Black River, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Name: Black River (1881)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Black River was a census subdivision in Richmond County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 697. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.712°N, 61.005°W.

Population

In 1881, Black River had a population of 697: 352 male and 345 female residents. Population density was 14.6 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	747
1881	697
1891	619
1901	517
1911	417
1921	343

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, Black River shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 74 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	112
Number of families	112
Number of females	345
Number of males	352
Number of married females	93
Number of married males	91
Number of married persons	184
Number of widowed females	32
Number of widowed males	6
Number of widowed persons	38
POP TOT	697
Total population	697

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	220
Number of single males under 18	255
Number of single persons under 18	475

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	4
Number of inhabited houses	112
Number of occupied houses	112
Number of uninhabited houses	6

Agriculture (23 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	1,262
Acres of potatoes	163
Acres of wheat	59
BAR BU	570
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	570
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	175
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	29
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	5,095
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	41
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	1
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	11,332
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	756
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	362
BWT BU	175
HAY AC	1,262
HAY TONS	1,314
OAT BU	5,095
PEA AND BEN BU	1
POT AC	163
POT BU	11,332
Tons of hay produced in the past year	1,314
WHT AC	59
WHT SP BU	756

Fisheries (6 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year	135
Fathoms of fishing nets	1,274
Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year	22
Number of fishing boats	24
Number of men on fishing boats	24
Quintals of cod produced in the past year	49

Other recorded variables (26 variables)

Variable	Value
BBL HERR OR ALE	135
BOAT MEN Q	24
BOATS FOR FISH	24
C UNMD F	220
C UNMD M	255
C UNMD TOT	475
CD NAME	Richmond
COD DX K	49
D OCC	112
FEMALE	345
GAL FISH OIL	22
GRA BU	29
H CON	4
H INHAB	112
H UNINH	6
MALE	352
MD F	93
MD M	91
MD TOT	184
NET XX F	1,274
NUMBER CD	7
OTHR ROOT BU	41
TUR BU	362
WID F	32
WID M	6
WID TOT	38

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS007005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS018004 — 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). "Black River, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/black-river-ns007005-1881/.