West Isles, New Brunswick (1921 census)

West Isles was a census subdivision in New Brunswick, recorded in the 1921 Census of Canada with a population of 1,245. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q7985568. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.982°N, 66.975°W.

Population

In 1921, West Isles had a population of 1,245: 646 male and 599 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

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

Full census record, 1921

The 1921 census recorded 25 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1921). This community's record includes 1,245 total population, 646 males in the population, 620 males born in Canada, 599 females in the population, 569 females born in Canada, 28 females born outside the British Empire, 25 males born outside the British Empire, 2 females born in the British Empire (excluding Canada), 1 males born in the British Empire (excluding Canada). (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T16.)

Ethnic origin (1921). This community's record includes 895 persons of British origin (English), 196 persons of British origin (Irish), 144 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 6 persons of French origin, 1 persons of German origin. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T27.)

Religion (1921). This community's record includes 574 Disciples of Christ, 398 Baptists, 184 adherents of other sects (residual category in 1921), 65 Methodists, 8 Anglicans (Church of England), 6 Presbyterians, 3 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified, 3 Protestants (general / no denomination specified), 2 Roman Catholics, 1 Christians (general / no denomination specified), 1 Congregationalists. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T27; V1T38.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: NB024015 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB024015 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q7985568
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Isles_Parish,_New_Brunswick

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). "West Isles, New Brunswick (1921 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/west-isles-nb024015-1921/.