Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories
Saskatchewan was a Census Division in Northwest Territories as recorded in the 1891–1901 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 Q5283474.
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.
| Year | Population | CSDs |
|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 11,150 | 3 |
| 1901 | 25,679 | 67 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1891 census
- Battleford (pop 2,790)
- Carrot River & Lake Winnipeg (pop 1,484)
- Prince Albert wd (pop 6,876)
1901 census
- Baljennie (pop 85)
- Barrier River (pop 7)
- Batoche wd (pop 372)
- Battleford, North—Nord wd (pop 513)
- Battleford, South—Sud wd (pop 1,089)
- Bellevue (pop 462)
- Birch Hills wd (pop 157)
- Birch River (pop 38)
- Brancepeth (pop 111)
- Bresaylor (pop 172)
- Butler (pop 181)
- Carlton (pop 220)
- Cedar Lake (pop 292)
- Colleston (pop 327)
- Crooked Lake (pop 172)
- Cumberland (pop 553)
- Devil Lake (pop 503)
- Domremy (pop 129)
- Duck Lake wd (pop 889)
- Ebenfeld (pop 574)
- Egg Lake (pop 391)
- Fish Creek (pop 780)
- Flett Springs (pop 86)
- Grand Rapids (pop 144)
- Green Lake (pop 205)
- Hague (pop 1,156)
- Halcro (pop 210)
- Island Lake (pop 241)
- Kinistino (pop 209)
- Kirkpatrick (pop 248)
- La Corne (pop 463)
- Lake La Ronge (pop 68)
- Meadow Lake (pop 108)
- Meota (pop 107)
- Mistawasis (pop 211)
- Montreal Lake (pop 90)
- Moose Lake (pop 174)
- Mossy Portage (pop 5)
- Muskeg Lake (pop 1,398)
- Nut Lake (pop 582)
- Onion Lake (pop 1,026)
- Osler (pop 620)
- Pas Mountain (pop 175)
- Pine Bluff (pop 83)
- Prince Albert, East—Est wd (pop 1,376)
- Prince Albert, North—Nord wd (pop 178)
- Prince Albert, West—Ouest wd (pop 721)
- Red Deer (pop 215)
- Red Deer River (pop 93)
- Rosthern wd (pop 2,088)
- Saskatoon, East—Est wd (pop 179)
- Saskatoon, West—Ouest wd (pop 311)
- Schmidtsburg (pop 178)
- Shellbrook wd (pop 115)
- St. Catherine (pop 186)
- St. Louis (pop 227)
- St. Léonard (pop 220)
- St. Michael (pop 94)
- Steep Creek (pop 85)
- Stony Creek (pop 412)
- Stony Lake (pop 86)
- Sturgeon Lake (pop 813)
- Sturgeon River (pop 37)
- The Pas (pop 813)
- Tiefengrund (pop 814)
- Waldheim wd (pop 650)
- Willoughby (pop 162)
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 The Territories in 1891.
- Split into Saskatoon in 1911.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_NT_Saskatchewan - Wikidata: Q5283474
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Saskatchewan
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_de_la_Saskatchewan
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.