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Year: 1911  |  Province: Manitoba

282 townships, Manitoba (1911 census)

282 townships was a census subdivision in Manitoba, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 37,230. The administrative centroid was at approximately 51.250°N, 99.508°W.

Population

In 1911, 282 townships had a population of 37,230. Population density was 3.6 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, 282 townships shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 54 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 2 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (4 variables)
VariableValue
POP F131
POP M162
POP PER SQ MI7.84
POP TOT37,230
Other recorded variables (50 variables)
VariableValue
ADVENTISTS32
ANGLICANS4,841
AREA ACRES23,909
AREA SQ MI37.36
AUSTRO HUNGARIAN8,147
BAPTISTS745
BELGIAN173
BRETHREN69
BRIT ENGLISH7,613
BRIT IRISH3,950
BRIT OTHER94
BRIT SCOTCH4,760
BULGARIAN AND RUMANIAN6
CHRISTIANS106
CONGREGATIONALISTS60
DISCIPLES52
DUTCH90
DWELLINGS89
F MARRIED47
F SINGLE76
F WIDOWED8
FAMILIES90
FRENCH3,097
FRIENDS20
GERMAN1,568
GREEK CHURCH7,685
INDIAN283
ITALIAN14
JEWISH171
JEWS171
LUTHERANS4,279
M DIVORCED1
M MARRIED52
M SINGLE103
M WIDOWED6
MENNONITES10
METHODISTS4,708
MORMONS9
NEGRO2
PAGANS8
POLISH1,631
PRESBYTERIANS5,971
PROTESTANTS976
ROMAN CATHOLICS6,748
RUSSIAN1,344
SALVATION ARMY25
SCANDINAVIAN2,801
SWISS14
UNSPECIFIED1,472
VARIOUS SECTS663

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). "282 townships, Manitoba (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/mb/282-townships-mb016001-1911/.