Division No. 1, Alberta

Division No. 1 was a Census Division in Alberta as recorded in the 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 Q2549614.

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

1921 census

• 1. L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 64)
• 2.L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 198)
• 3. L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 276)
• 31. L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 92)
• 32. L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 940)
• 33. Flowery Plain (pop 679)
• 34. Burlington (pop 995)
• 35. L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 311)
• 36. Warner wd (pop 946)
• 4. L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 803)
• 5. L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 852)
• 6. L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 426)
• 61. L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 716)
• 62. L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 871)
• 63. L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 813)
• 64. Forty Mile wd (pop 1,585)
• 65. Eureka (pop 1,321)
• 66. L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 1,561)
• 91. L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 1,122)
• 92. Excelsior (pop 813)
• 93. L.I.D.-D.A.L. (pop 1,289)
• 94. Bow Island wd (pop 990)
• Bow Island, T-V wd (pop 427)
• Burdett, VL wd (pop 182)
• Grassy Lake, VL wd (pop 161)
• Irvine, T-V wd (pop 356)
• Medicine Hat, C wd (pop 9,634)
• Milk River, VL wd (pop 181)
• Taber, T-V wd (pop 1,705)
• Walsh, VL wd (pop 74)
• Warner, VL wd (pop 281)

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 Medicine Hat in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_AB_Division_No._1
• Wikidata: Q2549614
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_No._1,_Alberta
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_No_1_(Alberta)

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.