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Year: 1881  |  Province: Nova Scotia

Boularderie, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Boularderie was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,359. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.257°N, 60.350°W.

Population

In 1881, Boularderie had a population of 1,359: 710 male and 649 female residents.

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Boularderie shared boundaries with:

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 1,359 total population, 710 males, 649 females, 374 married persons, 234 families, 187 married females, 187 married males, 54 widowed persons, 44 widowed females, 10 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 931 single persons under 18, 513 single males under 18, 418 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 226 occupied houses, 225 inhabited houses, 12 houses under construction, 6 uninhabited houses, 1 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 30,262 bushels of potatoes, 15,743 bushels of oats, 1,720 tons of hay, 1,567 bushels of turnips, 1,481 bushels of spring wheat, 1,124 acres of hay crops, 984 bushels of barley, 240 acres of potatoes, 112 acres of wheat, 67 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 36 bushels of buckwheat, 34 bushels of other root crops, 13 bushels of peas and beans. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 2,725 fathoms of fishing nets, 1,229 quintals of cod, 610 barrels of herring or alewives, 450 gallons of fish oil, 109 quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock, 55 men on fishing boats, 34 fishing boats, 26 men on fishing vessels, 11 barrels of mackerel, 7 barrels of halibut, 4 fishing vessels, 3 barrels of other fish, 2 barrels of eels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 7 barrels of oysters — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,359 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

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-ns006003-1881/.