Northumberland East, Ontario
Northumberland East was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1871–1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. ON federal electoral subdivision (East Northumberland, OCR variant); no 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1871 | 21,758 | 7 |
| 1881 | 22,299 | 9 |
| 1891 | 21,995 | 9 |
| 1901 | 20,495 | 9 |
| 1911 | 19,927 | 9 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1871 census
- Brighton, Township wd (pop 3,734)
- Brighton, Village wd (pop 1,357)
- Colborne, Village (pop 823)
- Cramahe wd (pop 3,833)
- Murray wd (pop 3,638)
- Percy wd (pop 4,084)
- Seymour wd (pop 4,289)
1881 census
- Brighton wd (pop 3,470)
- Brighton, Village wd (pop 1,547)
- Campbellford, T-V wd (pop 1,418)
- Colborne, Village (pop 1,079)
- Cramahe wd (pop 3,481)
- Hastings, Village wd (pop 193)
- Murray wd (pop 3,560)
- Percy wd (pop 3,768)
- Seymour wd (pop 3,783)
1891 census
- Brighton (pop 3,017)
- Brighton, Village wd (pop 1,479)
- Campbellford, T-V wd (pop 2,424)
- Colborne, Village (pop 1,068)
- Cramahe wd (pop 2,995)
- Hastings, Village wd (pop 812)
- Murray wd (pop 3,303)
- Percy wd (pop 3,388)
- Seymour wd (pop 3,509)
1901 census
- Brighton (pop 2,774)
- Brighton, Village wd (pop 1,378)
- Campbellford, T-V wd (pop 2,485)
- Colborne, Village (pop 1,017)
- Cramahe wd (pop 2,556)
- Hastings, Village wd (pop 815)
- Murray wd (pop 2,993)
- Percy wd (pop 3,216)
- Seymour wd (pop 3,261)
1911 census
- Brighton (pop 2,439)
- Brighton, VL wd (pop 1,320)
- Campbellford, T-V wd (pop 3,051)
- Colborne, VL (pop 999)
- Cramahe wd (pop 2,373)
- Hastings, VL wd (pop 883)
- Murray wd (pop 2,765)
- Percy wd (pop 2,766)
- Seymour wd (pop 3,331)
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 Northumberland in 1871.
- Merged into Northumberland in 1921.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_Northumberland_East
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.