Cape Breton N. & Victoria, Nova Scotia

Cape Breton N. & Victoria was a Census Division in Nova Scotia as recorded in the 1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. NS composite CD covering northern Cape Breton + Victoria County; no single Wikidata entity.

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

1911 census

• Baddeck (pop 581)
• Baddeck Centre (pop 479)
• Bay St. Lawrence wd (pop 421)
• Big Baddeck (pop 429)
• Big Bras d'Or (pop 313)
• Boisdale (pop 685)
• Boularderie (pop 1,463)
• Cape North wd (pop 946)
• East Bay North (pop 449)
• Englishtown (pop 372)
• Frenchvale (pop 444)
• George River wd (pop 993)
• Grand Narrows wd (pop 1,298)
• Ingonish (pop 966)
• Iona (Jamesville) (pop 760)
• Little Bras d'Or (pop 2,175)
• Little Narrows N. (pop 239)
• Little Narrows S. (pop 432)
• Middle River wd
• Neil Harbour wd (pop 395)
• New Campbellton (pop 242)
• NO DATA
• North River
• North Shore (pop 556)
• North Sydney, T-V wd (pop 5,418)
• South Gut (pop 619)
• Sydney Mines, T-V wd (pop 7,470)
• Washabuck (pop 419)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

• Re-formed from Victoria (1871–1901) in 1911.
• Split into Victoria (1921) in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NS_Cape_Breton_N._&_Victoria

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.