Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

Prince Albert 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

• 210 townships
• Barren Land I R (pop 305)
• Big River vl (T56 R7 MW3) wd (pop 516)
• Birch Hills vl (T46 R24 MW2) wd (pop 145)
• Cumberland House I R (pop 1,142)
• Deer Lake and Forks I R (pop 403)
• Duck Lake I R (pop 93)
• Duck Lake vl (T44 R2 MW3) wd (pop 379)
• Green Lake I R
• Hudson Bay Jc vl (T45 R3 MW2) wd
• Isle a la Crosse I R
• Kinistino vl (T45 R21 MW2) wd (pop 166)
• Lac la Loche I R (pop 6,254)
• Lac la Ronge I R (pop 599)
• Melfort t-v wd (pop 599)
• Montreal Lake I R (pop 203)
• NO DATA
• Pattiwagan I R (pop 305)
• Pelican Narrows I R (pop 403)
• Petaquakeys I R (pop 1,142)
• Prince Albert c wd (pop 6,254)
• Shellbrook vl (T49 R3 MW3) wd (pop 198)
• Sioux I R (pop 93)
• Stanley I R (pop 241)
• Star City vl (T45 R17 MW2) wd (pop 132)
• Sucker Point I R (pop 54)
• Tisdale vl (T45 R17 MW2) wd (pop 250)
• Unorganized parts (pop 155)

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. 14, Division No. 15, Division No. 16 in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_SK_Prince_Albert

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.