Nipissing (1891–1921), Ontario
Nipissing (1891–1921) was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1891–1921 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 Q1436530.
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 | 13,020 | 12 |
| 1901 | 36,551 | 59 |
| 1911 | 116,693 | 172 |
| 1921 | 34,543 | 93 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1891 census
- Appleby, Hagar, Awrey, Hawley, Dryden, Dill & Nelson (pop 155)
- Blezard, McKim (including Sudbury & Broder) (pop 2,354)
- Bonfield, Chisholm, Boulter & Ferris (pop 2,249)
- Calvin, Lauder, Ballantyne, Wilkes, Pentland, Paxton, Biggar, Osler, Lyster & Boyd (pop 549)
- Cameron, Deacon & Fitzgerald (pop 242)
- Finlayson & Peck (pop 204)
- Kirkpatrick, Hugel, Ratter & Dunnett (pop 535)
- Mattawa, T-V wd (pop 1,438)
- Nipissing, Indian Reserve, Springer, Field, Badgerow & Caldwell (pop 1,480)
- North Bay (Town—Ville), Widdifield, Phelps & Olrig (pop 2,210)
- Papineau & Mattawa (pop 694)
- Unorganized Territory (pop 910)
1901 census
- Aird Island (pop 122)
- Airey & parts of Sabine & Lyell (pop 704)
- Algoma Mills (pop 127)
- Badgerow, Field, Gibbons & Bastedo (parts) (pop 89)
- Balfour & Morgan (pop 922)
- Biscotasing (pop 102)
- Blezard & Hanmer wd (pop 681)
- Bonfield wd (pop 1,707)
- Buck (pop 270)
- Caldwell wd (pop 868)
- Calvin wd (pop 509)
- Cameron (pop 487)
- Cartier wd (pop 125)
- Casey, Hilliard, Brethour, Ingram & part Harris (pop 71)
- Chisholm & Boulter (pop 958)
- Clara, Head & Maria (pop 483)
- Collins (pop 163)
- Cooks Mills (pop 241)
- Crerar wd (pop 311)
- Cutler (pop 305)
- Drury, Denison & Graham (pop 807)
- Dryden, Neelon, Garson & part Maclennan (pop 506)
- Dunnet & Ratter (pop 774)
- Dymond, Harley, Hudson, Kerns & part Harris (pop 698)
- Ferris wd (pop 962)
- Gertrude, Mine & Creighton (pop 94)
- Grant wd (pop 188)
- Hagar, Loughrin, Awrey & Hawley (pop 157)
- Hallam (pop 665)
- Hess wd (pop 230)
- Hugel wd (pop 192)
- Jennings & parts Casimir & Appleby (pop 282)
- Killarney wd (pop 288)
- Kirkpatrick wd (pop 357)
- Lauder & Wilkes (pop 66)
- Long Sault (pop 26)
- Macpherson & part of Kirkpatrick (pop 151)
- Martland wd (pop 172)
- Mattawa, T-V wd (pop 1,400)
- Mattawan wd (pop 328)
- May, Salter & Township 116 (pop 1,507)
- McKim wd (pop 3,012)
- Montreal River & Temagami Lake (pop 342)
- Murchison, Preston & part Lyell (pop 323)
- Nairn, Lorne, Hyman & unorganized territory (pop 1,947)
- North Bay, T-V wd (pop 2,530)
- Papineau wd (pop 670)
- Peck, Hunter, Canisbay & McLaughlin (pop 543)
- Rathburn, Street & part Maclennan (pop 29)
- Rayside & Unorg. Ter—Ter. non-organisé (pop 835)
- Sabine & Lyell (parts) (pop 146)
- Snider & Waters (pop 687)
- Spanish wd (pop 151)
- Springer wd (pop 1,305)
- Sturgeon Falls, T-V (pop 1,418)
- Sudbury t-v (pop 2,027)
- Walford (pop 335)
- Whitefish River, Mouth (pop 237)
- Widdifield wd (pop 919)
1911 census
- Airy wd (pop 1,016)
- Anglin (pop 295)
- Appleby wd (pop 300)
- Armstrong wd (pop 664)
- Awrey wd (pop 435)
- Badgerow wd (pop 368)
- Barr wd (pop 223)
- Bastedo wd (pop 1,158)
- Bear Creek (pop 13)
- Bear Island (pop 132)
- Beauchamp wd (pop 174)
- Benoit (pop 109)
- Bigwood wd (pop 36)
- Blezard wd (pop 221)
- Bonfield wd (pop 181)
- Bonfield, T-V wd (pop 484)
- Bonis (pop 238)
- Boulter (pop 31)
- Bowman (pop 1,860)
- Bowyer (pop 1,445)
- Brethour wd (pop 65)
- Broder wd (pop 543)
- Brower (pop 312)
- Bryce (pop 41)
- Bucke wd (pop 645)
- Cache Bay, T-V (pop 889)
- Caldwell wd (pop 64)
- Calvert (pop 111)
- Calvin wd (pop 595)
- Cameron (pop 454)
- Canisbay wd (pop 391)
- Capreol, T-V wd (pop 736)
- Carman (pop 1,051)
- Carr (pop 152)
- Casey wd (pop 68)
- Casimir wd (pop 418)
- Chamberlain wd (pop 3,131)
- Charleton (pop 635)
- Chatters (pop 244)
- Chisholm wd (pop 310)
- Clara wd (pop 1,199)
- Cleland wd (pop 780)
- Clergue (pop 317)
- Cobalt, T-V wd (pop 5,638)
- Cochrane, T-V wd (pop 1,715)
- Coleman wd (pop 1,223)
- Copper Cliff, T-V wd (pop 3,082)
- Corley wd (pop 672)
- Cosby & Mason (pop 62)
- Creelman wd (pop 1,082)
- Crerar wd (pop 144)
- Cross Lake (pop 35)
- Dack (pop 165)
- Davis wd (pop 505)
- Deacon (pop 1,099)
- Dickens, Preston & Clancy (pop 445)
- Dill wd (pop 158)
- Donovan wd (pop 235)
- Dryden wd (pop 596)
- Dundonald (pop 310)
- Dunnet wd (pop 100)
- Dymond wd (pop 310)
- Elk Lake (pop 20)
- Elk Lake Mining Division (pop 123)
- Englehart, T-V wd (pop 670)
- Evanturel wd (pop 382)
- Evelyn (pop 84)
- Falconbridge wd (pop 699)
- Ferris wd (pop 153)
- Field wd (pop 626)
- Firstbrook wd (pop 434)
- Fort Matatchewan (pop 90)
- Garson wd (pop 20)
- German (pop 22)
- Gibbons wd (pop 547)
- Glackmeyer (pop 522)
- Gooderfoam (pop 310)
- Grant wd (pop 459)
- Guibord (pop 456)
- Hagar wd (pop 188)
- Haileybury, T-V wd (pop 3,874)
- Hanmer wd (pop 66)
- Harley wd (pop 60)
- Harris wd (pop 633)
- Haultain wd (pop 65)
- Hawley wd (pop 39)
- Head wd (pop 26)
- Hendrie wd (pop 275)
- Henwood wd (pop 99)
- Hilliard wd (pop 71)
- Hislop (pop 1,241)
- Hudson wd (pop 366)
- Hugel wd (pop 24)
- Hunter wd (pop 1,256)
- Hutton wd (pop 540)
- Ingram wd (pop 178)
- James wd (pop 82)
- Jennings wd (pop 123)
- Kerns wd (pop 235)
- Kirkpatrick wd (pop 100)
- Knight (pop 468)
- Langmuir (pop 297)
- Larder Lake Mining Division (pop 100)
- Latchford, T-V wd (pop 428)
- Lauder (pop 400)
- Lawson wd (pop 484)
- Lebel wd (pop 889)
- Leith wd (pop 5,638)
- Leonard wd (pop 1,715)
- Lister wd (pop 3,082)
- Lorrain & South Lorrain (pop 670)
- Loudon wd (pop 3,874)
- Lyell & Murchison (pop 428)
- Macpherson wd (pop 7,737)
- Maisonville (pop 2,199)
- Maria wd (pop 4,150)
- Marter (pop 113)
- Martland wd (pop 456)
- Matheson (pop 52)
- Mattawa, T-V wd (pop 1,524)
- Mattawan wd (pop 188)
- McCarthy (pop 1,524)
- McKim wd (pop 2,108)
- Milner wd (pop 66)
- Moose Fort (pop 468)
- Morel (pop 11)
- Mortimer (pop 26)
- Mulock (pop 12)
- Munroe (pop 27)
- Neelon wd (pop 342)
- New Liskeard, T-V wd (pop 2,108)
- Nicol wd
- Nipissing I R (pop 231)
- NO DATA
- Norman wd (pop 48)
- North Bay, T-V wd (pop 7,737)
- Osborne wd (pop 25)
- Other parts
- Otto wd (pop 84)
- Pacaud wd (pop 60)
- Papineau wd (pop 633)
- Peck (pop 65)
- Pense wd (pop 11)
- Phelps (pop 39)
- Playfair (pop 25)
- Poitras wd (pop 26)
- Rankine (pop 18)
- Rathbone (pop 12)
- Ratter wd (pop 94)
- Ray wd (pop 15)
- Robillard wd (pop 136)
- Sabine wd (pop 99)
- Savard (pop 103)
- Scollard wd (pop 71)
- Secord wd (pop 63)
- Sharpe wd (pop 36)
- Sherring (pop 20)
- Springer wd (pop 1,241)
- Stewart (pop 354)
- Sturgeon Falls, T-V (pop 2,199)
- Sudbury t-v (pop 4,150)
- Taylor (pop 185)
- Temagami (pop 133)
- Temagami Forest Reserve (pop 297)
- Thomas (pop 15)
- Turtle Lake I R (pop 62)
- Tyrell (pop 12)
- Unsurveyed parts north of Transcontinental Railway (pop 178)
- Van Hise wd (pop 11)
- Walker (pop 73)
- White wd (pop 24)
- Widdifield wd (pop 1,256)
1921 census
- Airy wd (pop 890)
- Askin wd (pop 33)
- Aston wd (pop 2)
- Badgerow wd (pop 255)
- Ballantyne wd (pop 1)
- Barron wd (pop 28)
- Bastedo wd (pop 113)
- Bear Island (pop 41)
- Beaucage wd (pop 47)
- Biggar wd (pop 1)
- Bishop wd (pop 21)
- Blyth wd (pop 2)
- Bonfield wd (pop 1,267)
- Bonfield, T-V wd (pop 421)
- Boulter & Lauder (pop 71)
- Bower wd (pop 1)
- Boyd (pop 152)
- Bronson wd (pop 65)
- Butt wd (pop 3)
- Cache Bay, T-V (pop 926)
- Caldwell wd (pop 1,544)
- Calvin wd (pop 496)
- Cameron (pop 312)
- Canisbay wd (pop 51)
- Canton wd (pop 2)
- Chisholm wd (pop 1,041)
- Clancy wd (pop 11)
- Commanda (pop 11)
- Crerar wd (pop 245)
- Dana wd (pop 3)
- Deacon (pop 129)
- Devine wd (pop 5)
- Dickens wd (pop 41)
- Dickson wd (pop 1)
- Eddy wd (pop 21)
- Edgar wd (pop 94)
- Falconer wd (pop 49)
- Ferris wd (pop 1,358)
- Field wd (pop 1,008)
- Finlayson wd (pop 2)
- Freswick wd (pop 4)
- Gibbons wd (pop 361)
- Gladman wd (pop 2)
- Grant wd (pop 154)
- Hugel wd (pop 376)
- Hunter wd (pop 32)
- Indian Reserves (pop 341)
- Kenny wd (pop 6)
- Kirkpatrick wd (pop 405)
- Lister wd (pop 17)
- Loudon wd (pop 40)
- Lyell wd (pop 141)
- Lyman wd (pop 2)
- Macpherson wd (pop 498)
- Master wd (pop 8)
- Mattawa, T-V wd (pop 1,462)
- Mattawan wd (pop 198)
- McCraney wd (pop 26)
- McLaren wd (pop 6)
- McLaughlin wd (pop 31)
- McWilliams wd (pop 2)
- Medina (pop 2)
- Mulock (pop 4)
- Murchison wd (pop 482)
- Niven wd (pop 24)
- NO DATA
- North Bay, T-V wd (pop 10,692)
- Notman wd (pop 1)
- Osborne wd (pop 18)
- Osler wd (pop 3)
- Papineau wd (pop 606)
- Paxton wd (pop 2)
- Peck (pop 46)
- Pedley wd (pop 35)
- Pentland wd (pop 61)
- Poitras wd (pop 23)
- Preston wd (pop 125)
- Sabine wd (pop 230)
- Scholes wd (pop 4)
- Sisk wd (pop 32)
- Springer wd (pop 1,431)
- Sproule wd (pop 2)
- Stewart (pop 63)
- Strathy wd (pop 123)
- Stratton wd (pop 10)
- Sturgeon Falls, T-V (pop 4,125)
- Temagami Forest Reserves (pop 136)
- Thistle wd (pop 1)
- Torrington wd (pop 2)
- Vogt wd (pop 23)
- White wd (pop 44)
- Widdifield wd (pop 1,314)
- Wilkes wd (pop 3)
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 Algoma in 1891.
- Split off from Algoma in 1901.
- Merged into Algoma East (1911) in 1911.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_Nipissing_1891 - Wikidata: Q1436530
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipissing_District
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_de_Nipissing
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.