Qu’Appelle, Northwest Territories (1901 census)

Qu’Appelle was a census subdivision in Northwest Territories, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 1,535. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q1916627. The administrative centroid was at approximately 50.642°N, 103.951°W.

Population

In 1901, Qu’Appelle had a population of 1,535: 758 male and 777 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).

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 Qu’Appelle, 1891 (1.5% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, Qu’Appelle shared boundaries with:

• Edenwold
• Fort Qu’Appelle
• Indian Head
• Kranzberg
• Qu’Appelle, South—Sud
• St. Joseph
• Wide Awake

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 1,535 total population, 777 females, 758 males, 453 single males, 413 single females, 363 families, 291 married females, 281 married males, 73 widowed females, 24 widowed males. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Buildings & housing (1901). This community's record includes 363 houses. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Agriculture (1901). This community's record includes 72,000 total area (acres). (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 2 people connected to this place who were alive in 1901, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: NT203081 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NT203081 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q1916627
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu%27Appelle,_Saskatchewan
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu%27Appelle

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). "Qu’Appelle, Northwest Territories (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nt/qu-appelle-nt203081-1901/.