Algoma, Ontario

Algoma was an Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1861–1921 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 Q2140691.

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

1861 census

• Algoma, District (pop 4,018)
• Sault Ste. Marie, Village (pop 898)

1881 census

• Allan wd (pop 305)
• Assiginack wd (pop 881)
• Bidwell, Sheguiandah (pop 904)
• Billings, Campbell (pop 1,114)
• Bruce Mines, T-V wd (pop 472)
• Burpee, Robinson, Barrie Island (pop 538)
• Carnarvon wd (pop 550)
• Dawson, Cockburn Island (pop 298)
• Dennis (pop 248)
• Fort William wd (pop 690)
• Garden River wd (pop 876)
• Gordon, Mills (pop 809)
• Howland, Strawberry, Lacloche, Haywood Island (pop 598)
• Killarney wd (pop 405)
• Korah wd (pop 339)
• Lefroy wd (pop 381)
• Matawin (pop 1,465)
• Michipicoten (pop 310)
• Mississagua River (pop 360)
• Nipigon wd (pop 512)
• Pic (pop 536)
• Plummer wd (pop 349)
• Prince Arthur wd (pop 1,275)
• Sandfield (pop 482)
• Sault Ste. Marie wd (pop 780)
• Silver Islet (pop 448)
• Spanish River (pop 320)
• St. Joseph wd (pop 1,237)
• Tarbutt (pop 352)
• Tehkummah (pop 506)
• Thessalon wd (pop 749)
• Vankoughnet wd (pop 161)
• Wookwamakong (pop 1,070)

1891 census

• Allan wd (pop 317)
• Assiginack wd (pop 818)
• Barrie Island wd (pop 209)
• Beaver & Silver Mountain (pop 685)
• Bidwell (pop 458)
• Billings wd (pop 635)
• Biscotasing, Chapleau, Missanabi, White River, Peninsula & Schreiber (pop 2,280)
• Bruce Mines, T-V wd (pop 750)
• Burpee (pop 186)
• Campbell (pop 547)
• Carnarvon wd (pop 500)
• Chelmsford & Cartier (pop 755)
• Cockburn Island wd (pop 240)
• Dawson wd (pop 113)
• Day wd (pop 834)
• Duck Islands (pop 83)
• Echo River (pop 499)
• Fort Francis (pop 1,339)
• Garden River wd (pop 606)
• Gordon wd (pop 455)
• Gore Bay, Town—Ville wd (pop 472)
• Goulais Bay (pop 239)
• Grande Pointe (pop 137)
• Hawk Lake (pop 17)
• Hilton wd (pop 389)
• Howland (pop 1,255)
• Keewatin N (pop 572)
• Keewatin S (pop 844)
• Killarney wd (pop 501)
• Kirkwood wd (pop 185)
• Mamainse (pop 104)
• Michipicoten (pop 115)
• Mills (pop 188)
• Mississagua (pop 789)
• Murillo (pop 427)
• Neebing Centre & S (pop 1,118)
• Neebing N (pop 1,058)
• Nipigon & Pays Plat (pop 909)
• Norman wd (pop 726)
• Otter Tail (pop 873)
• Port Arthur Centre wd (pop 975)
• Port Arthur N wd (pop 907)
• Port Arthur S wd (pop 816)
• Port Findlay (pop 795)
• Rainy River, T-V wd (pop 871)
• Rat Portage E wd (pop 1,091)
• Rat Portage W-O wd (pop 715)
• Robinson wd (pop 318)
• Root River & Korah (pop 591)
• Sandfield (pop 280)
• Sault Ste. Marie, E wd (pop 471)
• Sault Ste. Marie, Town—Ville wd (pop 991)
• Sault Ste. Marie, W-O wd (pop 952)
• Savanne, Ignace, Barclay & Vermillion (Manitoulin) (pop 1,019)
• Sheguiandah (pop 423)
• Spanish River (pop 1,400)
• St. Joseph wd (pop 367)
• Tehkummah (pop 405)
• Tenby Bay (pop 369)
• Thessalon (Western Division) wd (pop 1,160)
• Unorganized Territory (pop 1,200)
• Wookwamakong (pop 1,191)

1901 census

• Aberdeen wd (pop 135)
• Alberton (pop 183)
• Ash Rapids (pop 70)
• Assiginack wd (pop 2,592)
• Aylesworth (pop 591)
• Bar River (pop 436)
• Barrie Island wd (pop 268)
• Batchawana (pop 175)
• Beaudro Fishery (pop 480)
• Beaver Mills (pop 470)
• Billings wd (pop 751)
• Bright & Bright Additional (pop 162)
• Burpee (pop 285)
• Campbell (pop 699)
• Carnarvon wd (pop 757)
• Chapleau wd (pop 750)
• Cockburn Island wd (pop 301)
• Coffin (pop 300)
• Day wd (pop 285)
• Desert Lake (pop 656)
• Dryden wd (pop 741)
• Emo wd (pop 730)
• Empress Mine (pop 169)
• English River (pop 221)
• Fenwick wd (pop 1,055)
• Fort Frances wd (pop 466)
• Fort William, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,997)
• Galbraith wd (pop 221)
• Garden (pop 686)
• Gladstone wd (pop 256)
• Gordon wd (pop 761)
• Gore Bay, Town—Ville wd (pop 723)
• Hawk Lake (pop 149)
• Hilton wd (pop 407)
• Howland (pop 1,217)
• Ignace wd (pop 291)
• Jocelyn wd (pop 452)
• John Island (pop 148)
• Kalmar (pop 232)
• Keewatin (P. Division) (pop 37)
• Keewatin (Township) (pop 1,156)
• Kirkwood wd (pop 161)
• Leeblain (pop 324)
• Little Current, Town—Ville wd (pop 728)
• Little Turtle Lake (pop 467)
• Macdonald wd (pop 518)
• Manitou (pop 115)
• McIrvine wd (pop 697)
• Meldrum Bay (pop 167)
• Michipicoten Harbour (pop 651)
• Michipicoten I R (pop 195)
• Mikado Mine (pop 416)
• Mills (pop 269)
• Mine Centre (pop 997)
• Missinaibi (pop 430)
• Morley wd (pop 532)
• Neebing wd (pop 403)
• Nipigon wd (pop 961)
• Northwest Point & Lefroy (pop 1,390)
• Oliver wd (pop 504)
• Parkinson wd (pop 258)
• Patton wd (pop 114)
• Picnic Island (pop 68)
• Pinewood (pop 387)
• Port Arthur wd (pop 71)
• Port Arthur, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,214)
• Prince wd (pop 207)
• Rat Portage wd (pop 187)
• Rat Portage, Town—Ville wd (pop 5,202)
• Regina Mine (pop 67)
• Robinson wd (pop 518)
• Rossport (pop 236)
• Rydal Bank (pop 525)
• Sandfield (pop 283)
• Sault Ste. Marie wd (pop 1,417)
• Sault Ste. Marie, Town—Ville wd (pop 7,169)
• Savanne (pop 222)
• Sawbill Lake (pop 568)
• Schreiber wd (pop 510)
• Shuniah (pop 22)
• Silver Creek (pop 449)
• St. Joseph wd (pop 1,137)
• Striker wd (pop 666)
• Sultana Mine (pop 212)
• Taché (pop 705)
• Tarbutt (pop 368)
• Tehkummah (pop 521)
• Thessalon wd (pop 606)
• Thessalon, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,205)
• Thompson (pop 189)
• Unorganized territory—Ter. non-organisé (pop 465)
• Vermilion Bay wd (pop 158)
• Wabigoon wd (pop 410)
• Wells wd (pop 160)
• White River wd (pop 831)
• Whitefish Station (pop 137)

1921 census

• Aberdeen wd (pop 288)
• Aird Island (pop 343)
• Algoma Central R.N. of Marne tp. to Franz Jet (pop 349)
• Awenge wd (pop 76)
• Aweres wd (pop 15)
• Bicknell (pop 34)
• Blind River, T-V wd (pop 1,843)
• Bright wd (pop 87)
• Bright Additional wd (pop 36)
• Bruce Mines, T-V wd (pop 477)
• C.P.R. from de Daiton to a White River (pop 656)
• Casgrain (pop 127)
• Cobden wd (pop 152)
• Coderre wd (pop 11)
• Curtis wd (pop 2)
• Day wd (pop 198)
• Deroche wd (pop 47)
• Devitt (pop 3)
• Ebbs wd (pop 5)
• Eilber (pop 29)
• Esten & Spragge (pop 571)
• Farquhar wd (pop 14)
• Fenwick wd (pop 167)
• Fisher wd (pop 65)
• Flanders wd (pop 16)
• Franz wd (pop 74)
• Galbraith wd (pop 198)
• Gaudette wd (pop 104)
• Gill (pop 4)
• Gladstone wd (pop 198)
• Gould wd (pop 28)
• Grassett (pop 127)
• Haig wd (pop 6)
• Hanlan (pop 136)
• Haviland (pop 14)
• Hawkins wd (pop 15)
• Hayward wd (pop 84)
• Hiawatha wd (pop 11)
• Hilton wd (pop 522)
• Hodgins wd (pop 310)
• Indian reserves (pop 1,596)
• Irving wd (pop 45)
• Jarvis wd (pop 32)
• Jocelyn wd (pop 344)
• Johnson wd (pop 752)
• Kapuskasing wd (pop 114)
• Kehoe wd (pop 8)
• Kendall (pop 408)
• Kirkwall wd (pop 6)
• Kirkwood wd (pop 32)
• Korah wd (pop 990)
• Laird wd (pop 531)
• Lefroy wd (pop 677)
• Legge wd (pop 6)
• Lessard wd (pop 9)
• Lewis wd (pop 487)
• Long wd (pop 45)
• Lougheed wd (pop 42)
• Lowther (pop 27)
• Macdonald wd (pop 595)
• Margery (pop 14)
• Marne wd (pop 78)
• Martin wd (pop 10)
• McMahon wd (pop 5)
• McMillan (pop 12)
• Meredith wd (pop 178)
• Michipicoten Harbour (pop 101)
• Montgomery wd (pop 1)
• Morin wd (pop 48)
• Mulloy (pop 18)
• Nagami (pop 1)
• NO DATA
• Parke wd (pop 49)
• Parkinson wd (pop 521)
• Patton wd (pop 102)
• Pennefather wd (pop 1)
• Plummer wd (pop 426)
• Plummer Additional wd (pop 435)
• Prince wd (pop 183)
• Proctor wd (pop 24)
• Rankin (pop 19)
• Rose wd (pop 95)
• Ryan wd (pop 19)
• Sault Ste. Marie, C wd (pop 21,092)
• Scarfe wd (pop 1)
• Shedden wd (pop 595)
• Shields wd (pop 26)
• Shuel (pop 16)
• Simpson wd (pop 4)
• St. Joseph Island wd (pop 1,017)
• Stefanson (pop 8)
• Stoddart (pop 14)
• Striker wd (pop 117)
• Studholme (pop 13)
• Tarbutt } Tarbutt Additional (pop 328)
• Tarentorus & St. Marys (pop 721)
• Templeton (pop 3)
• Territory W. of R. 28 N. of tp. 15 & S. of tp. 28 exclusive of Michipicoten Harbour (pop 130)
• Thessalon E (pop 692)
• Thessalon, T-V wd (pop 1,651)
• Thompson (pop 243)
• Tilley wd (pop 11)
• Townships N. of Gaudette, Marne, Archibald & Tulley (pop 152)
• Vankoughnet wd (pop 86)
• Victoria (pop 359)
• Walls wd (pop 7)
• Way (pop 1,205)
• Wells wd (pop 153)
• Whitman wd (pop 11)
• Wicksteed wd (pop 384)
• Woolrich wd (pop 5)

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 1861.
• Split into Algoma Centre, Algoma East (1871), Algoma West (1871), Manitoulin (1871) in 1871.
• Re-formed from Algoma Centre, Algoma East (1871), Algoma West (1871), Manitoulin (1871), Nipissing North, Nipissing South in 1881.
• Split off from The Territories in 1881.
• Split into Nipissing (1891–1921) in 1891.
• Split into Nipissing (1891–1921) in 1901.
• Split into Algoma West (1911), Thunder Bay & Rainy River in 1911.
• Re-formed from Algoma West (1911) in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Algoma
• Wikidata: Q2140691
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algoma_District
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_d%27Algoma

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.