Division No. 6, Alberta

Division No. 6 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 Q2668423.

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

• 216. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 449)
• 217. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 881)
• 218. Blackfoot (pop 1,865)
• 219. Bow Valley (pop 1,603)
• 220. Shepard (pop 2,277)
• 221. Springbank (pop 1,147)
• 222. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 369)
• 247. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 1,009)
• 248. Grasswold (pop 1,655)
• 249. Keoma (pop 1,286)
• 250. Beddington (pop 2,027)
• 251. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 904)
• 252. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 263)
• 278. Carbon (pop 4,504)
• 279. Norquay (pop 2,252)
• 280. Rosebud (pop 1,935)
• 281. Beaver Dam (pop 1,524)
• 282. L.I.D.- D.A.L. (pop 427)
• 308. Ghost Pine (pop 2,298)
• 309. Stauffer wd (pop 2,011)
• 310. Mountain View wd (pop 2,125)
• 311. Westerdale (pop 1,980)
• Acme, VL wd (pop 237)
• Airdrie, VL wd (pop 160)
• Banff (not inc) wd (pop 2,062)
• Beiseker, VL wd (pop 183)
• Calgary, C wd (pop 63,305)
• Carbon, VL wd (pop 312)
• Carstairs, VL wd (pop 328)
• Cochrane, VL wd (pop 268)
• Crossfield, VL wd (pop 211)
• Didsbury, T-V wd (pop 842)
• Gleichen, T-V wd (pop 668)
• Indian reserves (pop 1,630)
• Irricana, VL wd (pop 99)
• Langdon, VL wd (pop 128)
• Olds, T-V wd (pop 764)
• Rockyford, VL wd (pop 228)
• Rosebud, VL wd (pop 130)
• Strathmore, T-V wd (pop 584)
• Three Hills, VL wd (pop 471)
• Trochu, VL wd (pop 537)
• Unorganized parts between townships 21 and 31 - W. to provincial boundary (pop 2,252)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

• Re-formed from Calgary in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_AB_Division_No._6
• Wikidata: Q2668423
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_No._6,_Alberta
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_No_6_(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.