Porcupine, Northwest Territories (1901 census)

Porcupine was a census subdivision in Northwest Territories, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 88. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.967°N, 114.312°W.

Population

In 1901, Porcupine had a population of 88: 59 male and 29 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 McLeod, 1891 (5.8% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, Porcupine shared boundaries with:

• Blairmore
• Cut Bank
• Kootenay, E., South Riding—Div. Sud
• Livingston
• Nanton
• Olsen

Full census record, 1901

The 1901 census recorded 10 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1901). This community's record includes 88 total population, 59 males, 42 single males, 29 females, 19 families, 17 married males, 15 married females, 14 single females. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Buildings & housing (1901). This community's record includes 18 houses. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Agriculture (1901). This community's record includes 599,424 total area (acres). (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: NT202097 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NT202097 — 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). "Porcupine, Northwest Territories (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nt/porcupine-nt202097-1901/.