Digby, Nova Scotia
Digby was a 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 Q2630244.
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 | 17,037 | 14 |
| 1881 | 19,881 | 16 |
| 1891 | 19,897 | 22 |
| 1901 | 20,322 | 24 |
| 1911 | 17,621 | 25 |
| 1921 | 19,612 | 29 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1871 census
- Bellevaux (pop 1,036)
- Brier Island wd (pop 643)
- Clare (pop 1,877)
- Digby wd (pop 1,951)
- Head of St. Mary’s (pop 1,100)
- Hillsburg (pop 1,570)
- Long Island wd (pop 701)
- Metighan wd (pop 1,883)
- New Tusket (pop 419)
- Petit Passage (pop 390)
- Salmon River wd (pop 1,183)
- Sandy Cove wd (pop 1,135)
- St. Mary’s Bay (pop 1,709)
- Weymouth (pop 1,440)
1881 census
- Church Point (pop 2,289)
- Digby wd (pop 1,879)
- Freeport wd (pop 811)
- Hillsburg (pop 1,360)
- Marshall, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,077)
- Metighan wd (pop 2,452)
- New Tusket (pop 537)
- Plympton wd (pop 1,850)
- Rossway (pop 514)
- Salmon River wd (pop 1,368)
- Sandy Cove wd (pop 1,090)
- Smith Cove (pop 507)
- St. Bernard wd (pop 1,125)
- Tiverton wd (pop 505)
- Westport wd (pop 733)
- Weymouth (pop 1,784)
1891 census
- Cheticamp (pop 460)
- Church Point (pop 874)
- Comeauville wd (pop 932)
- Culloden wd (pop 655)
- Digby wd (pop 1,381)
- Freeport wd (pop 751)
- Grosses Coques (pop 660)
- Hillsburg (pop 1,294)
- Little River (pop 373)
- Marshall, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,036)
- Meteghan (pop 1,052)
- Meteghan River wd (pop 1,011)
- New Tusket (pop 563)
- Plympton wd (pop 1,522)
- Rossway (pop 431)
- Salmon River wd (pop 1,333)
- Sandy Cove wd (pop 687)
- Smith Cove (pop 406)
- St. Bernard wd (pop 1,240)
- Tiverton wd (pop 513)
- Westport wd (pop 755)
- Weymouth (pop 1,968)
1901 census
- Barton wd (pop 639)
- Cheticamp (pop 448)
- Church Point (pop 988)
- Comeauville wd (pop 980)
- Culloden wd (pop 682)
- Digby wd (pop 1,150)
- Freeport wd (pop 830)
- Grosses Coques (pop 647)
- Hillsburg (pop 1,162)
- Little River (pop 448)
- Marshall, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,199)
- Meteghan (pop 1,214)
- Meteghan River wd (pop 1,082)
- New Tusket (pop 612)
- Plympton wd (pop 819)
- Rossway (pop 391)
- Salmon River wd (pop 1,318)
- Sandy Cove wd (pop 754)
- Smith Cove (pop 378)
- St. Bernard wd (pop 1,296)
- Tiverton wd (pop 542)
- Westport wd (pop 724)
- Weymouth (pop 685)
- Weymouth Bridge (pop 1,334)
1911 census
- Barton wd (pop 600)
- Cheticamp
- Church Point (pop 1,054)
- Comeauville wd (pop 1,095)
- Culloden wd (pop 635)
- Digby wd (pop 1,247)
- Freeport wd (pop 806)
- Grosses Coques (pop 601)
- Hillsburg (pop 1,080)
- Little River
- Marshalls (pop 1,021)
- Meteghan (pop 1,327)
- Meteghan River wd (pop 1,133)
- New Tusket (pop 621)
- NO DATA
- Plympton wd (pop 710)
- Rossway (pop 343)
- Salmon River wd
- Sandy Cove wd (pop 711)
- Smith Cove
- St. Bernard wd (pop 1,253)
- Tiverton wd (pop 606)
- Westport wd (pop 652)
- Weymouth (pop 682)
- Weymouth Bridge (pop 1,444)
1921 census
- Barton wd (pop 587)
- Cheticamp (pop 529)
- Church Point (pop 453)
- Comeauville wd (pop 609)
- Concession & Lower Concession (pop 629)
- Culloden wd (pop 675)
- Digby wd (pop 1,230)
- Freeport wd (pop 708)
- Grosses Coques (pop 455)
- Hillsburg (pop 878)
- Indian Reserves (pop 90)
- Little River (pop 448)
- Marshalls (pop 936)
- Meteghan (pop 489)
- Meteghan N. (pop 579)
- Meteghan River wd (pop 579)
- New Tusket & Havelock (pop 540)
- NO DATA
- Plympton wd (pop 725)
- Rossway (pop 376)
- Salmon River wd (pop 1,237)
- Sandy Cove & Centreville wd (pop 683)
- Saulnierville wd (pop 1,333)
- Smith Cove (pop 418)
- St. Bernard wd (pop 1,368)
- Tiverton wd (pop 522)
- Westport wd (pop 561)
- Weymouth (pop 632)
- Weymouth Bridge (pop 1,343)
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_Digby - Wikidata: Q2630244
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_County
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Digby
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.