Richmond, Nova Scotia

Richmond 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 Q2658971.

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

• Arichat (pop 1,058)
• Black River (pop 747)
• Descousse (pop 1,456)
• Framboise wd (pop 538)
• Grand River (pop 822)
• L'Ardoise (pop 1,672)
• Little Arichat (pop 1,661)
• Loch Lomond (pop 435)
• Petit de Grat wd (pop 1,982)
• Red Islands (pop 776)
• River Bourgeois wd (pop 964)
• River Inhabitants (pop 1,166)
• St. Peter wd (pop 991)

1881 census

• Arichat (pop 910)
• Arichat W-O wd (pop 1,586)
• Black River (pop 697)
• Descousse (pop 1,492)
• Forchu (pop 680)
• Grand River (pop 869)
• L'Ardoise (pop 1,966)
• Loch Lomond (pop 437)
• Petit de Grat wd (pop 1,922)
• Red Islands (pop 822)
• River Bourgeois wd (pop 1,100)
• River Inhabitants (pop 1,341)
• St. Peter wd (pop 1,299)

1891 census

• Arichat (pop 670)
• Arichat E (pop 1,061)
• Black River (pop 619)
• Descousse (pop 1,559)
• Framboise wd (pop 656)
• Grand River (pop 866)
• L'Ardoise (pop 858)
• Loch Lomond (pop 414)
• Petit de Grat wd (pop 612)
• Red Islands (pop 887)
• River Bourgeois wd (pop 1,120)
• River Inhabitants (pop 1,453)
• St. Peter wd (pop 1,199)
• Upper l’Ardoise (pop 1,236)
• West Arichat wd (pop 1,189)

1901 census

• Arichat (pop 591)
• Arichat, West—Ouest (pop 1,045)
• Black River (pop 517)
• D'Escousse wd (pop 765)
• Framboise wd (pop 595)
• Grand River (pop 689)
• Inhabitants River (pop 852)
• L'Ardoise (pop 885)
• Loch Lomond (pop 366)
• Petite de Grat (pop 1,513)
• Port Malcolm (pop 497)
• Poulamon (pop 825)
• Red Islands (pop 814)
• River Bourgeois wd (pop 1,129)
• Rockdale (pop 1,264)
• St. Peter wd (pop 1,168)

1911 census

• Arichat (pop 560)
• Arichat E. wd (pop 877)
• Arichat W.-O. wd (pop 1,004)
• Black River (pop 417)
• D'Escousse wd (pop 740)
• Framboise wd (pop 612)
• Grand River (pop 643)
• Inhabitants River (pop 900)
• L'Ardoise (pop 780)
• Loch Lomond (pop 1,448)
• Petit de Grat wd (pop 803)
• Port Malcolm (pop 585)
• Poulamon (pop 836)
• Red Islands (pop 760)
• River Bourgeois wd (pop 1,119)
• Rockdale (pop 1,178)
• St. Peter wd (pop 1,128)

1921 census

• Arichat (pop 499)
• Arichat E. & Petit de Grat (pop 1,749)
• Arichat W.-O. wd (pop 1,061)
• Black River (pop 343)
• D'Escousse wd (pop 574)
• Framboise wd (pop 471)
• Grand River (pop 556)
• Indian reserves (pop 261)
• Inhabitants River (pop 969)
• L'Ardoise (pop 694)
• Loch Lomond (pop 225)
• Port Malcolm (pop 601)
• Poulamon (pop 841)
• Red Islands (pop 432)
• River Bourgeois wd (pop 1,073)
• Rockdale (pop 1,111)
• St. Peter wd (pop 1,117)

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_Richmond
• Wikidata: Q2658971
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_County,_Nova_Scotia
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Richmond_(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.