Peterborough West, Ontario

Peterborough West 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 (west 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.

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1871 census

• Ennismore wd (pop 1,104)
• Monaghan S (pop 1,145)
• Monaghan, N (pop 1,479)
• Peterborough, C wd (pop 4,611)
• Smith wd (pop 3,428)

1881 census

• Ennismore wd (pop 1,137)
• Monaghan N (pop 912)
• Monaghan S (pop 1,148)
• Peterborough, C wd (pop 6,812)
• Smith wd (pop 3,301)

1891 census

• Ennismore wd (pop 932)
• Monaghan N (pop 1,021)
• Monaghan S (pop 1,093)
• Peterborough, Town—Ville wd (pop 9,717)
• Smith wd (pop 3,045)

1901 census

• Ennismore wd (pop 936)
• Monaghan, North—Nord (pop 957)
• Monaghan, South—Sud (pop 929)
• Peterborough, Town—Ville wd (pop 11,239)
• Smith wd (pop 2,944)

1911 census

• Cavendish wd (pop 262)
• Ennismore wd (pop 821)
• Galway wd (pop 338)
• Harvey wd (pop 1,027)
• Monaghah N (pop 1,495)
• Peterborough, C wd (pop 18,360)
• Prescott, T-V wd (pop 867)
• Smith wd (pop 2,981)

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 Peterborough in 1871.
• Merged into Peterborough in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Peterborough_West

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.