Calgary, Alberta

Calgary was a Census Division in Alberta as recorded in the 1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. AB 1921 federal electoral district named after Calgary; centroid in foothills west of city. Not coterminous with City of Calgary.

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

1911 census

• 92 townships
• Acme, VL wd (pop 395)
• Airdrie, VL wd (pop 262)
• Anthracite vl (not inc) wd (pop 250)
• Banff (not inc) wd (pop 159)
• Bank Head vl (T26 R11 MW5) wd (pop 531)
• Calgary c wd (pop 270)
• Canmore vl (T24 R10 MW5) wd (pop 754)
• Carstairs, VL wd (pop 270)
• Cochrane, VL wd (pop 395)
• Crossfield, VL wd (pop 262)
• Exshaw vl (T24 R9 MW5) wd (pop 250)
• Gap (T24 R10 MW5) (pop 694)
• Langdon, VL wd (pop 159)
• NO DATA
• Rocky Mtn. Park (along C.P.R.) (pop 754)
• Sarcee I R wd
• Stony I R wd
• Strathmore, T-V wd (pop 531)

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 Alberta in 1911.
• Merged into Division No. 6 in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_AB_Calgary

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.