Cape Breton South, Nova Scotia
Cape Breton South 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 1921 federal electoral subdivision (South half of Cape Breton); 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.
| Year | Population | CSDs |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 69,809 | 21 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1911 census
- Ball Creek wd (pop 1,022)
- Bateston (pop 259)
- Big Pond wd (pop 371)
- Dominion No. 6 (pop 1,244)
- Dominion t-v (pop 16,562)
- Dominion, T-V (pop 2,589)
- East Bay S. (pop 418)
- Enon (pop 214)
- Gabarus wd (pop 979)
- Glace Bay t-v wd (pop 1,006)
- Glace Bay, T-V wd (pop 16,562)
- Grand Mira (pop 636)
- Hillside (pop 726)
- Lingan (pop 3,136)
- Louisburg t-v wd (pop 1,006)
- Louisburg, T-V wd (pop 1,006)
- Main-à-Dieu (pop 521)
- Reserve (pop 2,275)
- South Forks (pop 983)
- South Forks (pop 17,723)
- Trout Brook (pop 571)
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 Cape Breton in 1911.
- Merged into Cape Breton in 1921.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_NS_Cape_Breton_South
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.