Simcoe East, Ontario

Simcoe East was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1891–1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. ON federal electoral subdivision (east part of Simcoe 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

1891 census

• Gravenhurst, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,848)
• Matchedash wd (pop 375)
• Medonte wd (pop 4,514)
• Medora & Wood (pop 921)
• Midland, T-V wd (pop 2,088)
• Monck (pop 854)
• Muskoka (pop 797)
• Orillia wd (pop 3,687)
• Orillia, Town—Ville wd (pop 4,752)
• Oro wd (pop 4,357)
• Penetanguishene, T-V wd (pop 2,110)
• Tay wd (pop 4,714)
• Tiny wd (pop 4,784)

1901 census

• Gravenhurst, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,146)
• Matchedash wd (pop 499)
• Medonte wd (pop 4,451)
• Medora & Wood (pop 1,116)
• Midland, T-V wd (pop 3,174)
• Monck (pop 1,008)
• Muskoka (pop 838)
• Orillia wd (pop 4,564)
• Orillia, Town—Ville wd (pop 4,907)
• Oro wd (pop 4,001)
• Penetanguishene, T-V wd (pop 2,422)
• Port Carling, VL (pop 323)
• Tay wd (pop 5,442)
• Tiny wd (pop 4,386)

1911 census

• Christian Islands I R (pop 276)
• Coldwater, VL (pop 649)
• Matchedash wd (pop 459)
• Medonte wd (pop 3,361)
• Midland, T-V wd (pop 4,663)
• Orillia wd (pop 4,508)
• Orillia, T-V wd (pop 6,828)
• Penetanguishene, T-V wd (pop 3,568)
• Tay wd (pop 5,245)
• Tiny wd (pop 4,121)
• Victoria Harbour, VL (pop 1,616)

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 Simcoe North in 1891.
• Merged into Simcoe in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Simcoe_East

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.