Division No. 8, Alberta

Division No. 8 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 Q2449042.

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

• 336. Success (pop 1,525)
• 337. Vimy wd (pop 1,229)
• 338. Hays (pop 2,558)
• 339. Pine Lake wd (pop 1,844)
• 340. Arthur (pop 1,929)
• 366. Dublin (pop 1,529)
• 367. Waverley (pop 2,071)
• 396. Haig (pop 1,470)
• 397. Lakeside (pop 1,617)
• 398. Lamerton (pop 2,342)
• 399. Crown (pop 3,460)
• 426. Melrose (pop 2,153)
• 427. Evergreen (pop 2,479)
• 428. Waterglen (pop 1,400)
• 429. Fertile Valley (pop 1,801)
• 456. Parkland (pop 2,561)
• 457. Lloyd George (pop 2,550)
• 458. Montgomery (pop 2,942)
• 459. Bigstone (pop 2,101)
• Alix, VL wd (pop 282)
• Bashaw, VL wd (pop 433)
• Bawlf, VL wd (pop 150)
• Big Valley, T-V wd (pop 1,057)
• Bittern Lake, VL wd (pop 48)
• Blackfalds, VL wd (pop 93)
• Botha, VL wd (pop 130)
• Camrose, T-V wd (pop 1,892)
• Clive, VL wd (pop 232)
• Daysland, T-V wd (pop 441)
• Delburne, VL wd (pop 215)
• Donalda, VL wd (pop 248)
• Erskine, VL wd (pop 198)
• Ferintosh, VL wd (pop 144)
• Gadsby, VL wd (pop 150)
• Halkirk, VL wd (pop 146)
• Heisler, VL wd (pop 118)
• Indian reserves (pop 896)
• Innisfail, T-V wd (pop 941)
• Lacombe, T-V wd (pop 1,133)
• Millet, VL wd (pop 208)
• Mirror, VL wd (pop 381)
• New Norway, VL wd (pop 137)
• Ohaton, VL wd (pop 60)
• Penhold, VL wd (pop 127)
• Ponoka, T-V wd (pop 1,594)
• Red Deer, C wd (pop 2,328)
• Stettler, T-V wd (pop 1,416)
• Wetaskiwin, C wd (pop 2,061)

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 Red Deer in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_AB_Division_No._8
• Wikidata: Q2449042
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_No._8,_Alberta
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_No_8_(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.