The Territories, Northwest Territories

The Territories was a Census Division in Northwest Territories as recorded in the 1851–1881 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. Composite/aggregate NWT census row; no single Wikidata entity covers the boundary.

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

1851 census

• NO DATA

1861 census

• NO DATA

1871 census

• NO DATA

1881 census

• Arctic Coast (pop 4,032)
• Athabaska (pop 8,200)
• Battleford (pop 4,830)
• Bow River (pop 3,275)
• Cumberland N (pop 565)
• Cumberland S (pop 1,255)
• Eastern Rupert's Land (pop 4,349)
• Edmonton (pop 3,126)
• Edmonton N (pop 1,159)
• Labrador (pop 1,035)
• McKenzie (pop 7,303)
• Norway House (pop 528)
• Oxford House (pop 535)
• Peace River (pop 2,315)
• Prince Albert wd (pop 3,236)
• Qu’Appelle wd (pop 5,241)
• Wood Mountain wd (pop 4,552)
• York Factory (pop 910)

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 into Algoma, Nipissing (1861), Peterborough, Renfrew, Victoria in 1861.
• Split into British Colombia, Manitoba in 1871.
• Split into Algoma in 1881.
• Split into Labrador, Alberta, Assiniboia East, Assiniboia West, Saskatchewan, The Unorganized Territories in 1891.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NT_The_Territories

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.