Rainy River, Ontario

Rainy River was a Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 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 Q943829.

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

1921 census

• Atwood wd (pop 309)
• Aylesworth (pop 132)
• Barwick wd (pop 86)
• Bigsby Island (pop 23)
• Blue wd (pop 181)
• Burris (pop 308)
• Carpenter wd (pop 294)
• CNR from Abievin to Farrington (pop 505)
• Crozier wd (pop 232)
• Curran wd (pop 87)
• Dance wd (pop 25)
• Devlin (pop 472)
• Dewart wd (pop 37)
• Dilke wd (pop 260)
• Dobie wd (pop 264)
• Farrington wd (pop 37)
• Fleming wd (pop 11)
• Fort Frances, T-V wd (pop 3,109)
• Halkirk wd (pop 40)
• Indian reserves (pop 884)
• Kingsford wd (pop 97)
• Lash wd (pop 778)
• Mather wd (pop 260)
• Mathieu wd (pop 37)
• McCrosson wd (pop 188)
• McIrvine wd (pop 83)
• Miscampbell wd (pop 114)
• Morley wd (pop 442)
• Morson wd (pop 129)
• Nelles wd (pop 163)
• Pattullo wd (pop 207)
• Potts wd (pop 161)
• Pratt wd (pop 76)
• Rainy River, T-V wd (pop 1,444)
• Richardson wd (pop 96)
• Roddick wd (pop 46)
• Roseberry wd (pop 146)
• Shenstone (pop 247)
• Sifton wd (pop 146)
• Spohn wd (pop 153)
• Sutherland wd (pop 63)
• Tait wd (pop 160)
• Tovell wd (pop 158)
• Unorganized territory N of CNR (pop 323)
• Unorganized territory S of CNR (pop 208)
• Watten wd (pop 12)
• Woodyatt wd (pop 124)
• Worthington wd (pop 184)

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 Thunder Bay & Rainy River in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Rainy_River
• Wikidata: Q943829
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainy_River_District
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_de_Rainy_River

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.