Chaplin, Northwest Territories (1901 census)

Chaplin was a census subdivision in Northwest Territories, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 69. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q1999596. The administrative centroid was at approximately 50.572°N, 106.764°W.

Population

In 1901, Chaplin had a population of 69: 45 male and 24 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.

Later boundary forms

• In a later year, this CSD contained Morse vl (T17 R8 MW3), 1911 (0.0% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, Chaplin shared boundaries with:

• Buffalo
• Dundurn
• Eagle Quill Lake
• Old Wives Lake
• Parkbeg
• Saskatchewan Landing
• Swift Current
• Wood Mountain

Full census record, 1901

The 1901 census recorded 12 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1901). This community's record includes 69 total population, 45 males, 33 single males, 24 females, 15 families, 15 single females, 9 married males, 7 married females, 3 widowed males, 2 widowed females. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Buildings & housing (1901). This community's record includes 15 houses. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Agriculture (1901). This community's record includes 1,408,440 total area (acres). (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: NT204010 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NT204010 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q1999596
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplin,_Saskatchewan

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1901 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). "Chaplin, Northwest Territories (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nt/chaplin-nt204010-1901/.