Queens (1871–1891), Nova Scotia

Queens (1871–1891) was a Census Division in Nova Scotia as recorded in the 1871–1891 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 Q2006307.

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

• Bristol (pop 2,169)
• Brookfield wd (pop 660)
• Caledonia wd (pop 1,269)
• Greenfield (pop 387)
• Liverpool, T-V wd (pop 3,104)
• Port Medway wd (pop 2,136)
• Port Mouton wd (pop 829)

1881 census

• Brookfield wd (pop 527)
• Brooklyn wd (pop 633)
• Caledonia wd (pop 904)
• Eagle Head wd (pop 665)
• Greenfield (pop 485)
• Hunt Point wd (pop 470)
• Kempt wd (pop 490)
• Local District No. 1 (pop 1,387)
• Local District No. 2 (pop 1,293)
• Mill, VL wd (pop 996)
• Milton wd (pop 1,143)
• Port Medway wd (pop 742)
• Port Mouton wd (pop 842)

1891 census

• Brookfield wd (pop 915)
• Brooklyn wd (pop 614)
• Caledonia wd (pop 1,037)
• Eagle Head wd (pop 670)
• Greenfield (pop 551)
• Hunt Point wd (pop 428)
• Kempt wd (pop 472)
• Liverpool, T-V wd (pop 2,465)
• Mill, VL wd (pop 773)
• Milton wd (pop 984)
• Port Medway wd (pop 943)
• Port Mouton wd (pop 758)

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 Shelburne & Queens in 1901.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NS_Queens
• Wikidata: Q2006307
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_County,_Nova_Scotia
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Queens_(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.