Moosejaw, Saskatchewan

Moosejaw 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

• 870 townships
• Alsask vl (T28 R29 MW3) wd (pop 59)
• Bounty vl (T29 R10 MW3) wd (pop 182)
• Brock vl (T28 R20 MW3) wd (pop 171)
• Brownlee vl (T20 R1 MW3) wd (pop 606)
• Cacon t-v
• Eyebrow vl (T21 R2 MW3) wd (pop 559)
• Gull Lake vl (T13 R19 MW3) wd (pop 74)
• Herbert vl (T17 R9 MW3) wd (pop 290)
• Keeler vl (T20 R28 MW2) wd (pop 88)
• Kindersley t-v wd (pop 1,852)
• Maple Creek t-v wd (pop 175)
• Marquis vl (T19 R27 MW2) wd (pop 80)
• Moosejaw c wd (pop 456)
• Morse vl (T17 R8 MW3) wd (pop 219)
• Mortlach vl (T17 R1 MW3) wd (pop 90)
• Netherhill vl (T29 R21 MW2) wd (pop 204)
• NO DATA
• Swift Current t-v wd (pop 117)
• Tompkins vl (T13 R21 MW3) wd (pop 121)
• Tugaske vl (T22 R3 MW3) wd (pop 75)
• Tuxford vl (T19 R26 MW2) wd (pop 121)
• Webb vl (T14 R17 MW3) wd (pop 75)

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 Assiniboia West in 1911.
• Split into Division No. 3, Division No. 4, Division No. 7, Division No. 8 in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_SK_Moosejaw

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.