Yale & Cariboo, British Columbia

Yale & Cariboo was a Census Division in British Columbia as recorded in the 1901–1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. BC composite federal electoral district (Yale + Cariboo); no single Wikidata entity.

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

1901 census

• Cariboo (pop 3,507)
• Kootenay, E., North Riding—Div. Nord (pop 1,938)
• Kootenay, E., South Riding—Div. Sud (pop 6,508)
• Kootenay, W.—O., Nelson Riding—Div (pop 7,102)
• Kootenay, W.—O., Revelstoke Riding—Div (pop 3,003)
• Kootenay, W.—O., Rossland Riding—Div (pop 14,603)
• Kootenay, W.—O., Slocan Riding—Div (pop 5,321)
• Lillooet, East—Est (pop 789)
• Lillooet, West—Ouest (pop 3,196)
• Yale, East—Est (pop 4,930)
• Yale, North—Nord (pop 3,837)
• Yale, West—Ouest (pop 7,155)

1911 census

• Cariboo (pop 5,993)
• Enderby c wd
• Grand Forks wd (pop 2,914)
• Grand Forks, C wd (pop 1,577)
• Greenwood wd (pop 1,557)
• Greenwood, C wd (pop 778)
• Kamloops (pop 8,362)
• Kamloops, C wd (pop 3,772)
• Kelowna c wd (pop 1,663)
• Lillooet (pop 2,898)
• Merritt, C wd (pop 703)
• Okanagan (pop 11,275)
• Phoenix c wd (pop 662)
• Similkameen (pop 4,134)
• Vernon c wd (pop 2,671)
• Yale pt

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 Cariboo (1881–1891), Yale (1881–1891) in 1901.
• Split into Kootenay in 1911.
• Split into Cariboo (1921), Yale (1921) in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_BC_Yale_&_Cariboo

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.