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Year: 1911  |  Province: Saskatchewan

870 townships, Saskatchewan (1911 census)

870 townships was a census subdivision in Saskatchewan, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 67,326. The administrative centroid was at approximately 50.203°N, 107.698°W.

Population

In 1911, 870 townships had a population of 67,326. Population density was 2.2 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

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, 870 townships shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 54 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 2 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (5 variables)
VariableValue
POP13
POP F1
POP M8
POP PER SQ MI0.25
POP TOT67,326
Other recorded variables (49 variables)
VariableValue
ADVENTISTS258
ANGLICANS8,102
AREA ACRES23,474
AREA SQ MI36.68
AUSTRO HUNGARIAN889
BAPTISTS2,954
BELGIAN277
BRETHREN121
BRIT ENGLISH16,583
BRIT IRISH8,435
BRIT OTHER323
BRIT SCOTCH10,266
BULGARIAN AND RUMANIAN573
CHINESE8
CHRISTIANS309
CONGREGATIONALISTS417
DISCIPLES49
DUTCH755
DWELLINGS8
F MARRIED1
FAMILIES8
FRENCH4,256
FRIENDS54
GERMAN12,109
GREEK5
GREEK CHURCH892
INDIAN43
ITALIAN21
JAPANESE27
JEWISH57
JEWS58
LUTHERANS10,324
M MARRIED1
M SINGLE6
M WIDOWED1
MENNONITES4,270
METHODISTS13,188
MORMONS78
NEGRO17
POLISH100
PRESBYTERIANS13,504
PROTESTANTS699
ROMAN CATHOLICS9,511
RUSSIAN1,791
SALVATION ARMY71
SCANDINAVIAN6,517
SWISS141
UNSPECIFIED4,133
VARIOUS SECTS1,142

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1911 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). "870 townships, Saskatchewan (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/sk/870-townships-sk211001-1911/.