Grand Manan, New Brunswick (1881 census)

Grand Manan was a census subdivision in New Brunswick, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,616. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q54801369. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.696°N, 66.806°W.

Population

In 1881, Grand Manan had a population of 2,616: 1,363 male and 1,253 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 44 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 2,616 total population, 1,363 males, 1,253 females, 994 married persons, 521 families, 500 married females, 494 married males, 83 widowed persons, 56 widowed females, 27 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,539 single persons under 18, 842 single males under 18, 697 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 443 inhabited houses, 443 occupied houses, 15 uninhabited houses, 12 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 21,098 bushels of potatoes, 3,212 bushels of turnips, 1,272 tons of hay, 1,073 bushels of oats, 960 acres of hay crops, 415 bushels of other root crops, 316 bushels of spring wheat, 156 acres of potatoes, 82 bushels of barley, 63 bushels of buckwheat, 61 bushels of peas and beans, 20 bushels of winter wheat, 15 acres of wheat, 6 bushels of corn, 5 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 55,721 barrels of herring or alewives, 19,868 gallons of fish oil, 15,683 quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock, 12,617 fathoms of fishing nets, 8,982 quintals of cod, 668 men on fishing boats, 502 fishing boats, 65 men on fishing vessels, 44 shoremen, 28 quintals of fascines fish, 12 fishing vessels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 65,600 pounds of lobster canned — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 2,616 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: NB026018 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB024005 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q54801369
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Manan_(village)

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1881 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "Grand Manan, New Brunswick (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/grand-manan-nb026018-1881/.