Thunder Bay & Rainy River, Ontario
Thunder Bay & Rainy River was a 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. Composite CD spanning Thunder Bay District (Q385689) + Rainy River District (Q943829); no single 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 120,362 | 127 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1911 census
- Along C P R between English & Kaministiquia rivers (pop 419)
- Along C. P. R. between English & Kaministiquia rivers (pop 539)
- Atwood & Curran (pop 297)
- Aubrey, Haycock, Langton, Mutrie, Sandford & Temple (pop 450)
- Aylesworth, Lash & Eno (not inc) (pop 605)
- Barwick, Dobie & Mather (pop 406)
- Bigsby Island, Dewart, Morson & Tovell (pop 261)
- Blake, Neebing, Pardee & Scoble (pop 301)
- Blue & Worthington (pop 317)
- Bowell & Wabigoon (pop 87)
- Britton, Rugby & Wainwright (pop 212)
- Burriss & Devlin (not inc) (pop 466)
- Conmee & Pearson (pop 191)
- Couchiching I R (pop 74)
- Crozier wd (pop 188)
- Devlin & Woodyat (pop 262)
- Devlin vl not inc-non-inc (pop 550)
- Dilke& Nelles (pop 353)
- Dorion, McGregor, McTavish & Pearl (pop 420)
- Dryden t-v wd (pop 6,158)
- Eaton & Van Home (pop 246)
- Eno vl not inc-non-inc (pop 48)
- Flemming, Potts & Richardson (pop 95)
- Fort Frances t-v wd (pop 1,242)
- Fort Frances, T-V wd
- Fort William c wd (pop 715)
- Fort William I R (pop 48)
- Fort William, C wd (pop 16,499)
- Gillies, Lybster & Marks (pop 859)
- Gorman, Mclntyre & Ware (pop 856)
- Graham vl (pop 550)
- Graham vl not inc-non-inc (pop 550)
- Grassy Narrows, Swan Lake & White Dog Post (pop 373)
- Gull Bay I R (pop 110)
- Heron Bay, Michipicoten Island & Port Caldwell (pop 421)
- Hungry Hall Bands I R (pop 47)
- Indian Reserves (pop 4,279)
- Jack Fish Island, Nipigon House Post, Tamarack Lake, Wabinosh Bay & Smooth Rock Lake (pop 244)
- Jaffray & Melick (pop 247)
- Keewatin t-v (pop 262)
- Kenora t-v wd (pop 1,578)
- Lac la Croix I R (pop 271)
- Lake of the Woods (pop 335)
- Lake Savant (pop 83)
- Little Forks I R (pop 65)
- Long Lake I R (pop 94)
- Long Lake Post (pop 299)
- Long Sault Bands I R (pop 47)
- Manitou Rapids Bands I R (pop 57)
- McCrosson, Pratt & Spohn (pop 301)
- Mclrvine (pop 32)
- Melgund (pop 305)
- Miscampbell wd (pop 65)
- Morley & Pattulo (pop 517)
- N W Bay I R (pop 214)
- Nickickouse I R (pop 36)
- Nipigon wd (pop 448)
- Nipigon House Post not inc-non-inc (pop 48)
- O'Connor wd (pop 371)
- Oliver wd (pop 772)
- Other parts-aut parties (pop 267)
- Paipoonge wd (pop 742)
- Paipoonge wd (pop 715)
- Pattullo wd (pop 6,158)
- Pays Plat I R (pop 232)
- Pearl (pop 1,242)
- Pellatt wd (pop 305)
- Pic I R (pop 45)
- Port Arthur c wd (pop 1,611)
- Port Arthur, C wd (pop 11,220)
- Port Caldwell (pop 47)
- Potts wd (pop 43)
- Pratt wd (pop 47)
- Railway Construction Camp 3 (pop 419)
- Railway Construction Camp 3 (pop 3,215)
- Rainy River t-v wd (pop 253)
- Rainy River, T-V wd (pop 1,578)
- Red Rock I R (pop 132)
- Richardson wd (pop 47)
- Roddick wd (pop 47)
- Roddick wd (pop 97)
- Roseberry wd (pop 311)
- Roseberry, Shenstone & Tait (pop 424)
- Rossport (pop 311)
- Rossport (pop 55)
- Rowell wd (pop 17)
- Rugby wd (pop 80)
- Sandford (pop 1,140)
- Schieiber & CPR line Schreiber to Jackfish (pop 54)
- Schreiber & C. P. R. line Schreiber to Jack Fish (pop 1,140)
- Scoble (pop 210)
- Seine River I R (pop 2,335)
- Shenstone (pop 50)
- Sifton wd (pop 50)
- Sifton & Sutherland (pop 73)
- Slavgecoming I R (pop 20)
- Smellie (pop 65)
- Smooth Rock Lake (pop 118)
- Spohn wd (pop 380)
- Stanley to Windigo on C.N. Ry., Silver Islet, High Island & Thunder Bay points (pop 380)
- Stanley to Windigo on CN Ry, Silver Islet, High Island & Thunder Bay points (pop 288)
- Strange wd (pop 288)
- Strange wd (pop 821)
- Sturgeon Lake District G.T.P (pop 821)
- Sturgeon Lake District GTP (pop 23)
- Sturgeon Lake I R (pop 16,499)
- Sutherland wd (pop 81)
- Swan Lake (pop 117)
- Tait wd (pop 21)
- Tamarack Lake (pop 44)
- Temple wd (pop 138)
- Tovell wd (pop 66)
- Transcontinental Ry Graham to mile 10 district E (pop 185)
- Transcontinental Ry. Graham to mile 10 district E (pop 1,827)
- Unorganised (pop 3,215)
- Van Home (pop 32)
- Wabigoon (pop 38)
- Wabinosh Bay (pop 179)
- Wainwright wd (pop 347)
- Watten wd (pop 347)
- Watten wd (pop 126)
- White DogPost (pop 129)
- Whitefish Bay I R (pop 11,220)
- Woodyat (pop 153)
- Worthington wd (pop 479)
- Zealand wd (pop 479)
- Zealand wd (pop 539)
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 Thunder Bay in 1921.
- Split into Rainy River in 1921.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_Thunder_Bay_&_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.