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Year: 1911  |  Province: British Columbia  |  Wikidata: Q983026

Chilliwack, British Columbia (1911 census)

Chilliwack was a census subdivision in British Columbia, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 7,515. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q983026. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.088°N, 122.090°W.

Population

In 1911, Chilliwack had a population of 7,515: 4,784 male and 2,731 female residents. Population density was 22.4 people per square mile.

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, Chilliwack shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 58 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 215,040 area in acres, 7,515 total population, 4,784 males in the population, 3,201 single (never-married) males, 2,731 females in the population, 1,574 families, 1,520 single (never-married) females, 1,483 married males, 1,129 married females, 336 area in square miles, 91 widowed males, 80 widowed females, 22.37 population per square mile, 4 divorced males, 4 males with marital status not given, 1 divorced females, 1 legally separated females, 1 legally separated males. 3,680 population in the previous census (1901 reference column included in 1911 V1T1). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Ethnic origin (1911). This community's record includes 2,358 persons of British origin (English), 1,357 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 846 persons of British origin (Irish), 640 persons of Scandinavian origin, 300 persons of German origin, 272 persons of Chinese origin, 146 persons of Italian origin, 139 persons of Austro-Hungarian origin, 132 persons of French origin, 82 persons of British origin (other), 19 persons of Dutch origin, 19 persons of Russian origin, 18 persons of Polish origin, 12 persons of Bulgarian or Romanian origin, 11 persons of Swiss origin, 5 persons of Belgian origin. 771 persons recorded under the official census category "Indian"; corresponds to what is now described as Indigenous (First Nations; in northern enumerations also Inuit) origin. "Indian" was simultaneously a census category and the legal/administrative term under the Indian Act (1876). 3 persons recorded under the 1911 official census category "Jewish" (origin/ethnicity, distinct from the V2T2 religion category "Jews"). 2 persons recorded under the 1911/1921 official census category "Negro"; refers to people of African descent. Term is now considered offensive and is preserved here only as the historical source label. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.) The 1911 enumerator also recorded 92 persons recorded under the 1911 official census category "Hindu"; in 1911 this label denoted South Asian origin (not religious identification). Reflects period British-colonial conflation of religion and ethnicity; modern usage of "Hindu" is religious., 71 persons of Japanese origin — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Religion (1911). This community's record includes 1,602 Presbyterians, 1,480 Anglicans (Church of England), 1,416 Methodists, 1,252 Roman Catholics, 597 adherents of various sects (residual category in 1911), 538 Lutherans, 313 Baptists, 220 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified, 89 Greek (Orthodox) Church adherents, 57 Congregationalists, 51 Mormons (Latter-day Saints), 48 Adventists, 29 Christians (general / no denomination specified), 13 Protestants (general / no denomination specified), 4 Friends (Quakers), 3 Salvation Army adherents, 1 Disciples of Christ. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2; V2T7.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 1,548 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

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). "Chilliwack, British Columbia (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/bc/chilliwack-bc011001-1911/.