Halifax West, Nova Scotia

Halifax West was a Census Division in Nova Scotia as recorded in the 1871 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 (West half of Halifax County); no 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

1871 census

• Black Point (pop 925)
• Drysdale (pop 407)
• Ferguson's Cove (pop 667)
• French Village wd (pop 668)
• Haggett's Cove (pop 1,009)
• Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 1 (pop 6,631)
• Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (pop 3,320)
• Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 3 (pop 3,277)
• Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 4 (pop 2,331)
• Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 5, 1st Section (pop 4,788)
• Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 5, 2nd Section (pop 5,258)
• Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 6 (pop 3,974)
• Hammond's Plains (pop 740)
• NO DATA
• North West Arm (pop 439)
• Pier’s Mills (pop 365)
• Portuguese Cove (pop 515)
• Prospect (pop 856)
• Sable Island wd (pop 27)
• Sambro wd (pop 440)
• Terrence Bay (pop 368)

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.
• Merged into Halifax City in 1881.
• Split into Halifax City in 1881.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NS_Halifax_West

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.