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Census Division: Algoma West (1871) | Province: Ontario | Years active: 1871

Algoma West (1871), Ontario

Algoma West (1871) was an Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1871 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 Algoma); 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.

Year	Population	CSDs
1871	1,853	6

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1871 census

Batchewaning (pop 145)
Kaministikuia (pop 503)
Michipicoten (pop 228)
Nipigon wd (pop 438)
Pic (pop 371)
St. Ignace (pop 168)

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 1871.
Merged into Algoma in 1881.

Identifiers

HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Algoma_West

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.