Kings, Nova Scotia

Kings 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 Q671105.

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

• Aylesford N (pop 1,530)
• Aylesford S (pop 1,571)
• Berwick wd (pop 1,115)
• Canard wd (pop 1,446)
• Canning (pop 2,898)
• Centreville wd (pop 2,334)
• Dalhousie (pop 208)
• Gaspereau (pop 1,200)
• Harbourville wd (pop 1,557)
• Kentville, T-V wd (pop 1,779)
• Lakeville (pop 1,717)
• Lower Horton (pop 1,519)
• Somerset wd (pop 939)
• Wolfville wd (pop 1,697)

1881 census

• Aylesford N (pop 1,594)
• Aylesford S (pop 1,941)
• Berwick wd (pop 1,698)
• Canard wd (pop 1,429)
• Canning (pop 3,260)
• Centreville wd (pop 2,391)
• Dalhousie (pop 298)
• Gaspereau (pop 1,217)
• Harbourville wd (pop 1,445)
• Kentville, T-V wd (pop 2,125)
• Lakeville (pop 1,644)
• Lower Horton (pop 1,580)
• Somerset wd (pop 967)
• Wolfville wd (pop 1,880)

1891 census

• Aylesford N (pop 1,637)
• Aylesford S (pop 1,889)
• Berwick wd (pop 1,738)
• Canard wd (pop 1,296)
• Canning (pop 2,989)
• Centreville wd (pop 2,192)
• Dalhousie (pop 285)
• Gaspereau (pop 996)
• Harbourville wd (pop 1,252)
• Kentville & Canaan (pop 2,526)
• Lakeville (pop 1,340)
• Lower Horton (pop 1,455)
• Somerset wd (pop 931)
• Wolfville wd (pop 1,963)

1901 census

• Avonport wd (pop 507)
• Berwick wd (pop 1,006)
• Brooklyn Street (pop 671)
• Cambridge (pop 844)
• Canaan (pop 1,119)
• Canada Creek (pop 467)
• Canard wd (pop 502)
• Canning (pop 639)
• Centreville wd (pop 1,038)
• Dalhousie (pop 282)
• Dempsey Corner (pop 791)
• Grand Pré (pop 874)
• Greenwood wd (pop 502)
• Harbourville wd (pop 345)
• Kentville, T-V wd (pop 1,731)
• Kingsport wd (pop 708)
• Kingston (pop 654)
• Lockhartville (pop 692)
• Millville (pop 739)
• North Kingston (pop 726)
• Port Williams wd (pop 831)
• Scotsman Bay wd (pop 544)
• Sheffield Mills wd (pop 768)
• Somerset wd (pop 904)
• Upper Dyke, Village (pop 1,055)
• Ward—Quartier No. 7 (pop 1,085)
• Wolfville, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,412)
• Woodville (pop 501)

1911 census

• Aylesford (pop 2,034)
• Cambridge (pop 799)
• Canard wd (pop 468)
• Canning (pop 1,413)
• Cornwallis (pop 3,216)
• Dalhousie
• Harbourville wd (pop 421)
• Horton (pop 4,166)
• Kentville, T-V wd (pop 2,304)
• Kingston (pop 595)
• Medford wd (pop 584)
• North Kingston (pop 726)
• Port Williams wd (pop 850)
• Scotsman Bay wd (pop 466)
• Sheffield Mills wd (pop 1,054)
• Somerset wd (pop 909)
• Wolfville, T-V wd (pop 1,458)

1921 census

• Aylesford (pop 2,262)
• Cambridge (pop 905)
• Canard wd (pop 422)
• Canning (pop 1,245)
• Cornwallis (pop 4,861)
• Dalhousie (pop 247)
• Harbourville wd (pop 391)
• Horton (pop 4,263)
• Indian reserves (pop 41)
• Kentville, T-V wd (pop 2,717)
• Kingston (pop 607)
• NO DATA
• North Kingston (pop 771)
• Port Williams wd (pop 934)
• Scotsman Bay wd (pop 447)
• Sheffield Mills wd (pop 848)
• Somerset wd (pop 1,019)
• Wolfville, T-V wd (pop 1,743)

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_Kings
• Wikidata: Q671105
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_County,_Nova_Scotia
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Kings_(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.