Cariboo (1921), British Columbia
Cariboo (1921) was a Census Division in British Columbia as recorded in the 1921 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. BC 1921 federal electoral district named after Cariboo region; not coterminous with modern Cariboo Regional District.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 39,834 | 10 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1921 census
- Cariboo (pop 3,269)
- Fort George (pop 7,050)
- Indian reserves (pop 5,719)
- Kamloops wd (pop 9,371)
- Kamloops, C wd (pop 4,501)
- Lillooet (pop 2,400)
- Merritt, C wd (pop 1,721)
- Prince George, C wd (pop 2,053)
- Salmon Arm, C wd (pop 627)
- Yale (pt) (pop 3,123)
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 Yale & Cariboo in 1921.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_BC_Cariboo_1921
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.