Waterloo North, Ontario

Waterloo 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 half of Waterloo 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

• Berlin, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,743)
• Waterloo N (pop 3,640)
• Waterloo, Village wd (pop 1,594)
• Wellesley wd (pop 5,710)
• Woolwich wd (pop 5,569)

1881 census

• Berlin, Town—Ville wd (pop 4,054)
• Waterloo N (pop 3,590)
• Waterloo, Village wd (pop 2,066)
• Wellesley wd (pop 5,752)
• Woolwich wd (pop 5,524)

1891 census

• Berlin, Town—Ville wd (pop 7,425)
• Elmira, VL wd (pop 1,069)
• Waterloo wd (pop 3,443)
• Waterloo, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,941)
• Wellesley wd (pop 5,609)
• Woolwich wd (pop 4,838)

1901 census

• Berlin, Town—Ville wd (pop 9,747)
• Elmira, VL wd (pop 1,060)
• Waterloo N (pop 3,411)
• Waterloo, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,537)
• Wellesley wd (pop 5,051)
• Woolwich wd (pop 4,318)

1911 census

• Berlin t-v wd (pop 15,196)
• Elmira, VL wd (pop 1,782)
• Waterloo N (pop 3,474)
• Waterloo t-v wd (pop 4,359)
• Wellesley wd (pop 4,757)
• Woolwich wd (pop 4,051)

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 Waterloo in 1871.
• Merged into Waterloo in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Waterloo_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.