strong & Sundridge, Village (pop 1,500)
- Laurier, Machar & Lount (pop 1,177)
- McDougall, Parry Sound (Town—Ville) & Parry Island (pop 2,337)
- McKellar & Hagerman (pop 1,189)
- Monteith, Spence & Christie (pop 1,037)
- Stisted & McMurrich (pop 1,372)
1901 census
- Armour wd (pop 915)
- Baxter (pop 377)
- Bethune wd (pop 400)
- Brunel (pop 811)
- Burks Falls, VL wd (pop 849)
- Cardwell (pop 466)
- Carling wd (pop 377)
- Chaffey (pop 1,136)
- Chapman wd (pop 694)
- Christie wd (pop 553)
- Conger & Cowper (pop 255)
- Croft wd (pop 557)
- Ferguson & Burpee (pop 200)
- Ferris (pop 104)
- Foley wd (pop 618)
- Franklin (pop 544)
- Gibson & Freeman (pop 131)
- Gurd wd (pop 547)
- Hagerman wd (pop 471)
- Himsworth, North & South—Nord & Sud (pop 2,516)
- Humphrey wd (pop 685)
- Huntsville, T-V wd (pop 2,152)
- Joly wd (pop 268)
- Laurier wd (pop 273)
- Lount (pop 287)
- Machar wd (pop 902)
- McConkey, Mills, Wilson & Hardy (pop 575)
- McDougall wd (pop 503)
- McKellar wd (pop 697)
- McKenzie & Burton (pop 169)
- McMurrich wd (pop 716)
- Monteith wd (pop 350)
- Mowat & Blair (pop 481)
- Nipissing wd (pop 675)
- Parry Island (pop 807)
- Parry Sound, T-V wd (pop 2,884)
- Patterson wd (pop 184)
- Perry wd (pop 1,779)
- Pringle (pop 282)
- Proudfoot wd (pop 145)
- Ryerson wd (pop 761)
- Shawanaga & Harrison (pop 100)
- Sinclair (pop 271)
- Spence wd (pop 417)
- Stephenson (pop 1,249)
- Stisted (pop 626)
- Strong wd (pop 768)
- Sundridge, VL wd (pop 357)
- Wallbridge & Brown (pop 815)
- Watt (pop 975)
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 (1871–1881) in 1891.
- Split into Muskoka (1911–1921), Parry Sound (1911–1921) in 1911.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_Muskoka_&_Parry_Sound
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.