Selkirk, Town—Ville, Manitoba (1891–1901)

Selkirk, Town—Ville was a town in Manitoba, recorded in 2 censuses between 1891 and 1901. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q1018239, so it can be queried as a single entity even when its boundaries or census name varied across years. Population grew substantially across the period (from 950 in 1891 to 2,188 in 1901).

Historical lineage

Ancestor places

• split off from St. Clément in 1891

Population trajectory across census years

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 1 person connected to this place across the 1851–1921 period, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry; the connection tag indicates whether the documented event was a birth, death, or burial at this place.

Identifiers

• Persistent place ID: PLACE_MB011011 — assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap
• Wikidata: Q1018239
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkirk,_Manitoba
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkirk_(Manitoba)

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1851–1921 Census of Canada series, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project. Each year's detail page (linked above) cites the specific source table.