Peterborough East, Ontario
Peterborough 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 half of Peterborough County); no separate 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 | 14,633 | 6 |
| 1881 | 23,956 | 19 |
| 1891 | 21,919 | 16 |
| 1901 | 22,290 | 21 |
| 1911 | 17,707 | 12 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1871 census
- Ashburnham, Village (pop 1,197)
- Asphodel wd (pop 3,247)
- Belmont, Methuen (pop 1,575)
- Douro wd (pop 2,671)
- Dummer wd (pop 1,951)
- Otonabee wd (pop 3,992)
1881 census
- Ashburnham, Village (pop 1,266)
- Asphodel wd (pop 1,918)
- Belmont wd (pop 1,738)
- Burleigh, Anstruther & Chandos (pop 1,381)
- Cardiff wd (pop 497)
- Douro wd (pop 2,864)
- Dummer wd (pop 2,149)
- Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt & C. (pop 1,087)
- Galway, Cavendish (pop 787)
- Glamorgan wd (pop 476)
- Harvey wd (pop 1,114)
- Hastings, Village wd (pop 692)
- Methuen wd (pop 227)
- Minden wd (pop 1,110)
- Monmouth wd (pop 426)
- Norwood, VL wd (pop 853)
- Otonabee wd (pop 4,013)
- Snowden (pop 807)
- Stanhope, Sherburne, McClintock (pop 551)
1891 census
- Ashburnham, Village (pop 1,674)
- Asphodel wd (pop 1,866)
- Belmont wd (pop 2,548)
- Burleigh, Anstruther & Chandos (pop 1,520)
- Cardiff wd (pop 612)
- Cavendish wd (pop 94)
- Douro wd (pop 2,131)
- Dummer wd (pop 2,143)
- Glamorgan wd (pop 505)
- Harcourt, Dudley, Dysart, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Clyde, Eyre, Havelock, Livingstone, Lawrence & Nightingale (pop 1,082)
- Harvey wd (pop 1,155)
- Lakefield, VL wd (pop 1,120)
- Methuen wd (pop 259)
- Monmouth wd (pop 548)
- Norwood, VL wd (pop 1,010)
- Otonabee wd (pop 3,652)
1901 census
- Ashburnham, Village (pop 1,647)
- Asphodel wd (pop 1,877)
- Belmont wd (pop 2,135)
- Burleigh & Anstruther (pop 687)
- Cardiff wd (pop 698)
- Cavendish wd (pop 155)
- Chandos wd (pop 806)
- Clyde, Eyre & Havelock
- Douro wd (pop 1,871)
- Dummer wd (pop 2,039)
- Glamorgan wd (pop 527)
- Guilford, Harburn & Bruton (pop 343)
- Harcourt, Dudley & Dysart (pop 773)
- Harvey wd (pop 1,199)
- Havelock, VL (pop 984)
- Lakefield, VL wd (pop 1,244)
- Livingstone, Lawrence & Nightingale (pop 28)
- Methuen wd (pop 247)
- Monmouth wd (pop 629)
- Norwood, VL wd (pop 945)
- Otonabee wd (pop 3,456)
1911 census
- Anstruther & Burleigh (pop 642)
- Asphodel wd (pop 1,661)
- Belmont & Methuen (pop 1,931)
- Chandos wd (pop 753)
- Douro wd (pop 1,866)
- Dummer wd (pop 1,715)
- Havelock, VL (pop 1,436)
- Lakefield vl wd (pop 1,397)
- Lakefield, VL wd (pop 1,397)
- Norwood vl wd (pop 811)
- Norwood, VL wd (pop 811)
- Otonabee wd (pop 3,287)
Lineage
Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.
- Re-formed from Peterborough in 1871.
- Merged into Peterborough in 1921.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_Peterborough_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.