Perth, Ontario

Perth was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1851–1921 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 Q177690.

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

1851 census

• Blanchard (pop 2,780)
• Downie, Downie & Gore (pop 2,727)
• Easthope N (pop 2,341)
• Easthope S (pop 1,797)
• Ellice wd (pop 1,328)
• Elma wd
• Fullarton wd (pop 1,750)
• Hibbert wd (pop 1,191)
• Logan wd (pop 698)
• Mornington wd (pop 933)
• Wallace wd

1861 census

• Blanchard (pop 3,774)
• Downie wd (pop 3,610)
• Easthope, North (pop 3,129)
• Easthope, South (pop 2,322)
• Ellice wd (pop 2,616)
• Elma wd (pop 2,392)
• Hibbert wd (pop 2,848)
• Logan wd (pop 2,259)
• Mitchell, T-V wd (pop 1,216)
• Mornington wd (pop 3,040)
• Pullarton wd (pop 2,890)
• St. Mary's, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,778)
• Stratford, Town of wd (pop 2,809)
• Wallace wd (pop 2,400)

1921 census

• Blanchard (pop 2,002)
• Downie wd (pop 2,457)
• Easthope N (pop 1,939)
• Easthope S (pop 1,376)
• Ellice wd (pop 2,871)
• Elma wd (pop 3,374)
• Fullarton wd (pop 1,714)
• Hibbert wd (pop 2,004)
• Listowel, T-V wd (pop 2,477)
• Logan wd (pop 2,584)
• Milverton, VL wd (pop 951)
• Mitchell, T-V wd (pop 1,800)
• Mornington wd (pop 2,583)
• St Marys, T-V wd (pop 3,847)
• Stratford, C wd (pop 16,094)
• Tavistock (pt), VL (pop 598)
• Wallace wd (pop 2,172)

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 into Perth North, Perth South in 1871.
• Re-formed from Perth North, Perth South in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Perth
• Wikidata: Q177690
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_County,_Ontario
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Perth

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.