Yale (1881–1891), British Columbia

Yale (1881–1891) was a Census Division in British Columbia as recorded in the 1881–1891 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 Yale; 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

1881 census

• Kootenai (pop 863)
• Lytton and Cache Creek and Spence's Bridge and Kamloops (pop 4,725)
• Nicola, O’Kanagan (pop 1,199)
• Osoyoos (pop 117)
• Yale and Hope (pop 2,296)

1891 census

• Cache Creek wd (pop 697)
• Douglas Lake (pop 303)
• Grand Prairie (pop 826)
• Hope wd (pop 774)
• Kamloops wd (pop 1,517)
• Kootenay, Lower (pop 1,220)
• Kootenay, Upper (pop 2,185)
• Lytton wd (pop 1,338)
• Nicola (pop 752)
• Okanagan Mission wd (pop 348)
• Osoyoos (pop 711)
• Priest’s Valley wd (pop 739)
• Princeton wd (pop 220)
• Spallumcheen wd (pop 1,342)
• Spence’s Bridge wd (pop 307)
• Yale wd (pop 382)

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 British Colombia in 1881.
• Merged into Yale & Cariboo in 1901.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_BC_Yale

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.