Renfrew South, Ontario

Renfrew South 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 (south half of Renfrew 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

• Admaston wd (pop 1,988)
• Arnprior, Village wd (pop 1,714)
• Bagot & Blithefield (pop 1,142)
• Brougham wd (pop 521)
• Brudenell, Raglan, Radcliffe, Lyndoch (pop 1,210)
• Grattan wd (pop 1,481)
• Horton wd (pop 1,267)
• Matawatchan, Griffith (pop 406)
• McNab wd (pop 2,855)
• Renfrew, T-V wd (pop 865)
• Sebastopol wd (pop 650)

1881 census

• Admaston wd (pop 2,383)
• Arnprior, Village wd (pop 2,147)
• Bagot & Blithefield (pop 1,126)
• Brougham wd (pop 574)
• Brundenell, Lynedock (pop 1,270)
• Grattan wd (pop 1,893)
• Griffith, Matawatchan (pop 614)
• Hagarty & Jones (pop 986)
• Horton wd (pop 1,510)
• McNab wd (pop 3,092)
• Raglan & Radcliffe (pop 785)
• Renfrew, T-V wd (pop 1,605)
• Sebastopol wd (pop 626)
• Sherwood, Richards & Burns (pop 431)
• Unorganized Territory (pop 118)

1891 census

• Admaston wd (pop 2,548)
• Arnprior, Village wd (pop 3,341)
• Bagot & Blithefield (pop 1,595)
• Brougham wd (pop 548)
• Brudenell wd (pop 1,104)
• Eganville (part), Village (pop 395)
• Grattan wd (pop 1,724)
• Griffith (pop 275)
• Hagarty & Jones (pop 1,608)
• Horton wd (pop 1,608)
• Lyndoch (pop 294)
• Matawatchan (pop 446)
• McNab wd (pop 3,514)
• Raglan & Radcliffe (pop 1,059)
• Renfrew, T-V wd (pop 2,611)
• Sebastopol wd (pop 710)
• Sherwood, Richards & Burns (pop 592)

1901 census

• Admaston wd (pop 2,453)
• Arnprior, Village wd (pop 4,152)
• Bagot & Blithefield (pop 1,620)
• Brougham wd (pop 601)
• Brudenell & Lynedoch (pop 1,411)
• Eganville (part), Village (pop 568)
• Grattan wd (pop 2,078)
• Griffith & Matawatchan (pop 697)
• Hagarty, Sherwood & Jones (pop 3,325)
• Horton wd (pop 1,557)
• McNab wd (pop 3,835)
• Raglan & Radcliffe (pop 1,364)
• Renfrew, T-V wd (pop 3,153)
• Richards & Burns (pop 131)
• Sebastopol wd (pop 731)

1911 census

• Admaston wd (pop 2,044)
• Bagot & Blithefield (pop 1,306)
• Brougham wd (pop 558)
• Brudenell wd (pop 753)
• Burns, Jones & Sherwood (pop 1,791)
• Eganville vl pt (pop 571)
• Grattan wd (pop 1,977)
• Griffith & Matawatchan (pop 570)
• Haggarty & Richards (pop 1,906)
• Horton wd (pop 1,454)
• Killaloe vl wd (pop 435)
• Killaloe, VL wd
• Lynedock (pop 387)
• McNab wd (pop 3,628)
• Radcliffe & Raglan (pop 1,629)
• Renfrew, T-V wd (pop 3,846)
• Sebastopol wd (pop 592)
• Sebastopol wd (pop 4,405)

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 Renfrew in 1871.
• Split off from Renfrew in 1871.
• Merged into Renfrew in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Renfrew_South

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.