Simcoe North, Ontario

Simcoe North 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 (north 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

1871 census

• Barrie, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,398)
• Collingwood, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,829)
• Flos wd (pop 1,756)
• Medonte wd (pop 2,541)
• Nottawasaga wd (pop 6,704)
• Orillia, Matchedash (pop 1,894)
• Orillia, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,322)
• Oro wd (pop 4,364)
• Sunnidale wd (pop 1,991)
• Tay wd (pop 1,629)
• Tiny wd (pop 3,214)
• Vespra wd (pop 2,077)

1881 census

• Barrie, Town—Ville wd (pop 4,854)
• Collingwood, Town—Ville wd (pop 4,445)
• Flos wd (pop 3,141)
• Medonte wd (pop 3,632)
• Midland, T-V wd (pop 1,095)
• Nottawasaga wd (pop 6,971)
• Orillia, Matchedash (pop 3,097)
• Orillia, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,910)
• Oro wd (pop 4,566)
• Penetanguishene, T-V wd (pop 1,089)
• Stayner, T-V wd (pop 1,028)
• Sunnidale wd (pop 2,802)
• Tay wd (pop 2,993)
• Tiny wd (pop 3,736)
• Vespra wd (pop 2,879)

1891 census

• Barrie, Town—Ville wd (pop 5,550)
• Collingwood, Town—Ville wd (pop 4,939)
• Creemore, VL wd (pop 721)
• Flos wd (pop 3,782)
• Nottawasaga wd (pop 6,060)
• Stayner, T-V wd (pop 1,357)
• Sunnidale wd (pop 2,772)
• Vespra wd (pop 3,022)

1901 census

• Barrie, Town—Ville wd (pop 4,894)
• Collingwood, Town—Ville wd (pop 5,755)
• Creemore, Village wd (pop 654)
• Flos wd (pop 3,897)
• Nottawasaga wd (pop 5,342)
• Stayner, T-V wd (pop 1,225)
• Sunnidale wd (pop 2,367)
• Vespra wd (pop 2,830)

1911 census

• Collingwood, T-V wd (pop 7,090)
• Creemore, VL wd (pop 643)
• Flos wd (pop 3,239)
• Nottawasaga wd (pop 4,432)
• Oro wd (pop 3,485)
• Stayner, T-V wd (pop 1,039)
• Sunnidale wd (pop 2,175)
• Vespra wd (pop 2,596)

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 in 1871.
• Split into Simcoe East in 1891.
• Merged into Simcoe in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Simcoe_North

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.