Arichat, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Arichat was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 910. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.537°N, 61.018°W.

Population

In 1881, Arichat had a population of 910: 435 male and 475 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, Arichat shared boundaries with:

• Arichat W-O
• Descousse
• Petit de Grat

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 45 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 910 total population, 475 females, 435 males, 263 married persons, 169 families, 133 married females, 130 married males, 58 widowed persons, 44 widowed females, 14 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 589 single persons under 18, 298 single females under 18, 291 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 162 inhabited houses, 162 occupied houses, 13 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 4,009 bushels of potatoes, 1,099 bushels of turnips, 645 tons of hay, 585 bushels of oats, 438 bushels of other root crops, 345 acres of hay crops, 50 acres of potatoes, 43 bushels of peas and beans, 33 bushels of spring wheat, 24 bushels of barley, 4 bushels of winter wheat, 3 acres of wheat, 1 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 1 bushels of corn. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 4,723 fathoms of fishing nets, 563 barrels of herring or alewives, 303 quintals of cod, 271 barrels of mackerel, 239 quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock, 212 gallons of fish oil, 90 men on fishing boats, 82 fishing boats, 50 barrels of gaspareaux, 16 men on fishing vessels, 4 fishing vessels, 3 shoremen, 1 barrels of eels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 64,500 pounds of lobster canned, 4 barrels of oysters — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 2 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 2,484 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: NS007001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS018001 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.

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). "Arichat, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/arichat-ns007001-1881/.