Inverness, Nova Scotia

Inverness was an 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 Q2630310.

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

• Broad Cove Marsh (pop 986)
• Cheticamp wd (pop 1,915)
• Hastings wd (pop 2,213)
• Judique wd (pop 1,919)
• Lake Ainslie E. (pop 816)
• Lake Ainslie W-O (pop 397)
• Mabou wd (pop 3,112)
• Margaree N. E. wd (pop 1,476)
• Margaree S. W.-O. (pop 1,029)
• Margarie (pop 1,442)
• Port Hood, T-V (pop 1,297)
• River Denys wd (pop 1,022)
• River Inhabitants (pop 1,095)
• Strath Lorne (pop 1,442)
• West Bay wd (pop 856)
• Whycocomagh (pop 2,398)

1881 census

• Broad Cove Marsh (pop 1,075)
• Cheticamp wd (pop 2,726)
• Glencoe (pop 1,216)
• Hastings wd (pop 2,357)
• Judique wd (pop 2,027)
• Lake Ainslie E. (pop 742)
• Lake Ainslie W-O (pop 430)
• Mabou wd (pop 2,088)
• Margaree N. E. wd (pop 1,451)
• Margaree S. W.-O. (pop 1,246)
• Margarie (pop 1,757)
• NO DATA
• Port Hood, T-V (pop 1,498)
• River Denys wd (pop 1,097)
• River Inhabitants (pop 1,077)
• Strath Lorne (pop 1,588)
• West Bay wd (pop 833)
• Whycocomagh (pop 2,443)

1891 census

• Broad Cove Marsh (pop 1,085)
• Cheticamp wd (pop 3,142)
• Glencoe (pop 1,055)
• Hillsboro (pop 997)
• Judique wd (pop 1,914)
• Lake Ainslie E. (pop 772)
• Lake Ainslie W-O (pop 417)
• Margaree N. E. wd (pop 1,461)
• Margaree S. W.-O. (pop 1,067)
• Margarie (pop 1,743)
• Pleasant Bay wd (pop 235)
• Poplar Grove (pop 1,061)
• Port Hastings (pop 1,681)
• Port Hawkesbury, T-V wd (pop 658)
• Port Hood, T-V (pop 1,646)
• River Denys wd (pop 1,089)
• River Inhabitants (pop 1,145)
• Strath Lorne (pop 1,514)
• West Bay wd (pop 808)
• Whycocomagh N. (pop 1,509)
• Whycocomagh, South side—Côté sud wd (pop 780)

1901 census

• Broad Cove Marsh (pop 988)
• Cheticamp wd (pop 2,480)
• Craignish wd (pop 607)
• Glencoe (pop 1,118)
• Hillsboro (pop 859)
• Judique wd (pop 808)
• Lake Ainslie E. (pop 621)
• Lake Ainslie W-O (pop 391)
• Long Point (pop 783)
• Margaree Harbour E. (pop 768)
• Margaree Harbour W.-O. (pop 604)
• Margaree N. E. wd (pop 1,260)
• Margaree S. W.-O. (pop 1,029)
• Pleasant Bay wd (pop 304)
• Poplar Grove (pop 968)
• Port Hastings (pop 834)
• Port Hawkesbury, T-V wd (pop 633)
• Port Hood, T-V (pop 1,891)
• River Denys wd (pop 976)
• River Inhabitants (pop 970)
• St. Joseph (pop 1,092)
• Strath Lorne (pop 1,681)
• West Bay wd (pop 713)
• Whycocomagh N. (pop 1,295)
• Whycocomagh, South side—Côté sud wd (pop 680)

1911 census

• Broad Cove Marsh (pop 959)
• Cheticamp wd
• Craignish wd (pop 525)
• Glencoe (pop 903)
• Hillsboro (pop 759)
• Inverness, T-V wd (pop 684)
• Judique wd (pop 1,350)
• Lake Ainslie E. (pop 517)
• Lake Ainslie W-O (pop 296)
• Margaree Harbour E. (pop 504)
• Margaree Harbour W.-O. (pop 1,068)
• Margaree N. E. wd (pop 868)
• Margaree S. W.-O. (pop 284)
• NO DATA
• Orangedale (pop 2,719)
• Pleasant Bay wd (pop 770)
• Poplar Grove (pop 761)
• Port Hastings (pop 1,399)
• Port Hawkesbury, T-V wd (pop 1,078)
• Port Hood (pop 825)
• Port Hood, T-V (pop 1,078)
• River Denys wd (pop 945)
• River Inhabitants (pop 1,081)
• St. Joseph
• Strath Lorne (pop 1,145)
• West Bay wd (pop 602)
• Whycocomagh N. (pop 556)
• Whycocomagh S. (pop 676)

1921 census

• Broad Cove Marsh (pop 871)
• Cheticamp wd (pop 2,580)
• Craignish wd (pop 455)
• Glencoe (pop 757)
• Hillsboro (pop 770)
• Indian reserves (pop 179)
• Inverness, T-V wd (pop 2,963)
• Judique wd (pop 1,210)
• Lake Ainslie E. (pop 472)
• Lake Ainslie W-O (pop 254)
• Margaree Harbour E. (pop 698)
• Margaree Harbour W.-O. (pop 526)
• Margaree N. E. wd (pop 1,043)
• Margaree S. W.-O. (pop 859)
• NO DATA
• Pleasant Bay wd (pop 270)
• Poplar Grove (pop 653)
• Port Hastings (pop 645)
• Port Hawkesbury, T-V wd (pop 869)
• Port Hood (pop 1,299)
• Port Hood, T-V (pop 805)
• River Denys wd (pop 700)
• River Inhabitants (pop 807)
• St. Joseph (pop 1,065)
• Strath Lorne (pop 1,020)
• West Bay wd (pop 637)
• Whycocomagh N. (pop 822)
• Whycocomagh S. (pop 579)

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_Inverness
• Wikidata: Q2630310
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverness_County,_Nova_Scotia
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_d%27Inverness_(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.