Cowley vl (T7 R1 MW5), Alberta (1911 census)

Name: Cowley vl (T7 R1 MW5) (1911)
Address: Alberta, CA

Cowley vl (T7 R1 MW5) was a village in Alberta, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 806. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q5179752. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.567°N, 114.073°W.

Population

In 1911, Cowley vl (T7 R1 MW5) had a population of 806: 478 male and 328 female residents.

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

In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Cowley, 1901 (1.1% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, Cowley vl (T7 R1 MW5) shared boundaries with:

198 townships

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 11 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 2 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 806 total population, 478 males in the population, 328 females in the population, 304 single (never-married) males, 198 families, 173 married males, 165 single (never-married) females, 159 married females, 4 widowed females, 1 widowed males. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 189 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: AB003016 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_AB003016 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q5179752
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowley,_Alberta
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowley_(Alberta)

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). "Cowley vl (T7 R1 MW5), Alberta (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ab/cowley-vl-t7-r1-mw5-ab003016-1911/.