Guysborough, Nova Scotia
Guysborough 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 Q501045.
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 | 16,555 | 15 |
| 1881 | 17,808 | 19 |
| 1891 | 17,195 | 20 |
| 1901 | 18,320 | 22 |
| 1911 | 16,027 | 29 |
| 1921 | 15,518 | 34 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1871 census
- Caledonia wd (pop 237)
- Cape Canso wd (pop 1,136)
- Crow Harbour (pop 796)
- Forks of St. Mary (pop 1,356)
- Guysborough Intervale (pop 1,265)
- Guysborough Polling District (pop 1,887)
- Isaac’s Harbor (pop 928)
- Manchester (pop 1,644)
- Marie Joseph (pop 776)
- Melford (pop 1,765)
- Molasses Harbor (pop 1,310)
- Salmon River (pop 674)
- Sherbrooke wd (pop 1,623)
- Stormont (pop 369)
- Wine Harbor (pop 789)
1881 census
- Caledonia wd (pop 376)
- Cape Canso wd (pop 1,451)
- Country Harbour (pop 437)
- Crow Harbour (pop 775)
- Forks St. Mary’s (pop 944)
- Goshen & Giant's Lake (pop 467)
- Guysborough wd (pop 1,703)
- Guysborough Intervale (pop 990)
- Indian Harbour wd (pop 785)
- Isaac Harbour (pop 1,012)
- Larry River wd (pop 738)
- Manchester (pop 1,438)
- Marie Joseph (pop 919)
- Melford (pop 1,700)
- New Harbour wd (pop 326)
- Salmon River (pop 717)
- Sherbrooke wd (pop 1,607)
- Tracadie wd (pop 556)
- Whitehead wd (pop 867)
1891 census
- Caledonia wd (pop 214)
- Canso, T-V wd (pop 1,824)
- Country Harbour (pop 447)
- Crow Harbour (pop 788)
- Forks St. Mary’s (pop 863)
- Goshen wd (pop 421)
- Guysborough wd (pop 1,546)
- Guysborough Intervale (pop 842)
- Indian Harbour wd (pop 707)
- Isaac Harbour (pop 1,161)
- Larry River wd (pop 901)
- Liscomb (pop 405)
- Manchester (pop 1,310)
- Marie Joseph (pop 624)
- Melford (pop 1,497)
- New Harbour wd (pop 353)
- Salmon River (pop 703)
- Sherbrooke wd (pop 1,063)
- Tracadie wd (pop 440)
- Whitehead wd (pop 1,086)
1901 census
- Caledonia wd (pop 268)
- Canso, T-V wd (pop 2,367)
- Country Harbour (pop 705)
- Crow Harbour (pop 828)
- Forks (pop 726)
- Goshen wd (pop 390)
- Guysborough wd (pop 1,411)
- Indian Harbour wd (pop 838)
- Intervale (pop 827)
- Isaac Harbour (pop 1,486)
- Larry River wd (pop 910)
- Liscomb (pop 563)
- Manchester (pop 1,133)
- Marie Joseph (pop 547)
- Melford (pop 632)
- Mulgrave (pop 810)
- New Harbour wd (pop 380)
- Salmon River (pop 598)
- Sherbrooke wd (pop 1,021)
- Sonora (pop 322)
- Tracadie wd (pop 369)
- Whitehead wd (pop 1,189)
1911 census
- Beckerton (pop 342)
- Caledonia wd
- Canso, T-V wd (pop 1,617)
- Charlos Cove wd (pop 314)
- Country Harbour (pop 574)
- Crow Harbour (pop 811)
- Forks (pop 556)
- Goldborough (pop 874)
- Goshen wd (pop 337)
- Guysborough wd (pop 1,218)
- Hazel Hill wd (pop 903)
- Indian Harbour wd (pop 516)
- Intervale (pop 611)
- Isaac Harbour (pop 513)
- Lake Dale (pop 211)
- Larry River wd (pop 600)
- Liscomb (pop 567)
- Manchester (pop 895)
- Marie Joseph (pop 581)
- Melford (pop 533)
- Mulgrave (pop 945)
- New Harbour wd (pop 358)
- NO DATA
- Port Felix wd (pop 558)
- Salmon River
- Sherbrooke wd (pop 760)
- Sonora (pop 340)
- Tracadie wd
- Whitehead wd (pop 493)
1921 census
- Beckerton (pop 325)
- Caledonia wd (pop 187)
- Canso, T-V wd (pop 1,626)
- Charlos Cove wd (pop 327)
- Country Harbour (pop 547)
- Crow Harbour (pop 803)
- Glenelg (Forks) (pop 508)
- Goldborough (pop 275)
- Goshen wd (pop 292)
- Guysborough wd (pop 1,097)
- Hazel Hill wd (pop 870)
- Indian Harbour wd
- Intervale (pop 347)
- Isaac Harbour (pop 356)
- Lake Dale (pop 190)
- Larry River wd (pop 624)
- Liscomb (pop 469)
- Manchester Lower (pop 304)
- Manchester Upper (pop 552)
- Marie Joseph (pop 510)
- Melford (pop 520)
- Mulgrave (pop 1,012)
- New Harbour wd (pop 359)
- NO DATA
- Port Felix wd (pop 560)
- Port Halford (pop 229)
- Roman Valley (pop 208)
- Salmon River (pop 329)
- Seal Harbour (pop 333)
- Sherbrooke wd (pop 679)
- Sonora (pop 274)
- Tracadie wd (pop 321)
- Whitehead wd (pop 382)
- Wine Harbour (pop 103)
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_Guysborough - Wikidata: Q501045
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guysborough_County
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Guysborough
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.