Kaslo, British Columbia (1911 census)
Kaslo was a census subdivision in British Columbia, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 1,227. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q2956992. The administrative centroid was at approximately 50.325°N, 117.009°W.
Population
In 1911, Kaslo had a population of 1,227: 873 male and 354 female residents. Population density was 0.5 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.
Later boundary forms
- In a later year, this CSD became part of Kaslo, 1921 (78.3% share).
Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911
In the 1911 census, Kaslo shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1911
The 1911 census recorded 49 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.
Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 1,761,060 area in acres, 2,751.66 area in square miles, 1,227 total population, 873 males in the population, 592 single (never-married) males, 354 females in the population, 341 families, 248 married males, 175 single (never-married) females, 167 married females, 33 widowed males, 11 widowed females, 1 divorced females, 0.45 population per square mile. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)
Ethnic origin (1911). This community's record includes 399 persons of British origin (English), 243 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 132 persons of British origin (Irish), 125 persons of Scandinavian origin, 60 persons of German origin, 47 persons of Austro-Hungarian origin, 42 persons of Italian origin, 37 persons of French origin, 13 persons of Chinese origin, 10 persons of British origin (other), 8 persons of Russian origin, 6 persons of Belgian origin, 1 persons of Bulgarian or Romanian origin, 1 persons of Dutch origin, 1 persons of Polish origin. 3 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. 1 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). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.) The 1911 enumerator also recorded 20 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., 4 persons of Japanese origin — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.
Religion (1911). This community's record includes 366 Anglicans (Church of England), 220 Presbyterians, 176 Roman Catholics, 142 Lutherans, 112 Methodists, 74 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified, 72 adherents of various sects (residual category in 1911), 51 Mormons (Latter-day Saints), 50 Baptists, 14 Greek (Orthodox) Church adherents, 9 Congregationalists, 6 Christians (general / no denomination specified), 6 Friends (Quakers), 2 Adventists, 1 Salvation Army adherents. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2; V2T7.)
Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 341 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
BC009004— year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file - Persistent place ID:
PLACE_BC009004— computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years - Wikidata: Q2956992
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaslo
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). "Kaslo, British Columbia (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/bc/kaslo-bc009004-1911/.