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Year: 1901  |  Province: Northwest Territories

Shepard, Northwest Territories (1901 census)

Shepard was a census subdivision in Northwest Territories, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 158. The administrative centroid was at approximately 50.926°N, 113.879°W.

Population

In 1901, Shepard had a population of 158: 100 male and 58 female residents. Population density was 1.3 people per square mile.

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, Shepard shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1901

The 1901 census recorded 24 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (13 variables)
VariableValue
Number of families56
Number of females58
Number of males100
Number of married females28
Number of married males34
Number of single females27
Number of single males65
Number of widowed females3
Number of widowed males1
POP F58
POP M100
POP TOT158
Total population158
Buildings & housing (1 variable)
VariableValue
Number of houses56
Agriculture (1 variable)
VariableValue
Total area (acres)80,128
Other recorded variables (9 variables)
VariableValue
AREA AC80,128
FAMILIES56
HOUSES56
MARRIED F28
MARRIED M34
SINGLE F27
SINGLE M65
WIDOWED F3
WIDOWED M1

Identifiers

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). "Shepard, Northwest Territories (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nt/shepard-nt202112-1901/.