Halifax County, Nova Scotia

Halifax County was a Census Division in Nova Scotia as recorded in the 1881 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.

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1881 census

• Black Point (pop 1,051)
• Chezettcook (pop 1,550)
• Dartmouth wd (pop 1,777)
• Dartmouth, T-V wd (pop 3,786)
• East Dover wd (pop 1,176)
• Eastern Passage wd (pop 892)
• Fall River wd (pop 903)
• French Village wd (pop 759)
• Gays River (pop 786)
• Hammond Plains (pop 785)
• Jeddore (pop 2,073)
• Lawrencetown wd (pop 521)
• Little River (pop 320)
• Meagher Grant (pop 613)
• Middle Musquodoboit (pop 1,090)
• Musquodoboit Harbor (pop 1,384)
• Northwest Arm (pop 460)
• Polling District No. 15 (pop 535)
• Polling District No. 7 (pop 757)
• Pope's Harbor (pop 1,866)
• Port Dufferin (pop 798)
• Portuguese Cove (pop 611)
• Preston (pop 794)
• Sambro wd (pop 494)
• Sheet Harbour wd (pop 1,197)
• Smith Cove (pop 655)
• Spryfield (Prospect Road) wd (pop 438)
• Terence Bay wd (pop 505)
• Upper Musquodoboit (pop 1,143)
• Upper Prospect (pop 1,133)
• Windsor Road wd (pop 965)

Lineage

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

• Re-formed from Halifax East, Halifax West in 1881.
• Merged into Halifax City in 1891.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NS_Halifax_County
• 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.