Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough 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 Q730542.

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

• Asphodel wd (pop 1,678)
• Belmont, Methuen (pop 248)
• Douro wd (pop 1,676)
• Dummer wd (pop 1,600)
• Ennismore wd (pop 675)
• Monaghan, N (pop 905)
• Otonabee wd (pop 3,872)
• Peterborough, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,191)
• Smith & Harvey (pop 2,392)

1861 census

• Ashburnham, Village (pop 993)
• Asphodel wd (pop 2,911)
• Belmont, Methuen (pop 689)
• Douro wd (pop 2,519)
• Dummer wd (pop 2,105)
• Ennismore wd (pop 863)
• Galway, Cavendish (pop 430)
• Harvey wd (pop 360)
• Minden, Stanhope and Dysart (pop 274)
• Monaghan, N (pop 1,281)
• Otonabee wd (pop 4,261)
• Peterborough, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,979)
• Smith (pop 3,795)
• Snowden, Glamorgan (pop 191)

1921 census

• Anstruther wd (pop 206)
• Asphodel wd (pop 1,530)
• Belmont wd (pop 1,513)
• Burleigh wd (pop 251)
• Cavendish wd (pop 61)
• Chandos wd (pop 582)
• Douro wd (pop 1,645)
• Dummer wd (pop 1,505)
• Ennismore wd (pop 717)
• Galway wd (pop 370)
• Harvey wd (pop 935)
• Havelock, VL (pop 1,268)
• Indian reserves (pop 329)
• Lakefield, Village wd (pop 1,189)
• Methuen wd (pop 171)
• Monaghan N (pop 2,580)
• Norwood, Village wd (pop 765)
• Otonabee wd (pop 3,023)
• Peterborough, C wd (pop 20,994)
• Smith wd (pop 2,627)

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 The Territories in 1861.
• Merged into Peterborough East in 1871.
• Split into Peterborough West in 1871.
• Re-formed from Peterborough East, Peterborough West in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Peterborough
• Wikidata: Q730542
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_County
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Peterborough

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.