Medicine Hat, Alberta

Medicine Hat 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 Medicine Hat; 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

• 606 townships
• Aetna vl (T2 R25 MW4) wd (pop 164)
• Bassano vl (T21 R18 MW4) wd (pop 540)
• Blackfoot I R wd (pop 816)
• Bow Island vl (T10 R11 MW4) wd (pop 307)
• Brooks vl (T18 R14 MW4) wd (pop 486)
• Cardston t-v wd (pop 1,207)
• Diamond City vl (T10 R21 MW4) wd (pop 510)
• Gleichen vl (T22 R4 MW4) wd (pop 583)
• Grassy Lake vl (T10 R13 MW4) wd (pop 247)
• Irvine vl (T11 R2 MW4) wd (pop 372)
• Lethbridge c wd (pop 8,050)
• Magrath t-v wd (pop 995)
• Medicine Hat c wd (pop 5,608)
• Mountain View vl (T2 R27 MW4) wd (pop 89)
• Munson vl (T30 R20 MW4) wd (pop 92)
• NO DATA
• Queenston vl (T19 R22 MW4) wd (pop 666)
• Raymond t-v wd (pop 1,465)
• Redcliffe vl (T13 R6 MW4) wd (pop 220)
• Stafford vl (T9 R21 MW4) (pop 985)
• Sterling vl (T6 R19 MW4) wd (pop 514)
• Taber t-v wd (pop 1,400)
• Warner vl (T4 R17 MW4) wd (pop 321)

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. 1, Division No. 3, Division No. 5 in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_AB_Medicine_Hat

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.