Selkirk, Manitoba

Selkirk 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 Selkirk; not coterminous with town.

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

• Assiniboia (pop 1,548)
• Kildonan (pop 534)
• Springfield wd (pop 1,421)
• St. Boniface wd (pop 1,283)
• Winnipeg, C wd (pop 7,985)

1891 census

• Argyle wd (pop 2,272)
• Arthur wd (pop 666)
• Brandon, City—Cité wd (pop 3,778)
• Brenda wd (pop 1,016)
• Carleton (pop 1,484)
• Cornwallis wd (pop 1,254)
• Daly wd (pop 928)
• Deloraine wd (pop 1,928)
• Derby (pop 1,245)
• Douglas (pop 4,467)
• Dufferin N wd (pop 2,406)
• Dufferin S wd (pop 2,429)
• Elton wd (pop 1,534)
• Glenwood wd (pop 1,473)
• Inchiquin (pop 408)
• Lorne wd (pop 2,588)
• Louise wd (pop 2,551)
• Medora wd (pop 794)
• Morden, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,176)
• Oakland wd (pop 1,456)
• Pipestone wd (pop 1,100)
• Rhineland wd (pop 5,093)
• Riverside wd (pop 1,338)
• Sifton wd (pop 1,504)
• Turtle Mountain wd (pop 1,572)
• Virden, Town—Ville wd (pop 606)
• Wallace wd (pop 1,474)
• Whitehead wd (pop 1,464)
• Whitewater wd (pop 1,727)
• Woodworth wd (pop 1,495)

1901 census

• Assiniboia (pop 1,071)
• Brokenhead wd (pop 1,949)
• East Selkirk, Town—Ville wd (pop 272)
• Gimli wd (pop 3,008)
• Kildonan (part) (pop 803)
• Macdonald wd (pop 1,331)
• Posen (pop 1,539)
• Rockwood wd (pop 4,346)
• Rosser wd (pop 733)
• Selkirk, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,188)
• Springfield wd (pop 2,589)
• St. Andrews wd (pop 2,823)
• St. Clements wd (pop 1,929)
• St. François-Xavier wd (pop 2,170)
• St. Laurent wd (pop 769)
• St. Paul (pop 519)
• Unorganized Territory—Territoire non-organisé (pop 3,368)
• Woodlands wd (pop 1,199)

1911 census

• 134 townships
• Beausejour vl (T12 R7 ME1) wd (pop 847)
• Clandeboye I R wd (pop 496)
• Fisher River I R wd (pop 245)
• Gimli vl (T27 R4 ME1) wd (pop 496)
• Kildonan (pop 28)
• NO DATA
• Selkirk t-v wd (pop 2,977)
• St. Andrews wd (pop 7)
• St. Clements wd (pop 11)
• St. Pauls (pop 37)
• St. Peters (pop 18)
• Stonewall t-v wd (pop 1,005)
• Unorganized parts
• Winnipeg Beach vl (T17 R4 ME1) wd (pop 245)
• Winnipeg c pt wd

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 off from Extension in 1891.
• Merged into Lisgar in 1891.
• Split into Winnipeg City in 1891.
• Re-formed from Lisgar in 1901.
• Split into Brandon, Lisgar in 1901.
• Merged into Division No. 16 in 1921.
• Split into Division No. 5, Division No. 9 in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_MB_Selkirk

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.