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Census Division: Halifax City | Province: Nova Scotia | Years active: 1881–1921 | Wikidata: Q2630280

Halifax City, Nova Scotia

Halifax City was a Census Division in Nova Scotia as recorded in the 1881–1921 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 Q2630280.

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
1881	67,917	39
1891	38,495	7
1901	74,662	47
1911	78,490	48
1921	97,228	45

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1881 census

Black Point (pop 1,051)
Chezettcook (pop 1,550)
Dartmouth wd (pop 1,777)
Dartmouth, Town—Ville wd (pop 3,786)
Drysdale's Cove (pop 438)
Eastern Passage wd (pop 892)
Ferguson's Cove (pop 757)
French Village wd (pop 759)
Gay's River (pop 786)
Haggett's Cove (pop 1,176)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 1 (pop 7,998)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (pop 3,598)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 3 (pop 2,801)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 4 (pop 1,942)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 5, 1st Section (pop 4,221)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 5, 2nd Section (pop 9,324)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 6 (pop 6,170)
Hammond's Plains (pop 785)
Jeddore (pop 2,073)
Lawrencetown wd (pop 521)
Little River (pop 320)
Lower Prospect (pop 505)
Middle Musquodoboit (pop 1,090)
Musquodoboit Harbor (pop 1,384)
Nicumteouch (pop 655)
North West Arm (pop 460)
Pier's Mills (pop 535)
Pope's Harbor (pop 1,866)
Portuguese Cove (pop 611)
Preston (pop 794)
Sable Island wd (pop 46)
Salmon River (pop 798)
Sambro wd (pop 494)
Sheet Harbor (pop 1,197)
Truro Road (pop 903)
Upper Musquodoboit wd (pop 1,143)
Upper Prospect (pop 1,133)
Windsor Road (pop 965)
Wyse's Corner (pop 613)

1891 census

Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 1 (pop 8,550)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (pop 3,672)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 3 (pop 2,332)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 4 (pop 1,715)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 5 (pop 14,347)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 6 (pop 7,821)
Sable Island wd (pop 58)

1901 census

Bedford wd (pop 220)
Bedford Basin wd (pop 865)
Chezzetcook, East—Est (pop 1,006)
Chezzetcook, West—Ouest (pop 1,116)
Cole Harbour wd (pop 1,377)
Dartmouth, Town—Ville wd (pop 4,806)
East Dover wd (pop 473)
Eastern Passage wd (pop 1,020)
Fall River wd (pop 1,004)
Ferguson Cove (pop 204)
French Village wd (pop 827)
Gays River (pop 728)
Hackett Cove (pop 883)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 1 (pop 6,069)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (pop 7,440)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 3 (pop 3,561)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 4 (pop 5,925)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 5 (pop 9,706)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 6 (pop 8,131)
Hammond Plains (pop 691)
Herring Cove wd (pop 438)
Hubbard Cove wd (pop 495)
Ingram River (pop 635)
Jeddore (pop 1,123)
Lawrencetown wd (pop 359)
Little River (pop 221)
Meagher Grant (pop 466)
Middle Musquodoboit (pop 945)
Musquodoboit Harbour wd (pop 908)
Northwest Arm (pop 481)
Port Dufferin (pop 1,120)
Porter Lake (pop 210)
Portuguese Cove (pop 485)
Preston (pop 498)
Preston Road (pop 493)
Prospect Road (pop 443)
Sambro wd (pop 503)
Seaforth (pop 270)
Sheet Harbour wd (pop 1,583)
Ship Harbour wd (pop 856)
Shoal Bay (pop 1,092)
Smith Cove (pop 928)
Spry Bay wd (pop 893)
Terence Bay wd (pop 469)
Thirteen-mile House (pop 1,022)
Upper Musquodoboit wd (pop 1,219)
Upper Prospect (pop 455)

1911 census

1921 census

Bedford Basin wd (pop 1,487)
Caribou Mines (pop 211)
Chezzetcook E. (pop 848)
Chezzetcook W.-O. (pop 830)
Cole Harbour (Imperial) wd (pop 2,966)
Dartmouth, T-V wd (pop 7,899)
East Dover wd (pop 545)
Eastern Passage wd (pop 1,050)
Fall River (Waverly Corner) wd (pop 808)
Ferguson Cove (pop 278)
French Village wd (pop 761)
Gays River (pop 642)
Hackett Cove (Haggens Cove) (pop 767)
Halifax, C wd (pop 58,372)
Hammond Plains (pop 682)
Herring Cove wd (pop 295)
Hubbard Cove (North Shore) wd (pop 542)
Indian reserves (pop 175)
Ingram River (pop 810)
Jeddore (pop 963)
Lawrencetown wd (pop 283)
Little River (pop 270)
Meagher Grant (pop 457)
Middle Musquodoboit (pop 793)
Musquodoboit Harbour wd (pop 987)
Musquodoboit Upper (pop 987)
NO DATA
Northwest Arm (pop 2,102)
Port Dufferin (pop 660)
Porter Lake (pop 177)
Portuguese Cove (pop 318)
Preston (pop 572)
Preston Road (pop 1,071)
Sackville (13 Mile House) wd (pop 1,362)
Sambro wd (pop 432)
Seaforth (pop 193)
Sheet Harbour wd (pop 974)
Ship Harbour wd (pop 799)
Shoal Bay (pop 844)
Smith Cove (pop 836)
Sober Island (pop 247)
Spry Bay wd (pop 575)
Spryfield (Prospect Road) wd (pop 368)
Terence Bay wd (pop 648)
Upper Prospect (pop 342)

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 Halifax East, Halifax West in 1881.
Split off from Halifax West in 1881.

Identifiers

HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NS_Halifax_City
Wikidata: Q2630280
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_County,_Nova_Scotia
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Halifax_(Nouvelle-%C3%89cosse)

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.