Dumbarton, New Brunswick (1911 census)

Dumbarton was a census subdivision in New Brunswick, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 718. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3365812. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.412°N, 67.049°W.

Population

In 1911, Dumbarton had a population of 718: 387 male and 331 female residents. Population density was 4.5 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, Dumbarton shared boundaries with:

• Gladstone
• Manners Sutton
• New Maryland
• St. David
• St. George
• St. James
• St. Patrick
• Ste. Croix

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 29 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 101,837 area in acres, 718 total population, 387 males in the population, 331 females in the population, 260 single (never-married) males, 189 single (never-married) females, 159.12 area in square miles, 138 families, 116 married males, 114 married females, 27 widowed females, 10 widowed males, 4.51 population per square mile, 1 divorced males, 1 females with marital status not given. 711 population in the previous census (1901 reference column included in 1911 V1T1). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Ethnic origin (1911). This community's record includes 441 persons of British origin (Irish), 152 persons of British origin (English), 113 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 3 persons of Dutch origin. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

Religion (1911). This community's record includes 195 Baptists, 184 Presbyterians, 173 Methodists, 135 Roman Catholics, 26 Anglicans (Church of England), 9 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified, 3 Christians (general / no denomination specified), 2 Congregationalists. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2; V2T7.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 138 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: NB026004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB024004 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3365812
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbarton_Parish,_New_Brunswick
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroisse_de_Dumbarton

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1911 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "Dumbarton, New Brunswick (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/dumbarton-nb026004-1911/.