Sackville, New Brunswick (1881 census)

Sackville was a census subdivision in New Brunswick, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 4,882. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3365883. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.971°N, 64.379°W.

Population

In 1881, Sackville had a population of 4,882: 2,524 male and 2,358 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).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Sackville shared boundaries with:

• Botsford
• Dorchester
• Shediac
• Westmorland

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 39 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 4,882 total population, 2,524 males, 2,358 females, 1,592 married persons, 895 families, 800 married males, 792 married females, 144 widowed persons, 99 widowed females, 45 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 3,146 single persons under 18, 1,679 single males under 18, 1,467 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 800 occupied houses, 799 inhabited houses, 20 uninhabited houses, 6 houses under construction, 1 dwellings that are temporary vessels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 102,851 bushels of potatoes, 35,434 bushels of turnips, 26,814 bushels of oats, 25,000 bushels of other root crops, 14,251 tons of hay, 9,494 bushels of buckwheat, 9,302 acres of hay crops, 8,988 bushels of spring wheat, 5,206 bushels of barley, 628 acres of wheat, 603 acres of potatoes, 309 bushels of peas and beans, 64 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 22 bushels of rye, 7 bushels of corn. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 1,355 fathoms of fishing nets, 7 men on fishing boats, 6 fishing boats, 3 barrels of gaspareaux, 1 quintals of fascines fish. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 66 barrels of shad — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 3 people connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 4,882 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: NB033002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB024005_1871 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3365883
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackville_Parish
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroisse_de_Sackville

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). "Sackville, New Brunswick (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/sackville-nb033002-1881/.