Halifax East, Nova Scotia

Halifax East was a Census Division in Nova Scotia as recorded in the 1871 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. NS 1921 federal electoral subdivision (East half of Halifax County); no Wikidata entity.

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

• Chezettcook (pop 1,344)
• Dartmouth, T-V wd (pop 4,358)
• Eastern Passage wd (pop 818)
• Fall River wd (pop 998)
• Gays River (pop 716)
• Jeddore (pop 1,623)
• Lawrencetown wd (pop 504)
• Little River (pop 334)
• Meagher Grant (pop 500)
• Middle Musquodoboit (pop 1,031)
• Musquodoboit Harbor (pop 1,151)
• NO DATA
• Pope's Harbor (pop 1,705)
• Port Dufferin (pop 704)
• Preston (pop 715)
• Sheet Harbour wd (pop 1,023)
• Smith Cove (pop 503)
• Upper Musquodoboit (pop 1,078)
• Windsor Road wd (pop 850)

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.
• Merged into Halifax County in 1881.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NS_Halifax_East

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.