Ungava, Northwest Territories (1901 census)

Name: Ungava (1901)
Address: Northwest Territories, CA

Ungava was a census subdivision in Northwest Territories, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 5,113. The administrative centroid was at approximately 57.333°N, 74.033°W.

Population

In 1901, Ungava had a population of 5,113: 2,496 male and 2,617 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 NO DATA, 1891 (0.3% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, Ungava shared boundaries with:

NO DATA

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 5,113 total population, 2,617 females, 2,496 males, 1,846 single females, 1,694 families, 1,579 single males, 726 married females, 671 married males, 246 widowed males, 45 widowed females. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Buildings & housing (1901). This community's record includes 1,183 houses. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Agriculture (1901). This community's record includes 223,429,600 total area (acres). (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: NT206005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NT206005 — 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). "Ungava, Northwest Territories (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nt/ungava-nt206005-1901/.