Welland, Ontario
Welland 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 Q7981153.
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.
| Year | Population | CSDs |
|---|---|---|
| 1851 | 20,141 | 10 |
| 1861 | 24,988 | 13 |
| 1871 | 20,572 | 12 |
| 1881 | 26,152 | 12 |
| 1891 | 25,132 | 13 |
| 1901 | 26,090 | 14 |
| 1911 | 42,163 | 15 |
| 1921 | 66,668 | 17 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1851 census
- Bertie (pop 2,737)
- Chippewa (pop 1,193)
- Crowland (pop 1,478)
- Humberstone (pop 2,201)
- Pelham wd (pop 2,400)
- Stamford wd (pop 3,113)
- Thorold wd (pop 2,735)
- Thorold, Village wd (pop 1,091)
- Wainfleet. wd (pop 1,841)
- Willoughby wd (pop 1,352)
1861 census
- Bertie (pop 2,673)
- Chippawa, Village wd (pop 1,095)
- Clifton, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,292)
- Crowland (pop 1,457)
- Humberstone (pop 3,039)
- Pelham wd (pop 2,646)
- Port Erie, Village wd (pop 706)
- Stamford wd (pop 3,041)
- Thorold wd (pop 2,837)
- Thorold, Village wd (pop 1,616)
- Wainfleet. wd (pop 2,316)
- Welland, C wd (pop 731)
- Willoughby wd (pop 1,539)
1871 census
- Bertie (pop 2,933)
- Chippawa, Village wd (pop 922)
- Clifton, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,610)
- Crowland (pop 1,317)
- Humberstone (pop 2,472)
- Port Colborne, Village wd (pop 988)
- Port Erie, Village wd (pop 835)
- Stamford wd (pop 2,999)
- Thorold wd (pop 2,501)
- Thorold, Village wd (pop 1,635)
- Welland, C wd (pop 1,110)
- Willoughby wd (pop 1,250)
1881 census
- Bertie (pop 3,986)
- Chippawa, Village wd (pop 664)
- Clifton, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,347)
- Crowland (pop 1,318)
- Humberstone (pop 4,182)
- Port Colborne, Village wd (pop 1,716)
- Port Erie, Village wd (pop 722)
- Stamford wd (pop 3,162)
- Thorold wd (pop 2,456)
- Thorold, Village wd (pop 2,456)
- Welland, C wd (pop 1,870)
- Willoughby wd (pop 1,273)
1891 census
- Bertie (pop 4,222)
- Chippawa, Village wd (pop 523)
- Crowland (pop 1,107)
- Fort Erie, Village wd (pop 934)
- Humberstone (pop 2,842)
- Niagara Falls, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,349)
- Niagara Falls, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,179)
- Port Colborne, T-V wd (pop 1,154)
- Stamford wd (pop 2,099)
- Thorold wd (pop 2,316)
- Thorold, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,273)
- Welland, C wd (pop 2,035)
- Willoughby wd (pop 1,099)
1901 census
- Bertie (pop 3,189)
- Bridgeburg vl (pop 1,356)
- Chippawa, Village wd (pop 460)
- Crowland (pop 1,010)
- Fort Erie, Village wd (pop 890)
- Humberstone (pop 3,232)
- Niagara Falls, Town—Ville wd (pop 4,244)
- Niagara Falls, Village wd (pop 1,458)
- Port Colborne, T-V wd (pop 1,253)
- Stamford wd (pop 2,140)
- Thorold wd (pop 2,025)
- Thorold, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,979)
- Welland, C wd (pop 1,863)
- Willoughby wd (pop 991)
1911 census
- Bertie (pop 3,282)
- Bridgeburg vl (pop 1,770)
- Chippawa, Village wd (pop 707)
- Crowland (pop 1,667)
- Fort Erie, Village wd (pop 1,146)
- Humberstone (pop 3,417)
- Niagara Falls, C wd (pop 9,248)
- Pelham wd (pop 2,815)
- Port Colborne, T-V wd (pop 1,624)
- Stamford wd (pop 3,139)
- Thorold wd (pop 2,085)
- Thorold, T-V wd (pop 2,273)
- Wainfleet wd (pop 2,764)
- Welland, C wd (pop 5,318)
- Willoughby wd (pop 908)
1921 census
- Bertie (pop 3,305)
- Bridgeburg, T-V (pop 2,401)
- Chippawa, Village wd (pop 1,137)
- Crowland (pop 3,826)
- Crystal Beach, VL wd (pop 298)
- Fort Erie, Village wd (pop 1,546)
- Humberstone (pop 2,304)
- Humberstone, VL (pop 1,524)
- Niagara Falls, C wd (pop 14,764)
- Pelham wd (pop 2,936)
- Port Colborne, T-V wd (pop 3,415)
- Stamford wd (pop 7,495)
- Thorold wd (pop 4,739)
- Thorold, T-V wd (pop 4,825)
- Wainfleet wd (pop 2,582)
- Welland, C wd (pop 8,654)
- Willoughby wd (pop 917)
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_Welland - Wikidata: Q7981153
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welland_County
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.