Russell, Ontario

Russell 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 Q7381437.

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

• Cambridge (pop 200)
• Clarence (pop 508)
• Cumberland wd (pop 1,659)
• Russell wd (pop 503)

1861 census

• Cambridge (pop 669)
• Clarence (pop 1,732)
• Cumberland wd (pop 2,609)
• Russell wd (pop 1,814)

1871 census

• Cambridge (pop 769)
• Clarence (pop 2,666)
• Cumberland wd (pop 2,922)
• Gloucester wd (pop 4,785)
• New Edinburgh, Village (pop 596)
• Osgoode wd (pop 4,267)
• Russell wd (pop 2,339)

1881 census

• Cambridge (pop 1,676)
• Clarence (pop 4,411)
• Cumberland wd (pop 3,535)
• Gloucester wd (pop 6,254)
• New Edinburgh, Village (pop 995)
• Osgoode wd (pop 4,753)
• Russell wd (pop 3,458)

1891 census

• Cambridge (pop 4,113)
• Clarence (pop 4,779)
• Cumberland wd (pop 4,014)
• Gloucester wd (pop 6,823)
• Osgoode wd (pop 4,858)
• Ottawa, New Edinburgh, Ward—Quartier (pop 1,673)
• Rockland, T-V wd (pop 1,465)
• Russell wd (pop 3,918)

1901 census

• Cambridge (pop 3,459)
• Casselman, VL wd (pop 707)
• Clarence (pop 6,085)
• Cumberland wd (pop 4,198)
• Gloucester wd (pop 7,778)
• New Edinburg (Rideau Ward, Ottawa) (pop 2,288)
• Osgoode wd (pop 4,818)
• Rockland, T-V wd (pop 1,998)
• Russell wd (pop 3,835)

1911 census

• Cambridge (pop 3,836)
• Casselman, VL wd (pop 956)
• Clarence (pop 5,463)
• Cumberland wd (pop 4,033)
• Eastview vl wd (pop 3,169)
• Gloucester wd (pop 7,075)
• Osgoode wd (pop 4,598)
• Ottawa, Rideau ward-quartier (pop 2,943)
• Rockland, T-V wd (pop 3,397)
• Russell wd (pop 3,964)

1921 census

• Cambridge (pop 3,426)
• Casselman, VL wd (pop 977)
• Clarence (pop 5,307)
• Cumberland wd (pop 4,163)
• Rockland, T-V wd (pop 3,496)
• Russell wd (pop 3,752)

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Russell
• Wikidata: Q7381437
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_County,_Ontario

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.