Lisgar, Manitoba

Lisgar was a Census Division in Manitoba as recorded in the 1881–1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. MB 1921 federal electoral district named after Lord Lisgar; no modern 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

• Rockwood wd (pop 1,575)
• St. Andrews wd (pop 2,366)
• St. Clément wd (pop 1,485)
• St. Paul (pop 360)

1891 census

• Assiniboia (pop 1,237)
• Belcourt (pop 1,019)
• East Selkirk (Town—Ville) & Varennes (pop 642)
• Fairford & Posen (pop 1,167)
• Gimli wd (pop 1,641)
• Kildonan (pop 571)
• Macdonald wd (pop 383)
• Plessis (Fort Alexander) (pop 1,296)
• Rockwood wd (pop 2,901)
• Selkirk, Town—Ville wd (pop 950)
• Springfield wd (pop 1,775)
• St. Andrews wd (pop 2,228)
• St. Clements wd (pop 1,849)
• St. François-Xavier wd (pop 1,105)
• St. Laurent wd (pop 1,697)
• St. Paul (pop 610)
• Woodlands wd (pop 1,032)

1901 census

• Argyle wd (pop 3,869)
• Carman, Village wd (pop 1,439)
• Dufferin wd (pop 5,527)
• Gretna, Village wd (pop 666)
• Lorne wd (pop 3,286)
• Louise wd (pop 4,208)
• Manitou, Village wd (pop 617)
• Morden, Village wd (pop 1,522)
• Pembina wd (pop 3,240)
• Plum Coulee, Village wd (pop 394)
• Rhineland wd (pop 9,891)
• Riverside wd (pop 1,601)
• Stanley wd (pop 5,169)
• Turtle Mountain wd (pop 3,523)

1911 census

• 47 townships
• Gretna vl (T1 R1 MW1) wd (pop 519)
• Manitou vl (T3 R8 MW1) wd (pop 639)
• Morden t-v wd (pop 1,130)
• Pilot Mound vl (T3 R11 MW1) wd (pop 457)
• Plum Coulee vl (T3 R3 MW1) wd (pop 380)
• Winkler vl (T2 R4 MW1) wd (pop 458)

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 Manitoba in 1881.
• Re-formed from Selkirk in 1891.
• Split off from Extension in 1891.
• Split off from Selkirk in 1901.
• Merged into Selkirk in 1901.
• Merged into Division No. 2 in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_MB_Lisgar

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.