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Province: Northwest Territories  |  Years recorded: 1881–1901  |  Wikidata: Q1916627

Qu’Appelle, Northwest Territories (1881–1901)

Qu’Appelle was a census subdivision in Northwest Territories, recorded in 3 censuses between 1881 and 1901. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q1916627, so it can be queried as a single entity even when its boundaries or census name varied across years. Population declined across the period (from 5,241 in 1881 to 1,535 in 1901).

Historical lineage

Ancestor places

Descendant places

Population trajectory across census years

Census yearPopulationPage
18815,241View 1881 detail →
18916,806View 1891 detail →
19011,535View 1901 detail →

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 8 people 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.

NameLifespanConnection
Cuthbert Grant1793–1854born here
Charles Pratt1816–1888born here
Joseph Cauchon1816–1885died here
Paskwāw1828–1889died here
Ahchuchwahauhhatohapit1845–1917born here
John Burn1851–1896died here
William McKay1852–1932born here
Frederick Charles Gilchrist1859–1896died here

Identifiers

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.