Inverness, Nova Scotia

Inverness was an 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 Q2630310.

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

• Broad Cove District (pop 986)
• Broad Cove Intervale (pop 1,442)
• Cheticamp wd (pop 1,915)
• Judique wd (pop 1,919)
• Lake Ainslie E. (pop 816)
• Lake Ainslie W-O (pop 397)
• Mabou wd (pop 3,112)
• Margaree (pop 1,442)
• North Mountain (pop 856)
• North-East Margaree wd (pop 1,476)
• Plaster Cove wd (pop 2,213)
• Port Hood (pop 1,297)
• River Dennis (pop 1,022)
• River Inhabitants (pop 1,095)
• Whycocomagh wd (pop 2,398)
• Young Bridge or Forks (pop 1,029)

1881 census

• Broad Cove Marsh (pop 1,075)
• Cheticamp wd (pop 2,726)
• Dennis River (pop 1,097)
• Glencoe (pop 1,216)
• Hastings wd (pop 2,357)
• Judique wd (pop 2,027)
• Lake Ainslie E. (pop 742)
• Lake Ainslie W-O (pop 430)
• Mabou wd (pop 2,088)
• Margaree Harbour wd (pop 1,757)
• NO DATA
• North Mountain (pop 833)
• North-East Margaree wd (pop 1,451)
• Port Hood (pop 1,498)
• River Inhabitants (pop 1,077)
• Strath Lorne (pop 1,588)
• Whycocomagh wd (pop 2,443)
• Young's Bridge (pop 1,246)

1891 census

• Broad Cove Marsh (pop 1,085)
• Cheticamp wd (pop 3,142)
• Glencoe (pop 1,055)
• Hawkesbury, Town—Ville wd (pop 658)
• Hillsboro (pop 997)
• Judique wd (pop 1,914)
• Lake Ainslie E. (pop 772)
• Lake Ainslie W-O (pop 417)
• Margarie (pop 1,743)
• Margarie N-E wd (pop 1,461)
• Margarie S-O (pop 1,067)
• North Mountain (pop 808)
• Pleasant Bay wd (pop 235)
• Poplar Grove (pop 1,061)
• Port Hastings (pop 1,681)
• Port Hood (pop 1,646)
• River Dennis (pop 1,089)
• River Inhabitants (pop 1,145)
• Strath Lorne (pop 1,514)
• Whycocomagh wd (pop 1,509)
• Whycocomagh S wd (pop 780)

1901 census

• Broad Cove Marsh (pop 988)
• Cheticamp (pop 2,480)
• Craignish wd (pop 607)
• Denys River (pop 976)
• Glencoe (pop 1,118)
• Hillsboro (pop 859)
• Inhabitants River (part) (pop 970)
• Judique wd (pop 808)
• Lake Ainslie E. (pop 621)
• Lake Ainslie W-O (pop 391)
• Long Point (pop 783)
• Margaree Harbour, East side—Côté est (pop 768)
• Margaree Harbour, West side—Côté ouest (pop 604)
• Margaree, Northeast—Nord-est wd (pop 1,260)
• Margaree, Southwest—Sud-ouest (pop 1,029)
• Pleasant Bay wd (pop 304)
• Poplar Grove (pop 968)
• Port Hastings (pop 834)
• Port Hawkesbury, T-V wd (pop 633)
• Port Hood (pop 1,891)
• St. Joseph (pop 1,092)
• Strath Lorne (pop 1,681)
• West Bay wd (pop 713)
• Whycocomagh, North side—Côté nord wd (pop 1,295)
• Whycocomagh, South side—Côté sud wd (pop 680)

1911 census

• Broad Cove Marsh (pop 959)
• Cheticamp
• Craignish wd (pop 525)
• Glencoe (pop 903)
• Hillsboro (pop 759)
• Inverness, T-V wd (pop 2,719)
• Judique wd (pop 1,350)
• Lake Ainslie E. (pop 517)
• Lake Ainslie W-O (pop 296)
• Margaree Harbour W.-O. (pop 504)
• Margaree N. E. (pop 1,068)
• Margaree S. W.-O. (pop 868)
• NO DATA
• Orangedale wd (pop 676)
• Pleasant Bay wd (pop 284)
• Poplar Grove (pop 770)
• Port Hastings (pop 761)
• Port Hawkesbury, T-V wd (pop 684)
• Port Hood (pop 1,399)
• Port Hood t-v (pop 1,078)
• Port Hood, T-V (pop 1,078)
• River Denys wd (pop 825)
• River Inhabitants (pop 945)
• St. Joseph (pop 1,081)
• Strath Lorne
• West Bay wd (pop 1,145)
• Whycocomagh N. (pop 602)
• Whycocomagh S. (pop 556)

1921 census

• Broad Cove Marsh (pop 871)
• Cheticamp (pop 2,580)
• Craignish wd (pop 455)
• Glencoe (pop 757)
• Hillsboro (pop 770)
• Indian reserves (pop 179)
• Inverness, T-V wd (pop 2,963)
• Judique wd (pop 1,210)
• Lake Ainslie E. (pop 472)
• Lake Ainslie W-O (pop 254)
• Margaree Harbour E. (pop 698)
• Margaree Harbour W.-O. (pop 526)
• Margaree N. E. (pop 1,043)
• Margaree S. W.-O. (pop 859)
• NO DATA
• Pleasant Bay wd (pop 270)
• Poplar Grove (pop 653)
• Port Hastings (pop 645)
• Port Hawkesbury, T-V wd (pop 869)
• Port Hood (pop 1,299)
• Port Hood, T-V (pop 805)
• River Denys wd (pop 700)
• River Inhabitants (pop 807)
• St. Joseph (pop 1,065)
• Strath Lorne (pop 1,020)
• West Bay wd (pop 637)
• Whycocomagh N. (pop 822)
• Whycocomagh S. (pop 579)

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_Inverness
• Wikidata: Q2630310
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverness_County,_Nova_Scotia
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_d%27Inverness_(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.