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AUDIT ROW #389 · CENSUS AND PRESS RECORD AT THE GROUND'S SIZE
The Great Migration transformed the county's city; at Walkerton's scale it registers as the counts in the frame article — a community in single digits through the migration decades — and the industrial-ceiling question is answered by the town's industrial record itself. Walkerton's works (glass, pickle, canning, composites) hired from a farm township's labour pool; no Black industrial workforce, and no documented colour line drawn at a Walkerton hiring gate, stands in the census manuscripts or press record as reached. The ceiling, if the word applies at all here, was demographic before it was industrial: a town that drew almost no Black settlement in the decades when the county's city drew thousands. The row closes mixed, at that stated strength — the migration's local shape printed as a finding, the manuscript-census limb (household-by-household, the settler for any family the aggregates miss) named as the county manuscript schedules.