Macleod, Alberta

Macleod was a 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 Fort Macleod; no modern county/CD equivalent.

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

• 198 townships
• Barons vl (T12 R23 MW4) wd (pop 1,137)
• Bellevue vl (T7 R3 MW5) wd (pop 286)
• Blairmore vl (T7 R4 MW5) wd (pop 463)
• Blood I R wd (pop 474)
• Carmangay vl (T13 R23 MW4) wd (pop 126)
• Cayley vl (T7 R28 MW4) wd (pop 1,557)
• Claresholm t-v wd (pop 1,182)
• Coleman vl (T8 R4 MW5) wd (pop 142)
• Cowley vl (T7 R1 MW5) wd (pop 806)
• Frank vl (T7 R3 MW5) wd (pop 250)
• Granum vl (T10 R26 MW4) wd (pop 481)
• High River t-v wd (pop 1,844)
• Hillcrest vl (T7 R3 MW5) wd (pop 303)
• Lille vl (T8 R3 MW5) wd (pop 305)
• Macleod t-v wd (pop 571)
• Nanton t-v wd (pop 516)
• NO DATA
• Okotoks t-v wd (pop 1,027)
• Passburg vl (T7 R3 MW5) (pop 116)
• Peigan I R wd (pop 809)
• Pincher City vl (T7 R3 MW4) wd (pop 245)
• Pincher Creek t-v wd (pop 75)
• Stavely vl (T14 R27 MW4) wd (pop 245)

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 Alberta in 1911.
• Split into Division No. 2, Division No. 4 in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_AB_Macleod

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.