Provencher, Manitoba

Provencher 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 J.-N. Provencher; no modern county 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

• Cartier wd (pop 1,033)
• Emerson wd (pop 1,307)
• Emerson, Town—Ville wd (pop 977)
• Laveyrandrye (pop 3,293)
• Morris W-O (pop 2,526)
• Ste. Agathe wd (pop 2,360)

1891 census

• Cartier wd (pop 939)
• De Salaberry wd (pop 1,207)
• Emerson, Town—Ville wd (pop 660)
• Franklin wd (pop 1,662)
• Hanover wd (pop 1,177)
• Hespeler (pop 1,123)
• La Broquerie wd (pop 330)
• Montcalm wd (pop 1,688)
• Morris wd (pop 739)
• Morris, Town—Ville wd (pop 286)
• St. Boniface wd (pop 251)
• St. Boniface, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,553)
• St. Norbert (pop 960)
• Ste. Anne (pop 1,523)
• Tache wd (pop 910)
• Youville (pop 462)

1901 census

• De Salaberry wd (pop 1,807)
• Emerson, Town—Ville wd (pop 840)
• Franklin wd (pop 4,690)
• Hanover wd (pop 3,003)
• Kildonan (part) (pop 428)
• La Broquerie wd (pop 2,595)
• Montcalm wd (pop 2,628)
• Morris wd (pop 2,250)
• Morris, Town—Ville wd (pop 465)
• Ritchot wd (pop 2,040)
• St. Boniface wd (pop 585)
• St. Boniface, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,019)
• Tache wd (pop 1,387)
• Unorganized Territory—Territoire non-organisé (pop 125)

1911 census

• 104 townships
• Emerson t-v wd (pop 1,043)
• Letellier pr (pop 1,448)
• Lorette pr (pop 473)
• Morris t-v wd
• NO DATA
• Roseau I R wd (pop 434)
• St. Agathe pr
• St. Boniface c (pop 7,483)
• St. Boniface pr
• St. Jean Baptiste pr wd (pop 7,483)
• St. Malo pr wd (pop 1,043)
• St. Norbert pr wd (pop 598)
• St. Pie pr (pop 16)
• St. Pierre pr wd (pop 473)
• St. Vital pr (pop 1,540)
• Ste. Anne pr (pop 1,540)
• Thibeauville pr (pop 281)

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.
• Split into Division No. 1, Division No. 2 in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_MB_Provencher

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.