Niagara, Ontario
Niagara was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1871–1881 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. Historic Niagara CD; not coterminous with modern Regional Municipality of Niagara, no clear Wikidata county equivalent.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1871 | 3,693 | 4 |
| 1881 | 3,445 | 2 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1871 census
- Niagara, Centre Ward—Quartier (pop 530)
- Niagara, East Ward—Quartier (pop 559)
- Niagara, Township wd (pop 2,093)
- Niagara, West Ward—Quartier (pop 511)
1881 census
- Niagara, Township wd (pop 2,004)
- Niagara, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,441)
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 Lincoln in 1871.
- Merged into Lincoln & Niagara in 1891.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_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.