Wellington North, Ontario

Wellington 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 of Wellington 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

• Amaranth wd (pop 1,943)
• Arthur wd (pop 4,376)
• Luther (pop 1,772)
• Maryborough wd (pop 4,418)
• Minto wd (pop 4,861)
• Mount Forest, Village wd (pop 1,370)
• Peel (pop 5,744)

1881 census

• Amaranth wd (pop 2,914)
• Arthur wd (pop 3,916)
• Arthur, Village wd (pop 1,257)
• Clifford, VL wd (pop 722)
• Harriston, T-V wd (pop 1,772)
• Luther E & W-O (pop 3,347)
• Maryborough wd (pop 4,551)
• Minto wd (pop 4,443)
• Mount Forest, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,170)
• Palmerston, Town—Ville wd (pop 536)
• Shelburne, Village wd (pop 242)

1891 census

• Amaranth wd (pop 2,799)
• Arthur wd (pop 3,224)
• Arthur, Village wd (pop 1,296)
• Clifford, VL wd (pop 634)
• Harriston, T-V wd (pop 1,687)
• Luther E & W-O (pop 4,222)
• Minto wd (pop 3,637)
• Mount Forest, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,214)
• Palmerston, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,006)
• Wallace wd (pop 3,237)

1901 census

• Amaranth wd (pop 2,798)
• Arthur wd (pop 2,961)
• Arthur, Village wd (pop 1,285)
• Clifford, VL wd (pop 608)
• Grand Valley, VL wd (pop 751)
• Harriston, T-V wd (pop 1,637)
• Luther, East—Est (pop 1,698)
• Luther, West—Ouest (pop 2,227)
• Minto wd (pop 3,128)
• Mount Forest, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,019)
• Palmerston, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,850)
• Wallace wd (pop 2,839)

1911 census

• Arthur wd (pop 2,401)
• Arthur, VL wd (pop 1,102)
• Clifford, VL wd (pop 595)
• Drayton, VL wd (pop 706)
• Garafraxa W (pop 1,951)
• Harriston, T-V wd (pop 1,491)
• Luther W (pop 1,822)
• Maryborough wd (pop 2,642)
• Minto wd (pop 2,665)
• Mount Forest, T-V wd (pop 1,839)
• Palmerston, T-V wd (pop 1,665)
• Peel (pop 3,413)

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 Wellington (1851–1861) in 1871.
• Re-formed from Wellington Centre in 1911.
• Merged into Wellington (1921) in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Wellington_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.