Shelburne (1871–1891), Nova Scotia

Shelburne (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 Q2096191.

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

• Barrington (pop 1,527)
• Cape Sable Island wd (pop 1,636)
• Carleton, Village (pop 1,044)
• Louis Head (pop 917)
• Port La Tour wd (pop 1,477)
• Ragged Island (pop 1,579)
• Shag Harbor (pop 1,448)
• Shelburne, T-V wd (pop 2,789)

1881 census

• Barrington (pop 1,662)
• Birchtown, Gunning Cove wd (pop 525)
• Cape Sable Island wd (pop 1,991)
• Clyde River wd (pop 1,257)
• Jordan River (pop 604)
• Lockeport wd (pop 1,918)
• Ohio (pop 383)
• Port La Tour wd (pop 1,798)
• Sable River, Louis Head (pop 988)
• Shag & Wood's Harbour (pop 1,732)
• Shelburn, Town—Ville wd (pop 2,055)

1891 census

• Barrington (pop 880)
• Barrington Passage wd (pop 625)
• Cape Sable Island wd (pop 1,029)
• Cape Sable Island Centre (pop 1,088)
• Church Over (pop 630)
• Green Harbour (pop 687)
• Jordan Bay W-O (pop 390)
• Jordan Falls wd (pop 600)
• Lockeport wd (pop 1,220)
• Louis Head (pop 1,000)
• Northeast Harbour (pop 834)
• Ohio (pop 373)
• Port Clyde wd (pop 1,004)
• Port Latour wd (pop 1,049)
• Sandy Point (pop 485)
• Shag Harbour wd (pop 628)
• Shelburne, T-V wd (pop 1,300)
• Woods Harbour (pop 1,134)

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_Shelburne
• Wikidata: Q2096191
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelburne_County
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Shelburne

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.