Boisdale, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Name: Boisdale (1881)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Boisdale was a census subdivision in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 900. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.070°N, 60.526°W.

Population

In 1881, Boisdale had a population of 900: 430 male and 470 female residents. Population density was 19.4 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	900
1891	935
1901	765
1911	685
1921	566

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, Boisdale 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	147
Number of families	147
Number of females	470
Number of males	430
Number of married females	106
Number of married males	107
Number of married persons	213
Number of widowed females	31
Number of widowed males	15
Number of widowed persons	46
POP TOT	900
Total population	900

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	333
Number of single males under 18	308
Number of single persons under 18	641

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	7
Number of inhabited houses	138
Number of occupied houses	138
Number of uninhabited houses	4

Agriculture (23 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	626
Acres of potatoes	240
Acres of wheat	71
BAR BU	1,350
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	1,350
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	20
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	33
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	8,060
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	23
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	2
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	22,794
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	886
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	314
BWT BU	20
HAY AC	626
HAY TONS	743
OAT BU	8,060
PEA AND BEN BU	2
POT AC	240
POT BU	22,794
Tons of hay produced in the past year	743
WHT AC	71
WHT SP BU	886

Fisheries (6 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year	6
Barrels of trout produced in the past year	1
Fathoms of fishing nets	125
Number of fishing boats	20
Number of men on fishing boats	50
Quintals of cod produced in the past year	171

Other recorded variables (26 variables)

Variable	Value
BBL HERR OR ALE	6
BOAT MEN Q	50
BOATS FOR FISH	20
C UNMD F	333
C UNMD M	308
C UNMD TOT	641
CD NAME	Cape Breton
COD DX K	171
D OCC	138
FEMALE	470
GRA BU	33
H CON	7
H INHAB	138
H UNINH	4
MALE	430
MD F	106
MD M	107
MD TOT	213
NET XX F	125
NUMBER CD	6
OTHR ROOT BU	23
TRT XB Q	1
TUR BU	314
WID F	31
WID M	15
WID TOT	46

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS006002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS006001 — 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). "Boisdale, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/boisdale-ns006002-1881/.