Battleford, Saskatchewan

Battleford was a Census Division in Saskatchewan 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. Pre-1911 SK named census district / federal electoral district; no modern county equivalent

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

• 423 townships
• Adanac, VL wd (pop 93)
• Battleford, T-V wd (pop 2,105)
• Big Island I R (pop 87)
• Biggar, T-V wd (pop 68)
• Buffalo River I R (pop 73)
• Canoe Lake I R (pop 79)
• Canoe River I R (pop 177)
• Cavell, VL wd (pop 52)
• Clear Lake I R (pop 522)
• Delmas, VL wd (pop 77)
• Denzil, VL wd (pop 106)
• English River I R (pop 75)
• Fielding, VL wd (pop 320)
• Fond du Lac I R (pop 105)
• Green Lake I R
• Harris, VL wd (pop 127)
• Island Lake I R (pop 107)
• Isle a la Crosse I R
• Kerrobert, T-V wd (pop 232)
• La Plonge I R
• Landis, VL wd (pop 57)
• Lashburn, VL wd (pop 104)
• Leney, VL wd (pop 322)
• Little Island Lake I R (pop 156)
• Little Pine I R (pop 130)
• Lloydminster (pt), T-V wd (pop 420)
• Luseland, VL wd (pop 92)
• Macklin, T-V wd (pop 121)
• Maidstone, VL wd (pop 121)
• Maymont, VL wd (pop 155)
• Meadow Lake I R (pop 255)
• Migratory Indians (pop 121)
• Moosemin I R (pop 245)
• NO DATA
• North Battleford, C wd (pop 537)
• Onion Lake I R (pop 24)
• Paynton, VL wd (pop 128)
• Perdue, VL wd (pop 317)
• Plenty, VL wd (pop 49)
• Portage la Loche I R
• Pound Maker I R (pop 160)
• Red Pheasant I R (pop 84)
• Rosetown, T-V wd (pop 65)
• Salvador, VL wd (pop 149)
• Scott, T-V wd (pop 73)
• Stony I R (pop 128)
• Sweet Grass I R (pop 1,335)
• Tessier, VL wd (pop 264)
• Thunderchild I R (pop 441)
• Unity, T-V wd (pop 149)
• Wilkie, T-V wd (pop 315)
• Zealandia, T-V wd (pop 264)

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 Unorganized Territories in 1911.
• Merged into Division No. 18 in 1921.
• Split into Division No. 12, Division No. 13, Division No. 17 in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_SK_Battleford

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.