Red Deer, Alberta

Red Deer 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 Red Deer; 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

• 411 townships
• Alix vl (T39 R23 MW4) wd (pop 267)
• Blackfalds vl (T39 R27 MW4) wd (pop 150)
• Bobtail I R wd (pop 88)
• Bowden vl (T34 R1 MW5) wd (pop 178)
• Castor vl (T37 R4 MW4) wd (pop 1,659)
• Didsbury t-v wd (pop 726)
• Erskine vl (T39 R20 MW4) wd (pop 131)
• Evarts vl (T38 R2 MW5) (pop 25)
• Gadsby vl (T38 R17 MW4) wd (pop 213)
• Innisfail t-v wd (pop 602)
• Lacombe t-v wd (pop 1,029)
• North Red Deer vl (T38 R27 MW4) wd (pop 304)
• Olds t-v wd (pop 917)
• Penhold vl (T36 R28 MW4) wd (pop 94)
• Ponoka t-v wd (pop 642)
• Provost vl (T39 R2 MW4) wd (pop 329)
• Red Deer t-v wd (pop 2,118)
• Stettler t-v wd (pop 1,444)
• Trochu vl (T33 R23 MW4) wd (pop 353)
• Unorganized parts

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. 7, Division No. 8, Division No. 9 in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_AB_Red_Deer

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.