1911 Census: Regina

The 1911 Census marked the fifth regularly scheduled collection of national statistics. The census collection officially began on June 1, 1911 and the city of Regina, Saskatchewan recorded a population of 30,213 souls.  1911 saw a massive increase from 1906 when the last census of the city collected a total of 6,129 citizens! 

The Germantown Area

You may be interested to know that that a single area of Regina called Germantown might be important for you to search for Romanian ancestors.

Learn more about it in the article: Germantown 

1911 Census

This is what the 1911 Census Sub-Districts look like when you overlay them on the modern map of Regina.  Unlike in the 1906 Census: Regina Regina seems to have implemented numbering of houses for the 1911 Census!

Also overlayed on the map is the historical area of the city nicknamed Germantown.

Why have I done this work of creating these overlays? There are a small number of reasons:

  • Each census uses different naming and numbering for Districts and Sub-Districts so if you have an address you want to check you can waste a lot of time figuring each census out
  • Websites that make these census' available to you on-line have not done this work for some reason - my gift to you
  • Handwriting on a census can be nearly impossible to read sometimes unless you know what it might be saying.  Once you have an idea for what valid street names or addresses might be for a Sub-District you may suddenly be able to read what looked to be unreadable.
  • Just because different websites have tried to make the census' searchable does mean that the people who indexed them could read them any better than you.  This goes for the names of the people who appear on the census, the addresses and just about any other field captured.
  • I found that each time I had to go back to a census to look for someone new I had to re-learn things about the census or the Sub-District.  What you see here could be considered to be notes that I consider to be important to get back up to speed.

The Map

Year Country Province District Name District No. Sub-District Name Sub-District See it!
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 62 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 63 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 64 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 65 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 66 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 67 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 68 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 69 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 70 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 71 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 72 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 73 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 74 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 75 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 76 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 77 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 78 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 79 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 80 Ancestry.ca
1911 Canada Saskatchewan Regina 214 Regina 81 Ancestry.ca

Sub-District 62 Notes

No notes

Sub-District 63 Notes

I'm not 100% sure that I have the shape of Sub-District 63 correct.  This is another Sub-District that has only street names with no addresses.  Given the names of streets and perhaps the shapes of other surrounding Sub-Districts I made a guess.  Time may tell.  If you have some thoughts about this please contact me and explain it to me!

Sub-District 64 Notes

I'm not 100% sure that I have the shape of Sub-District 64 correct.  This is another Sub-District that has only street names with no addresses.  A confusing thing about this one is that given the names of streets that are recorded it seems to be saying that the Sub-District covers north AND south of Victoria Avenue and also extends north of the railway.  This means that they abandoned using Victoria Avenue as a north/south border as had been done with many of the other Sub-Districts that clearly follow this border. Further confusion is the inclusion of Ottawa Street and Toronto Street which I can't fathom how they were included into Sub-District 64.  I tried to work with what was recorded and the shapes of other surrounding Sub-Districts and I simply made a guess.  Time may tell.  If you have some thoughts about this please contact me and explain it to me!

Sub-District 65 Notes

Oddly, both this Sub-District and the neighbouring Sub-District 66 seem to capture the same side of the 1700 block of Toronto. Maybe there is some sort of explanation or my notes are wrong.  It doesn't make any sense to me if they mapped these Sub-Districts with irregular borders when there is no reason. If you have some thoughts about this please contact me and explain it to me!

Remember that 10th Avenue in this Sub-District is now called Saskatchewan Drive.

Sub-District 66 Notes

Oddly, both this Sub-District and the neighbouring Sub-District 65 seem to capture the same side of the 1700 block of Toronto. Maybe there is some sort of explanation or my notes are wrong.  It doesn't make any sense to me if they mapped these Sub-Districts with irregular borders when there is no reason. If you have some thoughts about this please contact me and explain it to me!

Remember that 10th Avenue in this Sub-District is now called Saskatchewan Drive.

Sub-District 67 Notes

Some Hotels.  Census Taker just wrote names of building and streets without addresses in many cases.  

Remember that 10th Avenue in this Sub-District is now called Saskatchewan Drive.

Sub-District 68 Notes

Super dense tiny Sub-District. A number of hotels and apartment buildings.

Remember that South Railway Street in this Sub-District is now called Saskatchewan Drive.

Sub-District 69 Notes

A number of hotels: Wascana Hotel (1730 Hamilton Street), Grand Hotel (Scarth & South Railway)) and Walden Hotel

Remember that South Railway Street in this Sub-District is now called Saskatchewan Drive.

Sub-District 70 Notes

There are women living at the YWCA. Not remarkable in itself but remember to check here if you are looking for ancestors.

Remember that South Railway Street in this Sub-District is now called Saskatchewan Drive.

Sub-District 71 Notes

Remember that South Railway Street in this Sub-District is now called Saskatchewan Drive.

Sub-District 72 Notes

Remember that South Railway Street in this Sub-District is now called Saskatchewan Drive.

Sub-District 73 Notes

No notes

Sub-District 74 Notes

Lots of street names without house numbers.  I don't know if the houses just didn't have numbers or if the Census taker just didn't write them down sometimes.  This is a guess at the area covered.

Remember that 16th Avenue in this Sub-District is now called College Avenue.

Sub-District 75 Notes

Remember that 16th Avenue in this Sub-District is now called College Avenue.

Sub-District 76 Notes

No notes

Sub-District 77 Notes

Census taker abbreviates Hamilton Street to "Ham Street" or just "Ham"

Remember that 16th Avenue in this Sub-District is now called College Avenue.

Sub-District 78 Notes

Remember that 16th Avenue in this Sub-District is now called College Avenue.

Sub-District 79 Notes

Sub-district 79 contains the patients in the new Regina General Hospital!  

Sub-District 80 Notes

Over in sub-district 80 you have the prisoners for the Regina Jail (on the land that became the University of Regina campus on College Avenue (formerly named 16th Avenue) and also a bit of a shantytown where people's homes are classified either as tents or shacks.  What a boomtown!  Sub-district 80 is an undefined area based on what I am seeing and I am not 100% certain where it was and how big it was. Give the shantytown a shake and see if some of your ancestors fall out! 

Forty One Columns of Information

  1. Dwelling house
  2. Family, household or institution
  3. Name of each person in the family, household or institution
  4. Place of habitation
  5. Gender
  6. Relationship to head of family or household
  7. Single, Married, Widowed, Divorced or Legally Separated
  8. Month of birth
  9. Year of birth
  10. Age at Last Birthday
  11. Country or place of birth
  12. Year of immigration to Canada, if an immigrant
  13. Year of naturalization, if formerly an alien
  14. Racial or tribal origin
  15. Nationality
  16. Religion
  17. Chief occupation or trade
  18. Living on own means
  19. Employer
  20. Employee
  21. Working on own account
  22. State where person is employed, as "on Farm," "in Woolen Mill," "at Foundry Shop," "in Drug Store," etc.
  23. Weeks employed in 1910 at chief occupation or trade
  24. Weeks employed in 1910 at other than chief occupation or trade, if any
  25. Hours of working time per week at chief occupation
  26. Hours of working time per week at other occupation, if any
  27. Total earnings in 1910 from chief occupation or trade
  28. Total earnings in 1910 from other than chief occupation or trade, if any
  29. Rate of earnings per hour when employed by the hour-cents
  30. Upon life $
  31. Against accident or sickness $
  32. Cost of insurance in census year $
  33. Months at school in 1910
  34. Can read
  35. Can write
  36. Language commonly spoken
  37. Cost of education in 1910 for persons over 16 Years of age at college, convent or university
  38. Blind
  39. Deaf and Dumb
  40. Crazy or Lunatic
  41. Idiotic or Silly

Regina in the Canada Census