Macdonald, Manitoba

Macdonald was a Census Division in Manitoba 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. MB 1921 federal electoral district named after John A. Macdonald; 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

1901 census

• Carberry, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,023)
• Cypress, North—Nord (pop 2,534)
• Cypress, South—Sud (pop 1,909)
• Gladstone, Town—Ville wd (pop 731)
• Langford wd (pop 1,616)
• Lansdowne wd (pop 2,121)
• Neepawa, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,418)
• Norfolk North—Nord (pop 3,781)
• Norfolk, South—Sud (pop 4,448)
• Ochre River (part) (pop 1,312)
• Portage la Prairie wd (pop 5,213)
• Portage la Prairie, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,901)
• Rosedale wd (pop 2,756)
• Unorganized Territory—Territoire non-organisé (pop 548)
• Westbourne wd (pop 3,760)

1911 census

• 104 townships
• Baie St. Paul pr (pop 539)
• Carman t-v wd (pop 1,271)
• Cypress River vl (T7 R12 MW3) (pop 305)
• Headingly pr wd (pop 332)
• High Bluff pr pt
• Holland vl (T7 R11 MW1) wd (pop 361)
• NO DATA
• Notre Dame de Lourdes pr wd (pop 442)
• Poplar Point pr (pop 246)
• Roland vl (T4 R4 MW1) wd (pop 433)
• St. Boniface pr
• St. Charles pr (pop 1,050)
• St. Francois Xavier pr wd (pop 732)
• St. James pr wd (pop 4,535)
• St. Laurent vl (T17 R4 MW1) wd (pop 581)
• Swan Lake I R wd (pop 116)

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 Marquette in 1901.
• Re-formed from Winnipeg City in 1911.
• Merged into Dauphin in 1911.
• Split into Portage La Prairie in 1911.
• Split into Division No. 6 in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_MB_Macdonald

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.