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.

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1911 census

• Atwood wd (pop 297)
• Aubrey wd (pop 450)
• Aylesworth (pop 605)
• Barwick wd (pop 406)
• Bigsby Island (pop 261)
• Blake wd (pop 301)
• Blue wd (pop 317)
• Britton wd (pop 212)
• Burris (pop 466)
• C.P.R. Conmee-English River (pop 419)
• Carpenter wd (pop 191)
• Conmee wd (pop 188)
• Couchiching I R (pop 74)
• Crooks wd (pop 262)
• Crozier wd (pop 353)
• Curran wd (pop 420)
• Dance wd (pop 246)
• Dein (pop 95)
• Devlin vl not inc-non-inc (pop 550)
• Dewart wd (pop 859)
• Dilke wd (pop 856)
• Dobie wd (pop 373)
• Dorion wd (pop 421)
• Dryden, T-V wd (pop 6,158)
• Eno vl not inc-non-inc (pop 48)
• Eton wd (pop 244)
• Fleming wd (pop 247)
• Fort Frances, T-V wd (pop 1,242)
• Fort William I R (pop 48)
• Fort William, C wd (pop 715)
• Gillies wd (pop 335)
• Graham vl not inc-non-inc (pop 550)
• Grassy Narrows (pop 83)
• Gull Bay I R (pop 110)
• Haycock (pop 299)
• Heron Bay &Michi-picoten Island (pop 301)
• Hungry Hall Bands I R (pop 47)
• Jack Fish Island (pop 32)
• Jaffray (Kenora) (pop 305)
• Keewatin, T-V (pop 262)
• Kenora, T-V wd (pop 1,578)
• Kingsford wd (pop 65)
• Lac la Croix I R (pop 271)
• Lake of the Woods (pop 517)
• Lake Savant (pop 448)
• Langton wd (pop 371)
• Lash wd (pop 772)
• Little Forks I R (pop 65)
• Long Lake I R (pop 94)
• Long Lake Post (pop 742)
• Long Sault Bands I R (pop 47)
• Lybster wd (pop 305)
• Macgregor wd (pop 424)
• Manitou Rapids Bands I R (pop 57)
• Marks wd (pop 73)
• Mather wd (pop 380)
• McCrosson wd (pop 47)
• McIrvine wd (pop 87)
• Mclntyre, Gorman & Ware (pop 311)
• McTavish wd (pop 1,140)
• Melgund wd (pop 821)
• Melick (pop 288)
• Miscampbell wd (pop 347)
• Morley wd (pop 479)
• Morson wd (pop 539)
• Mutrie wd (pop 419)
• N W Bay I R (pop 214)
• Neebing wd (pop 1,827)
• Nelles wd (pop 4,279)
• Nickickouse I R (pop 36)
• Nipigon wd (pop 3,215)
• Nipigon House Post not inc-non-inc (pop 48)
• O'Connor wd (pop 16,499)
• Oliver wd (pop 11,220)
• Other parts-aut parties (pop 267)
• Paipoonge wd (pop 715)
• Pardee wd
• Pattullo wd (pop 6,158)
• Pays Plat I R (pop 232)
• Pearl (pop 1,242)
• Pearson wd (pop 1,578)
• Pellatt wd (pop 550)
• Pic I R (pop 45)
• Port Arthur, C wd (pop 1,611)
• Port Caldwell (pop 47)
• Potts wd (pop 43)
• Pratt wd (pop 47)
• Railway Construction Camp 3 (pop 3,215)
• Rainy River, T-V wd (pop 253)
• Red Rock I R (pop 132)
• Richardson wd (pop 47)
• Roddick wd (pop 97)
• Roseberry wd (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)
• Scobel (pop 210)
• Seine River I R (pop 2,335)
• Shenstone (pop 50)
• Sifton wd (pop 50)
• Slavgecoming I R (pop 20)
• Smellie (pop 65)
• Smooth Rock Lake (pop 118)
• Spohn wd (pop 380)
• Stanley to Windigo on CN Ry, Silver Islet, High Island & Thunder Bay points (pop 288)
• Strange wd (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)
• VanHorne (pop 32)
• Wabigoon (pop 38)
• Wabinosh Bay (pop 179)
• Wainwright wd (pop 347)
• Watten wd (pop 126)
• White Dog Post (pop 129)
• Whitefish Bay I R (pop 11,220)
• Woodyat (pop 153)
• Worthington 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.