Algoma West (1911), Ontario

Algoma West (1911) was an Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. ON federal/provincial electoral subdivision (West half of Algoma District); no Wikidata entity.

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

• Aberdeen wd (pop 234)
• Aweres wd (pop 14)
• Batchewana I R (pop 119)
• Bruce Mines, T-V wd (pop 689)
• Deroche wd (pop 871)
• English River (pop 110)
• Fenwick wd (pop 145)
• Fisher wd (pop 50)
• Garden River I R (pop 594)
• Gargantua (pop 71)
• Goulais Bay I R (pop 60)
• Haviland (pop 30)
• Hilton wd (pop 378)
• Jocelyn wd (pop 337)
• Johnson wd (pop 706)
• Kars (pop 47)
• Korah wd (pop 814)
• Laird wd (pop 476)
• Ley (pop 20)
• Macdonald wd (pop 566)
• Meredith wd (pop 145)
• Michipicoten Harbour (pop 1,001)
• Michipicoten I R (pop 54)
• Other parts (pop 1,122)
• Pennefather wd (pop 9)
• Plummer wd (pop 669)
• Prince wd (pop 213)
• Ryan wd (pop 18)
• Sault Ste. Marie, C wd (pop 10,984)
• St. Joseph Island wd (pop 1,098)
• Steelton t-v (pop 3,936)
• Tarbutt (pop 357)
• Tarentorus & St. Marys (pop 697)
• Transcontinental Ry
• Tupper (pop 1)
• Vankoughnet wd (pop 84)
• White River vl not incor (pop 401)

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 Algoma in 1911.
• Merged into Algoma in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Algoma_West_1911

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.