Thunder Bay, Ontario
Thunder Bay 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 Q385689.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 49,761 | 37 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1921 census
- Blake wd (pop 189)
- C.N.R. Armstrong -Fowler (pop 159)
- C.N.R. Barlow-Armstrong (pop 512)
- C.N.R. Conmee-Reba (pop 371)
- C.N.R. Mattawin-Windigo (pop 381)
- C.N.R. McKirdy-Taradale (pop 785)
- C.N.R. Whitefish Lake to International boundary (pop 66)
- C.P.R. Conmee-English River (pop 537)
- C.P.R., Denison to Nipigon not including Schreiber (pop 617)
- Conmee wd (pop 306)
- Crooks wd (pop 103)
- Dorion wd (pop 292)
- Forbes wd (pop 78)
- Fort William, C wd (pop 20,541)
- Gillies wd (pop 422)
- Gorham (pop 420)
- Indian reserves (pop 1,574)
- Lybster wd (pop 427)
- Lyon wd (pop 112)
- Macgregor wd (pop 94)
- Marks wd (pop 165)
- McIntyre wd (pop 799)
- McTavish wd (pop 139)
- Neebing wd (pop 347)
- Nipigon wd (pop 482)
- O'Connor wd (pop 394)
- Oliver wd (pop 944)
- Other parts (pop 136)
- Paipoonge wd (pop 991)
- Pardee wd (pop 28)
- Pearson wd (pop 253)
- Port Arthur, C wd (pop 14,886)
- Schreiber wd (pop 1,317)
- Scobel (pop 116)
- Stirling wd (pop 207)
- Strange wd (pop 177)
- Ware wd (pop 394)
Lineage
Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.
- Re-formed from Thunder Bay & Rainy River in 1921.
- Split off from Northwest Territories in 1921.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_ON_Thunder_Bay - Wikidata: Q385689
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Bay_District
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_de_Thunder_Bay
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.