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.
| Year | Population | CSDs |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 11,269 | 21 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1911 census
- 411 townships
- Alix, VL wd (pop 267)
- Blackfalds, VL wd (pop 150)
- Bobtail I R wd (pop 88)
- Bowden, VL wd (pop 178)
- Castor, T-V wd (pop 1,659)
- Didsbury, T-V wd (pop 726)
- Erskine, VL wd (pop 131)
- Evarts vl (T38 R2 MW5) (pop 25)
- Gadsby, VL wd (pop 213)
- Innisfail, T-V wd (pop 602)
- Lacombe, T-V wd (pop 1,029)
- North Red Deer, VL wd (pop 304)
- Olds, T-V wd (pop 917)
- Penhold, VL wd (pop 94)
- Ponoka, T-V wd (pop 642)
- Provost, VL wd (pop 329)
- Red Deer, C wd (pop 2,118)
- Stettler, T-V wd (pop 1,444)
- Trochu, VL 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.