Simcoe, Ontario

Simcoe 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 Q1437636.

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

• Adjala wd (pop 1,994)
• Barrie, Town of wd (pop 1,007)
• Essa wd (pop 1,507)
• Flos wd (pop 545)
• Gwillimbury (pop 3,894)
• Innisfil wd (pop 2,341)
• Medonte wd (pop 1,116)
• Mono wd (pop 2,689)
• Mulmer wd (pop 766)
• Nottawasaga wd (pop 1,887)
• Orillia and Matchedash (pop 725)
• Oro wd (pop 2,027)
• Sunnidale wd (pop 203)
• Tay wd (pop 600)
• Tecumseth (pop 3,998)
• Tiny wd (pop 748)
• Tossorontio (pop 492)
• Vespra wd (pop 626)

1861 census

• Adjala wd (pop 2,742)
• Barrie, Town of wd (pop 2,134)
• Bradford, Village wd (pop 961)
• Collingwood, Town of wd (pop 1,408)
• Essa wd (pop 2,904)
• Flos wd (pop 953)
• Gwillimbury, west (pop 3,603)
• Innisfil wd (pop 4,573)
• Medonte wd (pop 1,638)
• Mono wd (pop 3,626)
• Morrison and Muskoka (pop 297)
• Mulmer wd (pop 1,814)
• Nottawasaga wd (pop 3,890)
• Orillia and Matchedash (pop 1,394)
• Oro wd (pop 3,036)
• Reformatory Prison (pop 146)
• Sunnidale wd (pop 985)
• Tay and Tiny (pop 1,901)
• Tecumseth (pop 4,546)
• Tossorontio (pop 1,073)
• Vespra wd (pop 1,096)

1921 census

• Adjala wd (pop 1,613)
• Alliston, T-V wd (pop 1,376)
• Barrie, T-V wd (pop 6,936)
• Beeton, VL wd (pop 582)
• Bradford, VL wd (pop 961)
• Coldwater, VL (pop 658)
• Collingwood, T-V wd (pop 5,882)
• Creemore, VL wd (pop 653)
• Essa wd (pop 2,910)
• Flos wd (pop 3,034)
• Gwillimbury W (pop 1,994)
• Indian reserves (pop 267)
• Innisfil wd (pop 3,330)
• Matchedash wd (pop 507)
• Medonte wd (pop 2,723)
• Midland, T-V wd (pop 7,016)
• Nottawasaga wd (pop 4,110)
• Orillia N & S (pop 3,418)
• Orillia, T-V wd (pop 8,774)
• Oro wd (pop 3,098)
• Penetanguishene, T-V wd (pop 4,037)
• Port McNicoll, VL wd (pop 1,074)
• Stayner, T-V wd (pop 972)
• Sunnidale wd (pop 2,070)
• Tay wd (pop 3,159)
• Tecumseth (pop 2,942)
• Tiny wd (pop 4,026)
• Tossorontio (pop 1,672)
• Tottenham, VL wd (pop 494)
• Vespra wd (pop 2,281)
• Victoria Harbour, VL (pop 1,463)

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 into Muskoka (1871–1881), Simcoe North, Simcoe South in 1871.
• Re-formed from Simcoe East, Simcoe North, Simcoe South in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Simcoe
• Wikidata: Q1437636
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simcoe_County
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Simcoe

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.