Victoria North, Ontario

Victoria North was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1871–1901 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 half of Victoria 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

• Bexley wd (pop 489)
• Carden, Dalton (pop 1,027)
• Eldon wd (pop 3,052)
• Fenelon wd (pop 3,949)
• Laxton, Digby, Longford (pop 850)
• Lutterworth, Anson, Hindon (pop 515)
• Somerville wd (pop 1,074)

1881 census

• Anson & Hindon (pop 371)
• Bexley wd (pop 903)
• Carden wd (pop 916)
• Dalton wd (pop 530)
• Eldon wd (pop 3,778)
• Fenelon wd (pop 3,094)
• Fenelon Falls, VL wd (pop 1,155)
• Laxton, Digby, Longford (pop 957)
• Lutterworth wd (pop 586)
• Somerville wd (pop 1,509)

1891 census

• Anson & Hindon (pop 275)
• Bexley wd (pop 902)
• Carden wd (pop 815)
• Dalton wd (pop 509)
• Eldon wd (pop 3,145)
• Fenelon wd (pop 2,809)
• Fenelon Falls, VL wd (pop 1,219)
• Galway wd (pop 710)
• Laxton, Digby, Longford (pop 874)
• Lutterworth wd (pop 549)
• Minden wd (pop 1,182)
• Snowden (pop 1,014)
• Somerville wd (pop 1,940)
• Stanhope, Sherburne & McClintock (pop 583)
• Woodville (part), Village (pop 323)

1901 census

• Anson & Hindon (pop 300)
• Bexley wd (pop 907)
• Carden wd (pop 805)
• Dalton wd (pop 541)
• Digby & Longford (pop 219)
• Eldon wd (pop 2,994)
• Fenelon wd (pop 2,470)
• Fenelon Falls, VL wd (pop 1,132)
• Galway wd (pop 698)
• Laxton (pop 596)
• Lutterworth wd (pop 464)
• Minden wd (pop 1,170)
• Sherbourne & McClintock (pop 271)
• Snowden (pop 856)
• Somerville wd (pop 2,105)
• Stanhope wd (pop 500)
• Woodville (part), Village (pop 230)

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 Victoria in 1871.
• Merged into Victoria in 1911.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Victoria_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.