Prescott, Ontario

Prescott 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 Q7240842.

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

• Alfred wd (pop 584)
• Caledonia (pop 958)
• Hawkesbury E wd (pop 3,029)
• Hawkesbury, Village wd (pop 2,665)
• Longueuil (pop 1,406)
• Plantagenet N (pop 1,202)
• Plantagenet S (pop 643)

1861 census

• Alfred wd (pop 1,359)
• Caledonia (pop 1,081)
• Hawkesbury E wd (pop 4,226)
• Hawkesbury W-O (pop 2,186)
• Hawkesbury, Village wd (pop 1,259)
• Longueuil (pop 1,611)
• Plantagenet N (pop 2,539)
• Plantagenet S (pop 1,238)

1871 census

• Alfred wd (pop 1,697)
• Caledonia (pop 1,281)
• Hawkesbury E wd (pop 4,611)
• Hawkesbury W-O (pop 1,977)
• Hawkesbury, Village wd (pop 1,671)
• Longueuil (pop 1,835)
• Plantagenet N (pop 3,000)
• Plantagenet S (pop 1,575)

1881 census

• Alfred wd (pop 3,208)
• Caledonia (pop 1,751)
• Hawkesbury E wd (pop 5,082)
• Hawkesbury W-O (pop 2,360)
• Hawkesbury, Village wd (pop 1,920)
• Longueuil (pop 1,162)
• L’Orignal, Village wd (pop 853)
• Plantagenet N (pop 3,997)
• Plantagenet S (pop 2,524)

1891 census

• Alfred wd (pop 3,053)
• Caledonia (pop 1,943)
• Hawkesbury E wd (pop 4,896)
• Hawkesbury W-O (pop 2,740)
• Hawkesbury, Village wd (pop 2,042)
• Longueuil (pop 1,172)
• L’Orignal, Village wd (pop 1,002)
• Plantagenet N (pop 4,245)
• Plantagenet S (pop 3,080)

1901 census

• Alfred wd (pop 3,327)
• Caledonia (pop 2,201)
• Hawkesbury E wd (pop 4,621)
• Hawkesbury W-O (pop 1,350)
• Hawkesbury, Village wd (pop 4,150)
• Longueuil (pop 1,060)
• L’Orignal, Village wd (pop 1,026)
• Plantagenet N (pop 4,082)
• Plantagenet S (pop 3,544)
• Vankleek Hill, T-V wd (pop 1,674)

1911 census

• Alfred wd (pop 3,270)
• Caledonia (pop 2,247)
• Hawkesbury E wd (pop 4,041)
• Hawkesbury W-O (pop 1,849)
• Hawkesbury, Village wd (pop 4,400)
• Longueuil (pop 1,068)
• L’Orignal, Village wd (pop 1,347)
• Plantagenet N (pop 3,660)
• Plantagenet S (pop 3,509)
• Vankleek Hill, T-V wd (pop 1,577)

1921 census

• Alfred wd (pop 3,210)
• Caledonia (pop 2,010)
• Hawkesbury E wd (pop 3,855)
• Hawkesbury W (pop 1,675)
• Hawkesbury, Village wd (pop 5,544)
• Longueuil (pop 970)
• L’Orignal, Village wd (pop 1,298)
• Plantagenet N (pop 3,212)
• Plantagenet S (pop 3,205)
• Vankleek Hill, T-V wd (pop 1,499)

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Prescott
• Wikidata: Q7240842
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_County

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.