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Year: 1911  |  Province: Alberta

263 townships, Alberta (1911 census)

263 townships was a census subdivision in Alberta, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 33,048. The administrative centroid was at approximately 53.926°N, 111.607°W.

Population

In 1911, 263 townships had a population of 33,048. Population density was 3.7 people per square mile.

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Earlier boundary forms

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, 263 townships shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 52 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 2 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (4 variables)
VariableValue
POP F39
POP M58
POP PER SQ MI2.64
POP TOT33,048
Other recorded variables (48 variables)
VariableValue
ADVENTISTS142
ANGLICANS2,508
AREA ACRES23,474
AREA SQ MI36.68
AUSTRO HUNGARIAN14,058
BAPTISTS750
BELGIAN37
BRETHREN21
BRIT ENGLISH4,192
BRIT IRISH2,090
BRIT OTHER84
BRIT SCOTCH2,350
BULGARIAN AND RUMANIAN744
CHRISTIANS143
CONGREGATIONALISTS85
DISCIPLES42
DUTCH94
DWELLINGS22
F MARRIED17
F SINGLE22
FAMILIES22
FRENCH3,806
FRIENDS8
GERMAN1,799
GREEK7
GREEK CHURCH13,345
INDIAN294
ITALIAN7
JEWISH2
JEWS2
LUTHERANS1,436
M MARRIED18
M SINGLE39
M WIDOWED1
MENNONITES6
METHODISTS3,322
MORMONS2
NEGRO133
POLISH473
PRESBYTERIANS3,045
PROTESTANTS141
ROMAN CATHOLICS7,239
RUSSIAN924
SALVATION ARMY30
SCANDINAVIAN855
SWISS60
UNSPECIFIED1,039
VARIOUS SECTS709

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1911 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "263 townships, Alberta (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ab/263-townships-ab007001-1911/.