Division No. 3, Alberta

Division No. 3 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 Q2568585.

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

• 121. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 709)
• 122. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 530)
• 123. Sunny South (pop 380)
• 124. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 25)
• 125. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 142)
• 126. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 895)
• 151. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 1,115)
• 152. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 280)
• 153. King (pop 815)
• 154. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 111)
• 155. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 622)
• 156. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 919)
• 181. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 1,399)
• 182. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 656)
• 183. Britannia (pop 951)
• 184. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 170)
• 185. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 1,620)
• 186. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 701)
• 211.L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 624)
• 96. McLean (pop 1,251)
• Alderson, VL wd (pop 111)
• Bassano, T-V wd (pop 799)
• Brooks, T-V wd (pop 499)
• Duchess, VL wd (pop 116)
• Empress, VL wd (pop 394)
• Enchant, VL wd (pop 92)
• Jenner, VL wd (pop 98)
• Redcliffe, T-V wd (pop 1,137)
• Retlaw, VL wd (pop 154)
• Suffield, VL wd (pop 89)

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._3
• Wikidata: Q2568585
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_No._3,_Alberta
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_No_3_(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.