Victoria (1871–1901), Nova Scotia

Victoria (1871–1901) was a Census Division in Nova Scotia as recorded in the 1871–1901 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 Q1116334.

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

• Baddeck (pop 1,749)
• Bay St. Lawrence wd (pop 419)
• Boularderie (pop 1,287)
• Cape North wd (pop 783)
• Englishtown (pop 524)
• Ingonish (pop 800)
• King’s Cove (pop 433)
• Little Narrows (pop 855)
• Middle River wd (pop 1,006)
• Monro’s Point, St. Ann’s (pop 1,679)
• Plaster (pop 640)
• Washabucht (pop 1,171)

1881 census

• Baddeck (pop 1,765)
• Bay St. Lawrence wd (pop 515)
• Boularderie (pop 1,504)
• Cape North wd (pop 1,215)
• Englishtown (pop 585)
• Grand Narrows wd (pop 1,280)
• Ingonish (pop 1,088)
• Little Narrows N (pop 332)
• Little Narrows S (pop 485)
• Middle River wd (pop 966)
• New Campbellton (pop 482)
• North River (pop 768)
• North Shore (pop 697)
• South Gut (pop 788)

1891 census

• Baddeck (pop 1,285)
• Bay St. Lawrence wd (pop 618)
• Big Baddeck (pop 689)
• Boularderie (pop 1,240)
• Cape North wd (pop 1,051)
• Englishtown (pop 515)
• Grand Narrows wd (pop 1,283)
• Ingonish (pop 1,266)
• Little Narrows N (pop 340)
• Little Narrows S (pop 559)
• Middle River wd (pop 896)
• New Campbellton (pop 384)
• New Haven (pop 429)
• North River (pop 613)
• North Shore (pop 621)
• South Gut (pop 643)

1901 census

• Baddeck (pop 1,235)
• Bay St. Lawrence wd (pop 479)
• Big Baddeck (pop 532)
• Big Bras d'Or (pop 326)
• Boularderie (pop 663)
• Cape North wd (pop 938)
• Englishtown (pop 359)
• Ingonish (pop 954)
• Iona (Jamesville) (pop 794)
• Little Narrows N (pop 306)
• Little Narrows S (pop 453)
• Middle River wd (pop 745)
• Neil Harbour wd (pop 373)
• New Campbellton (pop 391)
• North River (pop 536)
• North Shore (pop 615)
• South Gut (pop 437)
• Washabuck (pop 435)

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 Cape Breton N. & Victoria in 1911.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_NS_Victoria
• Wikidata: Q1116334
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_County,_Nova_Scotia
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Victoria_(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.