Queens (1871–1891), Nova Scotia
Queens (1871–1891) was a Census Division in Nova Scotia as recorded in the 1871–1891 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 Q2006307.
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 | 10,554 | 7 |
| 1881 | 10,577 | 13 |
| 1891 | 10,610 | 12 |
Constituent Census Subdivisions by year
1871 census
- Bristol (pop 2,169)
- Brookfield (pop 660)
- Caledonia wd (pop 1,269)
- Greenfield (pop 387)
- Liverpool, T-V wd (pop 3,104)
- Port Medway wd (pop 2,136)
- Port Mouton wd (pop 829)
1881 census
- Local District No. 1 (pop 1,387)
- Local District No. 10 (pop 485)
- Local District No. 11 (pop 527)
- Local District No. 12 (pop 904)
- Local District No. 13 (pop 490)
- Local District No. 2 (pop 1,293)
- Local District No. 3 (pop 470)
- Local District No. 4 (pop 842)
- Local District No. 5 (pop 1,143)
- Local District No. 6 (pop 633)
- Local District No. 7 (pop 665)
- Local District No. 8 (pop 742)
- Local District No. 9 (pop 996)
1891 census
- Brookfield (pop 915)
- Brooklyn wd (pop 614)
- Caledonia wd (pop 1,037)
- Eagle Head wd (pop 670)
- Greenfield (pop 551)
- Hunt’s Point (pop 428)
- Kempt wd (pop 472)
- Liverpool, T-V wd (pop 2,465)
- Mill, VL wd (pop 773)
- Milton wd (pop 984)
- Port Medway wd (pop 943)
- Port Mouton wd (pop 758)
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 Shelburne & Queens in 1901.
Identifiers
- HGIS Canada CD ID:
CD_NS_Queens - Wikidata: Q2006307
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_County,_Nova_Scotia
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Queens_(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.