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Census Division: Nanaimo | Province: British Columbia | Years active: 1911–1921

Nanaimo, British Columbia

Nanaimo was a Census Division in British Columbia as recorded in the 1911–1921 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 Nanaimo; not coterminous with modern Regional District of Nanaimo.

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	31,822	8
1921	48,010	9

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1911 census

Cowichan (pop 3,864)
Esquimalt wd (pop 5,919)
Ladysmith including South Oyster, C wd (pop 3,295)
Nanaimo c wd (pop 8,168)
Nanaimo suburbs (pop 138)
Newcastle (pop 2,094)
Saanich wd (pop 6,026)
The Islands (pop 2,318)

1921 census

Cowichan (pop 4,973)
Duncan, C wd (pop 1,178)
Esquimalt wd (pop 6,484)
Indian reserves (pop 1,645)
Ladysmith including South Oyster, C wd (pop 1,967)
Nanaimo and suburbs, C wd (pop 9,088)
Newcastle (pop 4,178)
Saanich wd (pop 14,693)
The Islands (pop 3,804)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

Re-formed from Victoria in 1911.
Split off from Vancouver in 1911.

Identifiers

HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_BC_Nanaimo

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.