Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Antigonish 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 Q575491.

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

• Antigonish wd (pop 3,319)
• Arisaig (pop 1,583)
• Cape George wd (pop 1,254)
• Harbor Bouche (pop 1,953)
• Lochaber (pop 1,897)
• Morristown wd (pop 1,061)
• St. Andrew's (pop 2,297)
• Tracadie wd (pop 1,882)
• Upper South River (pop 1,266)

1881 census

• Antigonish wd (pop 3,514)
• Arisaig (pop 1,606)
• Cape George wd (pop 1,348)
• Harbour au Bouche (pop 2,133)
• Heatherton (pop 1,984)
• Lochaber (pop 832)
• Morristown wd (pop 1,089)
• St. Andrew's (pop 1,279)
• St. Joseph (pop 1,700)
• Tracadie wd (pop 1,174)
• Upper South River (pop 1,401)

1891 census

• Antigonish, T-V wd (pop 2,758)
• Antigonish, Village wd (pop 693)
• Arisaig (pop 745)
• Ballantyne’s Cove (pop 1,063)
• Fraser’s Mills (pop 737)
• Harbour au Bouche (pop 1,066)
• Heatherton (pop 912)
• Linwood wd (pop 1,094)
• Lochaber (pop 834)
• Mahoney’s Beach (pop 856)
• Malignant Brook (pop 606)
• Merland (pop 1,065)
• Pomquet River wd (pop 1,077)
• Salt Springs wd (pop 598)
• St. Joseph (pop 1,446)
• Upper South River (pop 564)

1901 census

• Antigonish, South—Sud (pop 590)
• Antigonish, T-V wd (pop 1,838)
• Arisaig (pop 551)
• Cape George wd (pop 946)
• Harbour au Bouche (pop 795)
• Heatherton (pop 846)
• Linwood wd (pop 781)
• Lochaber (pop 596)
• Maryvale (pop 503)
• Morristown wd (pop 767)
• North Grant (pop 403)
• Pomquet wd (pop 910)
• South-River (pop 544)
• St. Andrews (pop 988)
• St. Joseph (pop 1,285)
• Tracadie (pop 800)
• Upper South River (pop 474)

1911 census

• Antigonish S. (pop 552)
• Antigonish, T-V wd (pop 1,787)
• Arisaig (pop 469)
• Cape George wd (pop 801)
• Dunmore (pop 411)
• Harbour au Bouche (pop 675)
• Heatherton (pop 785)
• Linwood wd (pop 741)
• Lochaber (pop 579)
• Maryvale (pop 388)
• Morristown wd (pop 639)
• North Grant (pop 337)
• Pomquet wd (pop 854)
• St. Andrews (pop 784)
• St. Joseph
• Tracadie
• Upper South River (pop 383)

1921 census

• Antigonish (Rural) (pop 818)
• Antigonish, T-V wd (pop 1,746)
• Arisaig (pop 350)
• Cape George wd (pop 698)
• Harbour au Bouche (pop 671)
• Heatherton (pop 639)
• Linwood wd (pop 747)
• Lochaber (pop 448)
• Maryvale (pop 349)
• Morristown wd (pop 545)
• North Grant (pop 325)
• Pomquet wd (pop 829)
• Réserves Indiennes (pop 214)
• South River, Middle (Dunmore) (pop 369)
• South River, Upper (pop 344)
• St. Andrews (pop 797)
• St. Joseph E. wd (pop 428)
• St. Joseph W.-O. wd (pop 447)
• Tracadie (pop 816)

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_Antigonish
• Wikidata: Q575491
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigonish_County,_Nova_Scotia
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_d%27Antigonish

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.