Renfrew, Ontario

Renfrew 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 Q1815526.

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

• Admaston wd (pop 685)
• Bagot wd (pop 734)
• Blithfield (pop 200)
• Bromley wd (pop 687)
• Brougham wd (pop 438)
• Grattan wd (pop 554)
• Horton wd (pop 1,142)
• McNab wd (pop 1,513)
• Pembroke wd (pop 633)
• Ross wd (pop 708)
• Stafford wd (pop 281)
• Westmeath wd (pop 1,152)
• Wilberforce wd (pop 688)

1861 census

• Admaston wd (pop 1,713)
• Algona (pop 424)
• Alice (pop 727)
• Arnprior, Village wd (pop 670)
• Bagot and Brougham (pop 1,550)
• Blithfield (pop 178)
• Bromley wd (pop 1,275)
• Brudenoll, Raglan and Radcliffe (pop 1,023)
• Grattan wd (pop 1,253)
• Horton wd (pop 1,192)
• McNab wd (pop 2,000)
• Pembroke wd (pop 604)
• Pembroke, Town—Ville wd (pop 637)
• Pettawawa, Buchanan and McKay (pop 383)
• Renfrew, T-V wd (pop 700)
• Rolph and Wylie (pop 256)
• Ross wd (pop 1,311)
• Sebastopol and Griffith (pop 590)
• Stafford wd (pop 550)
• Westmeath wd (pop 2,001)
• Wilberforce wd (pop 1,288)

1921 census

• Admaston wd (pop 1,829)
• Algona N (pop 507)
• Algona S (pop 674)
• Alice & Fraser (pop 1,783)
• Arnprior, T-V wd (pop 4,077)
• Bagot wd (pop 1,103)
• Blithefield (pop 60)
• Bromley wd (pop 1,796)
• Brougham wd (pop 561)
• Brudenell wd (pop 679)
• Buchanan wd (pop 577)
• Burns wd (pop 43)
• Clara wd (pop 144)
• Cobden, VL wd (pop 711)
• Eganville, VL wd (pop 1,015)
• Grattan wd (pop 1,700)
• Griffith & Matawatchan (pop 487)
• Hagarty wd (pop 1,650)
• Head wd (pop 291)
• Horton wd (pop 1,259)
• Indian reserves (pop 122)
• Jones wd (pop 176)
• Killaloe, VL wd (pop 522)
• Lynedock (pop 390)
• Maria wd (pop 53)
• McNab wd (pop 3,379)
• Pembroke wd (pop 415)
• Pembroke, T-V wd (pop 7,875)
• Petawawa & McKay (pop 922)
• Radcliffe wd (pop 486)
• Raglan wd (pop 836)
• Ralph (pop 331)
• Renfrew, T-V wd (pop 4,906)
• Richards wd (pop 202)
• Ross wd (pop 1,790)
• Sebastopol wd (pop 462)
• Sherwood wd (pop 1,684)
• Stafford wd (pop 1,075)
• Westmeath wd (pop 3,081)
• Wilberforce wd (pop 1,698)
• Wylie wd (pop 154)

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 Renfrew South in 1871.
• Split into Renfrew North, Renfrew South in 1871.
• Re-formed from Renfrew North, Renfrew South in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Renfrew
• Wikidata: Q1815526
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfrew_County
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Renfrew

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.