Edmonton, Alberta

Edmonton was an 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 Edmonton; centroid is well north of city. Not coterminous with City of Edmonton.

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

• 226 townships
• Athabaska District
• Athabaska Landing vl (T66 R24 MW4) wd
• Bickerdike vl (T53 R20 MW5) wd (pop 150)
• Cardiff vl (T55 R25 MW4) wd (pop 246)
• Edmonton c wd (pop 24,900)
• Edson vl (T53 R17 MW5) wd (pop 497)
• Elm Park vl (T53 R24 MW4) (pop 140)
• Entwhistle vl (T53 R7 MW5) wd (pop 140)
• Indian Reserves
• Jasper Park (pop 1,562)
• Morinville vl (T55 R25 MW4) wd (pop 385)
• N. Edmonton vl (T53 R24 MW4) wd
• NO DATA
• Peace River District
• St. Albert t-v wd (pop 614)
• Stony Plain t-v wd (pop 505)
• Victoria Place vl (T53 R24 MW4) (pop 41)
• W. Edmonton vl (T53 R24 MW4)

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 Unorganized Territories in 1911.
• Split into Division No. 11, Division No. 12, Division No. 14, Division No. 15, Division No. 16, Division No. 17 in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_AB_Edmonton

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.