Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

Lunenburg 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 Q142312.

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

• Blandford (pop 428)
• Blockhouse (pop 3,129)
• Bridgewater wd (pop 2,912)
• Chester wd (pop 2,846)
• Conquerall (pop 1,166)
• Lunenburg, T-V wd (pop 3,231)
• Mill Cove (pop 434)
• New Germany wd (pop 2,851)
• New Ross (pop 972)
• Petite Rivière (pop 2,572)
• Ritcey's Cove (pop 1,594)
• Summerside (pop 1,203)
• Tancook (pop 496)

1881 census

• Blandford (pop 536)
• Blockhouse (pop 3,888)
• Bridgewater wd (pop 3,487)
• Chester wd (pop 2,974)
• Conquerall (pop 1,369)
• Lunenburg, T-V wd (pop 4,007)
• Mill Cove (pop 539)
• New Germany wd (pop 3,608)
• New Ross (pop 1,072)
• Petite Rivière (pop 3,250)
• Ritcey's Cove (pop 1,827)
• Summerside (pop 1,454)
• Tancook (pop 572)

1891 census

• Blandford (pop 608)
• Blockhouse (pop 4,153)
• Bridgewater wd (pop 3,936)
• Chester wd (pop 3,050)
• Conquerall (pop 1,418)
• Lunenburg, T-V wd (pop 4,894)
• Mill Cove (pop 619)
• New Germany wd (pop 3,838)
• New Ross (pop 1,127)
• Petite Rivière (pop 3,415)
• Ritcey's Cove (pop 1,934)
• Summerside (pop 1,513)
• Tancook (pop 570)

1901 census

• Baker Settlement (pop 855)
• Barss Corner wd (pop 981)
• Blandford (pop 593)
• Blockhouse (pop 905)
• Blue Rocks wd (pop 1,117)
• Bridgewater, East—Est (pop 797)
• Bridgewater, North—Nord (pop 1,181)
• Chesley Corner (pop 1,652)
• Chester Basin wd (pop 578)
• Chester E. (pop 832)
• Chester W.-O. (pop 978)
• Conquerall Bank wd (pop 599)
• Cross Roads (pop 1,147)
• Dublin Shore (pop 1,043)
• First South (pop 616)
• Hebbs Mills (pop 1,022)
• Italy Cross (pop 495)
• LaHave Island (pop 418)
• Lunenburg, T-V wd (pop 2,916)
• Maders Cove (pop 556)
• Mahone Bay wd (pop 866)
• Mahone Bay Road (pop 689)
• Midville Branch (pop 761)
• Mill Cove (pop 658)
• New Cornwall (pop 648)
• New Ross (pop 1,264)
• Northfield (pop 677)
• Oakland (pop 1,326)
• Petite Rivière (pop 572)
• Pleasantville wd (pop 803)
• Ritcey Cove (pop 1,027)
• Tancook (pop 629)
• Upper Lahave wd (pop 774)
• Vogler Cove wd (pop 799)
• Waterloo (pop 777)
• Western Shore wd (pop 838)

1911 census

• Baker Settlement (pop 815)
• Barss Corner wd (pop 945)
• Blandford (pop 628)
• Blockhouse (pop 833)
• Blue Rocks wd (pop 902)
• Bridgewater t-v (pop 2,775)
• Chesley Corner (pop 624)
• Chester Basin wd (pop 850)
• Chester E. (pop 1,096)
• Chester W.-O. (pop 646)
• Conquerall Bank wd (pop 1,058)
• Dublin Shore (pop 670)
• Feltzen S. wd (pop 302)
• First South (pop 454)
• Garden Lots (pop 921)
• Hebbs Mills (pop 566)
• Hemford (pop 680)
• Indian Point (pop 434)
• Italy Cross (pop 508)
• LaHave Island (pop 951)
• Lunenburg, T-V wd (pop 2,681)
• Maders Cove (pop 625)
• Mahone Bay wd (pop 769)
• Mahone Bay Road (pop 671)
• Midville Branch (pop 790)
• Mill Cove (pop 1,372)
• New Cornwall (pop 664)
• New Ross (pop 613)
• Northfield (pop 611)
• Oakland (pop 739)
• Parks Creek (pop 691)
• Petite Rivière (pop 469)
• Pleasantville wd (pop 592)
• Riversport (pop 802)
• Rose Bay (Cross Roads) (pop 830)
• Tancook (pop 769)
• Upper Lahave wd (pop 2,775)
• Vogler Cove wd (pop 2,681)
• Waterloo (pop 769)
• Western Shore wd (pop 936)

1921 census

• Baker Settlement (pop 538)
• Barss Corner wd (pop 925)
• Blandford (pop 579)
• Blockhouse (pop 483)
• Blue Rocks wd (pop 848)
• Bridgewater, T-V wd (pop 3,147)
• Chester Basin wd (pop 547)
• Chester E. (pop 870)
• Chester W.-O. (pop 873)
• Conquerall Bank wd (pop 531)
• Dayspring wd (pop 573)
• Dublin W.-O. (Dublin Shore pt.) (pop 415)
• Feltzen S. wd (pop 510)
• First South (pop 646)
• Garden Lots (pop 311)
• Hebbs Mills (pop 418)
• Hemford (pop 1,126)
• Indian Point (pop 535)
• Indian reserves (pop 78)
• Italy Cross (pop 763)
• LaHave Island (pop 432)
• Lunenburg, T-V wd (pop 2,792)
• Maders Cove (pop 225)
• Mahone Bay wd (pop 1,177)
• Mahone Bay Road (pop 582)
• Midville Branch (pop 523)
• Mill Cove (pop 707)
• New Cornwall (pop 709)
• New Dublin (Dublin Shore pt.) (pop 632)
• New Germany E. (Chesley Corner pt.) (pop 814)
• New Germany W.-O. (Chesley Corner pt.) (pop 267)
• New Ross E. (pop 859)
• New Ross W.-O. (pop 502)
• Northfield (pop 966)
• Oakland (pop 529)
• Parks Creek (pop 400)
• Petite Rivière (pop 944)
• Pleasantville wd (pop 752)
• Riversport (pop 645)
• Rose Bay (Cross Roads) (pop 696)
• Tancook (pop 650)
• Upper Lahave wd (pop 719)
• Vogler Cove wd (pop 553)
• Waterloo (pop 863)
• Western Shore wd (pop 1,088)

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_Lunenburg
• Wikidata: Q142312
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunenburg_County,_Nova_Scotia
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Lunenburg_(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.