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Year: 1911  |  Province: Alberta

411 townships, Alberta (1911 census)

411 townships was a census subdivision in Alberta, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 49,941. The administrative centroid was at approximately 52.142°N, 112.696°W.

Population

In 1911, 411 townships had a population of 49,941. Population density was 3.4 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, 411 townships shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 54 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 2 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (4 variables)
VariableValue
POP F13
POP M32
POP PER SQ MI1.23
POP TOT49,941
Other recorded variables (50 variables)
VariableValue
ADVENTISTS472
ANGLICANS5,901
AREA ACRES23,474
AREA SQ MI36.68
AUSTRO HUNGARIAN1,006
BAPTISTS2,827
BELGIAN125
BRETHREN46
BRIT ENGLISH13,771
BRIT IRISH5,499
BRIT OTHER576
BRIT SCOTCH6,941
BULGARIAN AND RUMANIAN53
CHINESE3
CHRISTIANS528
CONGREGATIONALISTS524
DISCIPLES236
DUTCH472
DWELLINGS10
F MARRIED5
F SINGLE7
F WIDOWED1
FAMILIES10
FRENCH1,289
FRIENDS113
GERMAN7,145
GREEK2
GREEK CHURCH353
INDIAN42
ITALIAN135
JEWISH182
JEWS180
LUTHERANS8,957
M MARRIED10
M SINGLE21
M WIDOWED1
MENNONITES556
METHODISTS11,400
MORMONS97
NEGRO14
POLISH146
PRESBYTERIANS8,559
PROTESTANTS569
ROMAN CATHOLICS4,695
RUSSIAN1,819
SALVATION ARMY168
SCANDINAVIAN5,805
SWISS223
UNSPECIFIED4,693
VARIOUS SECTS3,350

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). "411 townships, Alberta (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ab/411-townships-ab005001-1911/.