Piney, Manitoba (1921 census)

Piney was a census subdivision in Manitoba, recorded in the 1921 Census of Canada with a population of 1,243. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q7195606. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.133°N, 96.043°W.

Population

In 1921, Piney had a population of 1,243: 673 male and 570 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 104 townships, 1911 (9.7% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1921

In the 1921 census, Piney shared boundaries with:

• Sprague
• Stuartburn
• Unorganized parts between tps 10 & 3 EPM to the provincial boundary

Full census record, 1921

The 1921 census recorded 30 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1921). This community's record includes 1,243 total population, 673 males in the population, 570 females in the population, 349 males born in Canada, 307 females born in Canada, 287 males born outside the British Empire, 221 females born outside the British Empire, 42 females born in the British Empire (excluding Canada), 37 males born in the British Empire (excluding Canada). (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T16.)

Ethnic origin (1921). This community's record includes 391 persons of Scandinavian origin, 288 persons of Austrian origin, 167 persons of British origin (English), 122 persons of French origin, 116 persons of other European origin, 43 persons of British origin (Irish), 36 persons of Polish origin, 31 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 20 persons of Ukrainian origin, 12 persons of Russian origin, 10 persons of German origin, 7 persons of Belgian origin. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T27.)

Religion (1921). This community's record includes 428 Lutherans, 358 Roman Catholics, 219 Greek (Orthodox) Church adherents, 113 Anglicans (Church of England), 49 Presbyterians, 46 Methodists, 28 adherents of other sects (residual category in 1921), 1 Congregationalists, 1 Protestants (general / no denomination specified). (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T38.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: MB155004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_MB155004 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q7195606
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piney,_Manitoba

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1921 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). "Piney, Manitoba (1921 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/mb/piney-mb155004-1921/.