Annapolis, Nova Scotia
Annapolis 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 Q564523.
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.
| Year | Population | CSDs |
|---|---|---|
| 1871 | 18,121 | 15 |
| 1881 | 20,598 | 15 |
| 1891 | 19,350 | 28 |
| 1901 | 18,842 | 28 |
| 1911 | 17,936 | 30 |
| 1921 | 18,153 | 32 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1871 census
- Annapolis Royal wd (pop 2,127)
- Belleisle wd (pop 1,006)
- Bridgetown wd (pop 1,334)
- Broad Cove (pop 891)
- Carleton Corner wd (pop 700)
- Clarence (pop 1,659)
- Clementsport (pop 1,302)
- Dalhousie (pop 606)
- Hessian Line (pop 1,272)
- Maitland (pop 567)
- Middleton Corners wd (pop 1,542)
- Morse's Road (pop 381)
- New Caledonia (pop 1,455)
- Nictaux wd (pop 1,386)
- Willmot (pop 1,893)
1881 census
- Annapolis Royal wd (pop 2,833)
- Belleisle wd (pop 1,090)
- Bridgetown wd (pop 1,448)
- Broad Cove (pop 991)
- Carleton Corner wd (pop 862)
- Clarence (pop 1,739)
- Clementsport (pop 1,330)
- Dalhousie (pop 806)
- Hessian Line (pop 1,524)
- Maitland (pop 610)
- Middleton Corners wd (pop 1,625)
- Morse's Road (pop 457)
- New Caledonia (pop 1,492)
- Nictaux wd (pop 1,516)
- Willmot (pop 2,275)
1891 census
- Annapolis Royal wd (pop 959)
- Bear River (pop 694)
- Belleisle wd (pop 1,005)
- Bridgetown wd (pop 1,117)
- Carleton Corner wd (pop 846)
- Clarence (pop 903)
- Clements W-O (pop 467)
- Clementsport (pop 687)
- Clementsvale (pop 704)
- Dalhousie (pop 402)
- Granville Ferry (pop 905)
- Granville, Lower (pop 923)
- Hampton (pop 374)
- Lawrencetown Lane (pop 683)
- Lequille (pop 922)
- Maitland (pop 422)
- Margaretsville (pop 703)
- Meadowvale (pop 687)
- Melvern (pop 523)
- Middleton wd (pop 740)
- Milford (pop 416)
- New Albany (pop 279)
- Nictau wd (pop 778)
- Parker Cove (pop 569)
- Port George (pop 684)
- Port Lorne (pop 673)
- Round Hill (Moschelle) (pop 696)
- Springfield (pop 589)
1901 census
- Annapolis Royal wd (pop 1,019)
- Bear River (pop 662)
- Belleisle wd (pop 968)
- Bridgetown wd (pop 858)
- Carleton Corner wd (pop 897)
- Clarence (pop 1,435)
- Clements W.-O. (pop 465)
- Clementsport (pop 642)
- Clementsvale (pop 690)
- Dalhousie (pop 328)
- Granville Ferry (pop 869)
- Granville, Lower (pop 842)
- Hampton (pop 307)
- Lawrencetown Lane (pop 613)
- Lequille (pop 871)
- Maitland (pop 374)
- Margaretsville (pop 476)
- Meadowvale (pop 776)
- Melvern (pop 578)
- Middleton wd (pop 969)
- Milford (pop 354)
- New Albany (pop 292)
- Nictau wd (pop 742)
- Parker Cove (pop 531)
- Port George (pop 548)
- Port Lorne (pop 565)
- Round Hill (pop 610)
- Springfield (pop 561)
1911 census
- Annapolis Royal wd (pop 1,019)
- Bear River (pop 589)
- Belleisle wd (pop 849)
- Bridgetown wd (pop 996)
- Carleton Corner wd (pop 789)
- Clarence (pop 1,464)
- Clements W.-O. (pop 467)
- Clementsport (pop 585)
- Clementsvale (pop 627)
- Dalhousie
- Granville Ferry (pop 730)
- Granville, Lower (pop 862)
- Hampton (pop 351)
- Lawrencetown Lane (pop 615)
- Lequille (pop 825)
- Maitland
- Margaretsville (pop 481)
- Meadowvale (pop 874)
- Melvern (pop 514)
- Middleton wd (pop 288)
- Middleton, T-V wd (pop 827)
- Milford (pop 342)
- New Albany (pop 215)
- Nictau wd (pop 705)
- NO DATA
- Parker Cove (pop 516)
- Port George (pop 472)
- Port Lorne (pop 474)
- Round Hill (pop 647)
- Springfield (pop 813)
1921 census
- Annapolis Royal wd (pop 836)
- Bear River (pop 615)
- Belleisle wd (pop 787)
- Bridgetown wd (pop 1,086)
- Brooklyn E. (Middleton) (pop 320)
- Carleton Corner wd (pop 713)
- Clarence (pop 501)
- Clements W.-O. (pop 477)
- Clementsport (pop 549)
- Clementsvale (pop 607)
- Granville Ferry (pop 658)
- Hampton (pop 368)
- Indian reserves (pop 88)
- Lawrencetown (pop 989)
- Lawrencetown Lane (pop 645)
- Lequille (pop 759)
- Maitland (pop 341)
- Margaretsville (pop 507)
- Melvern (pop 528)
- Middleton, T-V wd (pop 875)
- Milford (pop 293)
- Morse Road (Dalhousie) (pop 260)
- New Albany (pop 188)
- Nictau wd (pop 775)
- NO DATA
- Parker Cove (pop 565)
- Port George (pop 455)
- Port Lorne (pop 421)
- Round Hill (pop 583)
- Springfield (pop 849)
- Thornes Cove (Granville Lower) (pop 778)
- Torbrook (Meadowvale) (pop 737)
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_Annapolis - Wikidata: Q564523
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapolis_County
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_d%27Annapolis
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.