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Year: 1911  |  Province: Alberta

606 townships, Alberta (1911 census)

606 townships was a census subdivision in Alberta, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 44,969. The administrative centroid was at approximately 50.341°N, 111.607°W.

Population

In 1911, 606 townships had a population of 44,969. Population density was 2.1 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, 606 townships shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 53 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 2 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (4 variables)
VariableValue
POP F1
POP M4
POP PER SQ MI0.16
POP TOT44,969
Other recorded variables (49 variables)
VariableValue
ADVENTISTS487
ANGLICANS5,258
AREA ACRES23,474
AREA SQ MI36.68
AUSTRO HUNGARIAN1,433
BAPTISTS2,683
BELGIAN109
BRETHREN65
BRIT ENGLISH10,793
BRIT IRISH4,101
BRIT OTHER390
BRIT SCOTCH5,396
BULGARIAN AND RUMANIAN10
CHINESE98
CHRISTIANS425
CONGREGATIONALISTS517
DISCIPLES18
DUTCH673
DWELLINGS2
F MARRIED1
FAMILIES2
FRENCH1,219
FRIENDS48
GERMAN6,385
GREEK25
GREEK CHURCH102
INDIAN16
ITALIAN197
JAPANESE87
JEWISH30
JEWS30
LUTHERANS7,548
M MARRIED1
M SINGLE3
MENNONITES118
METHODISTS6,859
MORMONS3,334
NEGRO3
PAGANS25
POLISH153
PRESBYTERIANS6,955
PROTESTANTS616
ROMAN CATHOLICS6,061
RUSSIAN1,806
SALVATION ARMY106
SCANDINAVIAN5,034
SWISS145
UNSPECIFIED6,866
VARIOUS SECTS3,057

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). "606 townships, Alberta (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ab/606-townships-ab004001-1911/.