Pakan, Northwest Territories (1901 census)

Pakan was a census subdivision in Northwest Territories, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 366. The administrative centroid was at approximately 54.253°N, 112.645°W.

Population

In 1901, Pakan had a population of 366: 189 male and 177 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 Edmonton, 1891 (1.6% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, Pakan shared boundaries with:

• Athabaska Landing
• Bruderheim
• Lac La Biche
• Lamoureux
• Saddle Lake
• Star
• Two Lakes
• Whitefish Lake
• Whitford
• Wostock

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 366 total population, 189 males, 177 females, 109 single males, 98 single females, 85 families, 76 married males, 74 married females, 5 widowed females, 4 widowed males. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Buildings & housing (1901). This community's record includes 84 houses. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Agriculture (1901). This community's record includes 660,000 total area (acres). (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: NT202088 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NT202088 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.

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). "Pakan, Northwest Territories (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nt/pakan-nt202088-1901/.