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Census Division: Halifax City | Province: Nova Scotia | Years active: 1881–1921 | Wikidata: Q2630280

Halifax City, Nova Scotia

Halifax City was a Census Division in Nova Scotia as recorded in the 1881–1921 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 Q2630280.

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.

Year	Population	CSDs
1881	36,100	8
1891	38,495	7
1901	74,662	47
1911	78,490	48
1921	97,228	45

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1881 census

Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 1 (pop 7,998)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (pop 3,598)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 3 (pop 2,801)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 4 (pop 1,942)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 5, 1st Section (pop 4,221)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 5, 2nd Section (pop 9,324)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 6 (pop 6,170)
Sable Island wd (pop 46)

1891 census

Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 1 (pop 8,550)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (pop 3,672)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 3 (pop 2,332)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 4 (pop 1,715)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 5 (pop 14,347)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 6 (pop 7,821)
Sable Island wd (pop 58)

1901 census

Bedford wd (pop 220)
Bedford Basin wd (pop 865)
Chezzetcook E. (pop 1,006)
Chezzetcook W.-O. (pop 1,116)
Cole Harbour wd (pop 1,377)
Dartmouth, T-V wd (pop 4,806)
East Dover wd (pop 473)
Eastern Passage wd (pop 1,020)
Fall River wd (pop 1,004)
Ferguson Cove (pop 204)
French Village wd (pop 827)
Gays River (pop 728)
Hackett Cove (pop 883)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 1 (pop 6,069)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (pop 7,440)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 3 (pop 3,561)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 4 (pop 5,925)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 5 (pop 9,706)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 6 (pop 8,131)
Hammond Plains (pop 691)
Herring Cove wd (pop 438)
Hubbard Cove wd (pop 495)
Ingram River (pop 635)
Jeddore (pop 1,123)
Lawrencetown wd (pop 359)
Little River (pop 221)
Meagher Grant (pop 466)
Middle Musquodoboit (pop 945)
Musquodoboit Harbour wd (pop 908)
Northwest Arm (pop 481)
Port Dufferin (pop 1,120)
Porter Lake (pop 210)
Portuguese Cove (pop 485)
Preston (pop 498)
Preston Road (pop 493)
Sambro wd (pop 503)
Seaforth (pop 270)
Sheet Harbour wd (pop 1,583)
Ship Harbour wd (pop 856)
Shoal Bay (pop 1,092)
Smith Cove (pop 928)
Spry Bay wd (pop 893)
Spryfield (Prospect Road) wd (pop 443)
Terence Bay wd (pop 469)
Upper Musquodoboit (pop 1,219)
Upper Prospect (pop 455)
Windsor Road wd (pop 1,022)

1911 census

Bedford Basin wd (pop 1,008)
Canadian Navy (pop 595)
Chezzetcook E. (pop 800)
Chezzetcook W.-O. (pop 942)
Cole Harbour wd (pop 1,468)
Dartmouth, T-V wd (pop 5,058)
East Dover wd (pop 553)
Eastern Passage wd (pop 950)
Fall River wd (pop 760)
Ferguson Cove (pop 209)
French Village wd (pop 832)
Gays River
Hackett Cove (pop 816)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 1 (pop 6,841)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (pop 7,686)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 3 (pop 4,222)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 4 (pop 6,256)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 5 (pop 10,819)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 6 (pop 10,795)
Hammond Plains (pop 707)
Herring Cove wd (pop 380)
Hubbard Cove wd (pop 497)
Ingram River (pop 735)
Jeddore (pop 1,077)
Lawrencetown wd (pop 328)
Little River
Meagher Grant (pop 465)
Middle Musquodoboit (pop 959)
Musquodoboit Harbour wd (pop 889)
NO DATA
Northwest Arm (pop 762)
Port Dufferin (pop 950)
Porter Lake (pop 225)
Portuguese Cove (pop 438)
Preston (pop 519)
Preston Road (pop 653)
Sambro wd (pop 455)
Seaforth (pop 218)
Sheet Harbour wd (pop 1,354)
Ship Harbour wd (pop 878)
Shoal Bay (pop 1,007)
Smith Cove
Spry Bay wd (pop 735)
Spryfield (Prospect Road) wd (pop 413)
Terence Bay wd (pop 641)
Upper Musquodoboit (pop 1,163)
Upper Prospect (pop 428)
Windsor Road wd (pop 1,004)

1921 census

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 Halifax West in 1881.
Re-formed from Halifax County in 1891.

Identifiers

HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NS_Halifax_City
Wikidata: Q2630280
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_County,_Nova_Scotia
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Halifax_(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.