Medicine Hat, Northwest Territories (1891–1891)

Medicine Hat was a census subdivision in Northwest Territories, recorded in 1 census between 1891 and 1891. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q368241, so it can be queried as a single entity even when its boundaries or census name varied across years.

Historical lineage

Ancestor places

• split off from Wood Mountain in 1891

Descendant places

• later split into Thynne Flat in 1901
• later split into Medicine Hat, North—Nord in 1901
• later split into Walsh in 1901
• later split into Medicine Hat, Northwest— Nord-ouest in 1901
• later split into Medicine Hat, South—Sud in 1901
• later split into Dunmore in 1901
• later split into Seven Persons in 1901
• later split into Little Plume in 1901
• later split into Feldman Lake in 1901
• later split into Josephsburg in 1901
• later split into Eagle Butte in 1901
• later split into Graburn in 1901
• later split into Pend' Oreille in 1901

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_NT200002 — assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap
• Wikidata: Q368241
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_Hat
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_Hat

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.