Hants, Nova Scotia
Hants 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 Q2630239.
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 | 21,301 | 14 |
| 1881 | 23,359 | 16 |
| 1891 | 22,052 | 22 |
| 1901 | 20,056 | 19 |
| 1911 | 16,801 | 20 |
| 1921 | 19,739 | 20 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1871 census
- Brooklyn wd (pop 1,106)
- Falmouth wd (pop 1,598)
- Forks (pop 720)
- Kempt (pop 1,633)
- Maitland wd (pop 2,463)
- Nine Mile River wd (pop 1,620)
- Noel (pop 1,978)
- Rawdon N (pop 776)
- Rawdon S (pop 719)
- Scotch, Village (pop 2,435)
- Shubenacadie wd (pop 1,093)
- St. Croix wd (pop 1,615)
- Walton (pop 830)
- Windsor, T-V wd (pop 2,715)
1881 census
- Brooklyn wd (pop 1,106)
- Falmouth wd (pop 903)
- Gore (pop 1,448)
- Hantsport wd (pop 862)
- Kempt (pop 1,925)
- Maitland wd (pop 2,766)
- Nine Mile River wd (pop 1,196)
- Noel (pop 1,218)
- Rawdon N (pop 800)
- Rawdon S (pop 799)
- Scotch, Village (pop 2,611)
- Shubenacadie wd (pop 1,396)
- St. Croix wd (pop 1,555)
- Walton (pop 911)
- Windsor Forks (pop 844)
- Windsor, T-V wd (pop 3,019)
1891 census
- Avondale wd (pop 860)
- Brooklyn wd (pop 1,040)
- Burlington wd (pop 661)
- Curry's Corner (pop 892)
- Falmouth wd (pop 829)
- Five Mile River (pop 380)
- Forks (pop 821)
- Gore (pop 1,217)
- Hantsport wd (pop 916)
- Kempt (pop 1,753)
- Maitland wd (pop 708)
- Nine Mile River wd (pop 1,130)
- Noel (pop 1,200)
- Rawdon & Uniacke (pop 857)
- Rawdon Church (pop 855)
- Scotch Village (pop 821)
- Selmah (pop 563)
- Shubenacadie wd (pop 1,349)
- South Maitland (pop 553)
- St. Croix wd (pop 1,483)
- Walton (pop 687)
- Windsor (Court House) wd (pop 2,477)
1901 census
- Avondale wd (pop 613)
- Burlington wd (pop 570)
- Falmouth wd (pop 925)
- Falmouth Forks (pop 275)
- Gore (pop 983)
- Hantsport wd (pop 713)
- Kempt (pop 1,564)
- Maitland wd (pop 1,763)
- Nine Mile River wd (pop 1,140)
- Noel (pop 1,237)
- Rawdon (pop 569)
- Rawdon & Uniacke (pop 645)
- Scotch Village (pop 705)
- Shubenacadie wd (pop 1,463)
- South Newport (pop 1,001)
- St. Croix wd (pop 1,570)
- Walton (pop 400)
- Windsor Forks (pop 522)
- Windsor, T-V wd (pop 3,398)
1911 census
- Avondale wd (pop 689)
- Burlington wd (pop 546)
- Falmouth wd (pop 914)
- Falmouth Forks (pop 274)
- Gore (pop 1,161)
- Hantsport wd (pop 686)
- Kempt
- Maitland wd
- Nine Mile River wd (pop 1,067)
- NO DATA
- Noel (pop 1,311)
- Rawdon (pop 576)
- Rawdon & Uniacke (pop 516)
- Scotch Village (pop 673)
- Shubenacadie wd (pop 1,516)
- South Newport (pop 946)
- St. Croix wd (pop 1,512)
- Walton (pop 438)
- Windsor Forks (pop 524)
- Windsor, T-V wd (pop 3,452)
1921 census
- Avondale (Newport Sounding) wd (pop 548)
- Burlington wd (pop 506)
- Falmouth wd (pop 975)
- Gore (pop 1,241)
- Hantsport wd (pop 683)
- Indian reserves (pop 93)
- Kempt (pop 1,426)
- Maitland wd (pop 1,326)
- Nine Mile River wd (pop 1,048)
- NO DATA
- Noel (pop 1,272)
- Rawdon (pop 500)
- Rawdon & Uniacke (pop 508)
- Scotch Village (pop 663)
- Shubenacadie wd (pop 1,667)
- South Newport (Brooklyn) (pop 835)
- St. Croix wd (pop 1,733)
- Walton (pop 442)
- Windsor Forks (pop 682)
- Windsor, T-V wd (pop 3,591)
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_Hants - Wikidata: Q2630239
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hants_County,_Nova_Scotia
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Hants
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.