Edson vl (T53 R17 MW5), Alberta (1911 census)

Name: Edson vl (T53 R17 MW5) (1911)
Address: Alberta, CA

Edson vl (T53 R17 MW5) was a village in Alberta, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 497. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q493025. The administrative centroid was at approximately 53.584°N, 116.437°W.

Population

In 1911, Edson vl (T53 R17 MW5) had a population of 497: 341 male and 156 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 White Whale Lake, 1901 (0.0% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, Edson vl (T53 R17 MW5) shared boundaries with:

226 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 497 total population, 341 males in the population, 215 single (never-married) males, 156 females in the population, 123 married males, 117 families, 78 married females, 76 single (never-married) females, 3 widowed males, 2 widowed females. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 109 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: AB002012 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_AB002012 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q493025
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson,_Alberta
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_(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). "Edson vl (T53 R17 MW5), Alberta (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ab/edson-vl-t53-r17-mw5-ab002012-1911/.