Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories

Northwest Territories was a Census Division in Northwest Territories as recorded in the 1911–1921 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. This CD is grounded to Wikidata Q2007.

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

1911 census

• NO DATA
• NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
• Parts to be added to Man.
• Parts to be added to Ont.
• Parts to be added to Que.

1921 census

• NORTHWEST TERRITORIES (pop 7,234)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

• Re-formed from Unorganized Territories—Territoires non-organisés in 1911.
• Split off from Unorganized Territories in 1911.
• Split into Division No. 16, Kenora, Thunder Bay, Saguenay (1921) in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NT_Northwest_Territories
• Wikidata: Q2007
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territoires_du_Nord-Ouest

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.