Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Victoria
Boularderie, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
Boularderie was a census subdivision in Victoria County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,504. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.182°N, 60.520°W.
Population
In 1881, Boularderie had a population of 1,504: 710 male and 794 female residents. Population density was 38.0 people per square mile.
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, Boularderie shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 86 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 236 |
| Number of families | 236 |
| Number of females | 794 |
| Number of males | 710 |
| Number of married females | 186 |
| Number of married males | 186 |
| Number of married persons | 372 |
| Number of widowed females | 58 |
| Number of widowed males | 16 |
| Number of widowed persons | 74 |
| POP TOT | 1,504 |
| Total population | 1,504 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 550 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 508 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 1,058 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 1 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 236 |
| Number of occupied houses | 236 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 2 |
Agriculture (23 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,540 |
| Acres of potatoes | 324 |
| Acres of wheat | 141 |
| BAR BU | 590 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 590 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 26 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 64 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 17,921 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 49 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 11 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 28,987 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 1,382 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 385 |
| BWT BU | 26 |
| HAY AC | 1,540 |
| HAY TONS | 1,868 |
| OAT BU | 17,921 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 11 |
| POT AC | 324 |
| POT BU | 28,987 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,868 |
| WHT AC | 141 |
| WHT SP BU | 1,382 |
Fisheries (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 1 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 228 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 6 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 7 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 1,282 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 302 |
| Number of fishing boats | 64 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 1 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 99 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 6 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 712 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 32 |
Other recorded variables (32 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 228 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 99 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 64 |
| C UNMD F | 550 |
| C UNMD M | 508 |
| C UNMD TOT | 1,058 |
| CD NAME | Victoria |
| COD DX K | 712 |
| D OCC | 236 |
| FEMALE | 794 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 302 |
| GRA BU | 64 |
| GSP XB Q | 1 |
| H CON | 1 |
| H INHAB | 236 |
| H UNINH | 2 |
| HAD DX K | 32 |
| MALE | 710 |
| MCK XB Q | 6 |
| MD F | 186 |
| MD M | 186 |
| MD TOT | 372 |
| NET XX F | 1,282 |
| NUMBER CD | 5 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 49 |
| SLM XB Q | 7 |
| TUR BU | 385 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 6 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 1 |
| WID F | 58 |
| WID M | 16 |
| WID TOT | 74 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS005006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS006002 — 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). "Boularderie, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/boularderie-ns005006-1881/.