Cumberland, Nova Scotia

Cumberland was a Census Division in Nova Scotia as recorded in the 1871–1921 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. This CD is grounded to Wikidata Q2559621.

Population trajectory across census years

Aggregate population summed from constituent Census Subdivisions in this Census Division each year. Where the published 1851–1921 census volumes report a CD-level total, the figures should match within rounding; for cities split into wards, the per-CSD sum may diverge from the published CD aggregate.

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1871 census

• Advocate Harbor (pop 816)
• Amherst wd (pop 3,606)
• Amherst Shore wd (pop 2,054)
• Maccan wd (pop 1,162)
• Mills, Village (pop 2,483)
• Parrsborough Shore (pop 1,004)
• Pugwash (pop 3,199)
• River Hebert wd (pop 1,920)
• River Philip (pop 2,463)
• Wallace wd (pop 2,579)
• Wentworth wd (pop 1,146)
• Westchester (pop 1,086)

1881 census

• Advocate Harbor (pop 1,103)
• Amherst wd (pop 4,457)
• Amherst Shore wd (pop 2,315)
• Maccan wd (pop 2,585)
• Middleboro (pop 952)
• Mills, Village (pop 3,340)
• Parrsborough Shore (pop 1,206)
• Pugwash (pop 2,279)
• River Hebert wd (pop 2,025)
• River Philip (pop 2,974)
• Wallace wd (pop 2,336)
• Wentworth wd (pop 735)
• Westchester (pop 1,061)

1891 census

• Advocate Harbor (pop 1,152)
• Amherst wd (pop 2,548)
• Amherst Shore wd (pop 2,692)
• Amherst, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,781)
• Maccan wd (pop 1,013)
• Malagash (pop 748)
• Middleboro (pop 843)
• Oxford, T-V wd (pop 2,378)
• Parrsboro, T-V wd (pop 1,909)
• Parrsborough Shore (pop 1,232)
• Polling district No. 38 (pop 1,852)
• Pugwash (pop 2,160)
• River Hebert wd (pop 2,611)
• River Philip (pop 1,031)
• Rodney (pop 400)
• Springhill, T-V wd (pop 4,813)
• Wallace wd (pop 1,650)
• Wentworth wd (pop 745)
• Westchester (pop 971)

1901 census

• Advocate Harbor (pop 1,598)
• Amherst Head wd (pop 612)
• Amherst, Town—Ville wd (pop 4,964)
• Diligent River (pop 915)
• Doherty Creek (pop 451)
• East Amherst (pop 754)
• Fort Lawrence wd (pop 210)
• Joggins, T-V wd (pop 1,088)
• Linden (pop 994)
• Lower Cove (pop 367)
• Malagash (pop 670)
• Mansfield (pop 846)
• Middleboro (pop 814)
• Oxford, T-V wd (pop 1,285)
• Parrsboro, T-V wd (pop 2,705)
• Polling district No. 25 (pop 1,129)
• Polling district No. 26, 27, 28 (pop 3,430)
• Polling district No. 38 (pop 686)
• Polling district No. 6 (pop 881)
• Port Greville (pop 1,291)
• Pugwash (pop 850)
• Pugwash River (pop 762)
• River Hebert wd (pop 1,168)
• River Philip (pop 956)
• Rodney (pop 1,076)
• Shulee (pop 338)
• Six Mile Road (pop 832)
• Southampton (pop 908)
• Tidnish (pop 981)
• Wallace Bridge (pop 640)
• Wentworth wd (pop 709)
• West Amherst (pop 406)
• Westchester (pop 852)

1911 census

• Advocate wd (pop 950)
• Amherst Head wd (pop 456)
• Amherst, Town—Ville wd (pop 8,973)
• Apple River wd (pop 609)
• Chignecto Mines (pop 684)
• Diligent River (pop 750)
• Doherty Creek (pop 540)
• East Amherst (pop 803)
• Fort Lawrence wd (pop 174)
• Joggins, T-V wd (pop 1,648)
• Linden (pop 861)
• Lower Cove (pop 341)
• Malagash (pop 599)
• Mansfield (pop 716)
• Middleboro (pop 839)
• Nappan (pop 526)
• Oxford, T-V wd (pop 1,392)
• Parrsboro, T-V wd (pop 2,856)
• Port Greville (pop 1,141)
• Pugwash (pop 733)
• Pugwash River (pop 732)
• River Hebert wd (pop 1,534)
• River Philip (pop 967)
• Rodney (pop 601)
• Shulee (pop 289)
• Six Mile Road (pop 732)
• Southampton (pop 818)
• Springhill, T-V wd (pop 5,713)
• Tidnish (pop 982)
• Wallace Bridge (pop 586)
• Wentworth wd (pop 605)
• West Amherst (pop 528)
• Westchester (pop 865)

1921 census

• Advocate wd (pop 798)
• Amherst Head wd (pop 584)
• Amherst, Town—Ville wd (pop 9,998)
• Apple River wd (pop 592)
• Chignecto Mines (pop 843)
• Diligent River (pop 625)
• Doherty Creek (pop 440)
• East Amherst (pop 734)
• Fort Lawrence wd (pop 155)
• Indian reserves (pop 77)
• Joggins, T-V wd (pop 1,732)
• Linden (pop 751)
• Lower Cove (pop 395)
• Malagash (pop 537)
• Mansfield (pop 720)
• Middleboro (pop 713)
• Nappan (pop 380)
• Oxford, T-V wd (pop 1,402)
• Parrsboro, T-V wd (pop 2,748)
• Port Greville (pop 1,222)
• Pugwash (pop 914)
• Pugwash River (pop 669)
• River Hebert wd (pop 1,984)
• River Philip (pop 937)
• Rodney (pop 514)
• Shulee (pop 192)
• Six Mile Road (pop 703)
• Southampton (pop 767)
• Springhill, T-V wd (pop 5,681)
• Tidnish (pop 719)
• Wallace Bridge (pop 549)
• Wentworth wd (pop 652)
• West Amherst (pop 530)
• Westchester (pop 934)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

• Split off from Nova Scotia in 1871.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NS_Cumberland
• Wikidata: Q2559621
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_County,_Nova_Scotia
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Cumberland_(Nouvelle-%C3%89cosse)

Sources

Census Division boundaries derived from the Canadian Peoples / TCP 1851–1921 Census Subdivision boundary files (NAME_CD_<year> attributes, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan). Constituent-CSD memberships use the P10_falls_within CIDOC-CRM relationships emitted by the spatial CIDOC builder. Wikidata grounding for Census Divisions performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.