Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Lunenburg
Baywater, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
Baywater was a census subdivision in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 536. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.558°N, 64.118°W.
Population
In 1881, Baywater had a population of 536: 283 male and 253 female residents. Population density was 17.1 people per square mile.
Population trajectory across census years
| Year | Population |
|---|
| 1881 | 536 |
| 1891 | 608 |
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, Baywater shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 78 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 108 |
| Number of families | 108 |
| Number of females | 253 |
| Number of males | 283 |
| Number of married females | 96 |
| Number of married males | 97 |
| Number of married persons | 193 |
| Number of widowed females | 6 |
| Number of widowed males | 5 |
| Number of widowed persons | 11 |
| POP TOT | 536 |
| Total population | 536 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 151 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 181 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 332 |
Buildings & housing (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of inhabited houses | 91 |
| Number of occupied houses | 91 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 2 |
Agriculture (18 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 234 |
| Acres of potatoes | 56 |
| BAR BU | 1,578 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 1,578 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 220 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 1,331 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 15 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 5,208 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 3 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 636 |
| HAY AC | 234 |
| HAY TONS | 309 |
| OAT BU | 220 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 15 |
| POT AC | 56 |
| POT BU | 5,208 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 309 |
| WHT SP BU | 3 |
Fisheries (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 1 |
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 3 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 1,287 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 2,545 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 23,585 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 442 |
| Number of fishing boats | 169 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 1 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 192 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 5 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 708 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 211 |
Other recorded variables (30 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 1,287 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 192 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 169 |
| C UNMD F | 151 |
| C UNMD M | 181 |
| C UNMD TOT | 332 |
| CD NAME | Lunenburg |
| COD DX K | 708 |
| D OCC | 91 |
| EEL XB Q | 1 |
| FEMALE | 253 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 442 |
| GSP XB Q | 3 |
| H INHAB | 91 |
| H UNINH | 2 |
| HAD DX K | 211 |
| MALE | 283 |
| MCK XB Q | 2,545 |
| MD F | 96 |
| MD M | 97 |
| MD TOT | 193 |
| NET XX F | 23,585 |
| NUMBER CD | 11 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 1,331 |
| TUR BU | 636 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 5 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 1 |
| WID F | 6 |
| WID M | 5 |
| WID TOT | 11 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS011011 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS038001 — 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). "Baywater, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/baywater-ns011011-1881/.