Shelburne & Queens, Nova Scotia

Shelburne & Queens was a Census Division in Nova Scotia as recorded in the 1901–1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. NS composite CD covering Shelburne and Queens counties together; no single Wikidata entity.

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

1901 census

• Barrington Head (pop 784)
• Beach Meadows (pop 667)
• Brookfield (pop 900)
• Brooklyn wd (pop 627)
• Caledonia wd (pop 863)
• Church Over (pop 784)
• Clark Harbour wd (pop 1,415)
• Clyde River wd (pop 958)
• Doctor Cove (pop 531)
• Greenfield (pop 494)
• Hunt Point (pop 412)
• Jordan Bay (pop 287)
• Jordan River (pop 520)
• Kempt wd (pop 376)
• Liverpool, T-V wd (pop 1,937)
• Lockeport wd (pop 1,117)
• Mill, VL wd (pop 713)
• Milton wd (pop 1,246)
• North Cape Island (pop 1,026)
• Northeast Harbour (pop 342)
• Ohio (pop 363)
• Port Latour wd (pop 812)
• Port Medway wd (pop 790)
• Port Mouton wd (pop 813)
• Ragged Island (pop 606)
• Sable River wd (pop 927)
• Sandy Point (pop 495)
• Shag Harbour wd (pop 604)
• Shelburne, Town—Ville wd (pop 1,445)
• Western Head (pop 388)
• Woods Harbour (pop 1,186)

1911 census

• Barrington Head (pop 1,244)
• Brookfield
• Brooklyn wd (pop 572)
• Caledonia wd
• Cape Negro (pop 368)
• Centreville wd (pop 1,140)
• Church Over (pop 469)
• Clark Harbour wd (pop 1,385)
• Clyde River wd (pop 649)
• Eagle Head wd (pop 644)
• Green Harbour (pop 882)
• Greenfield (pop 465)
• Hunt Point (pop 378)
• Jordan Bay (pop 300)
• Jordan River (pop 551)
• Kempt wd
• Lewis Head (pop 630)
• Liverpool, T-V wd (pop 2,109)
• Lockeport wd (pop 784)
• Mill, VL wd (pop 721)
• Milton wd (pop 1,291)
• NO DATA
• Northeast Harbour (pop 349)
• Ohio
• Port Latour wd (pop 758)
• Port Medway wd (pop 644)
• Port Mouton wd (pop 897)
• Roseway McNutts Island (pop 250)
• Sable River wd (pop 272)
• Sandy Point (pop 560)
• Shag Harbour wd (pop 583)
• Shelburne, T-V wd (pop 1,435)
• Western Head (pop 354)
• Woods Harbour (pop 1,171)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

• Re-formed from Queens (1871–1891), Shelburne (1871–1891) in 1901.
• Split into Queens (1921), Shelburne (1921) in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NS_Shelburne_&_Queens

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.