Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Inverness
Broad Cove Marsh, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
Broad Cove Marsh was a census subdivision in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,075. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.295°N, 61.210°W.
Population
In 1881, Broad Cove Marsh had a population of 1,075: 510 male and 565 female residents. Population density was 44.3 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, Broad Cove Marsh shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 80 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 142 |
| Number of families | 142 |
| Number of females | 565 |
| Number of males | 510 |
| Number of married females | 105 |
| Number of married males | 105 |
| Number of married persons | 210 |
| Number of widowed females | 29 |
| Number of widowed males | 16 |
| Number of widowed persons | 45 |
| POP TOT | 1,075 |
| Total population | 1,075 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 431 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 389 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 820 |
Buildings & housing (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of inhabited houses | 139 |
| Number of occupied houses | 139 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 1 |
Agriculture (21 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,592 |
| Acres of potatoes | 211 |
| Acres of wheat | 604 |
| BAR BU | 1,304 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 1,304 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 487 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 45 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 12,489 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 6 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 16,983 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 1,339 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 1,441 |
| BWT BU | 487 |
| HAY AC | 1,592 |
| HAY TONS | 2,167 |
| OAT BU | 12,489 |
| POT AC | 211 |
| POT BU | 16,983 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 2,167 |
| WHT AC | 604 |
| WHT SP BU | 1,339 |
Fisheries (11 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 2 |
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 79 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 110 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 872 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 824 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 286 |
| Number of fishing boats | 29 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 54 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 429 |
| Quintals of fascines fish produced in the past year | 17 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 179 |
Other recorded variables (30 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 110 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 54 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 29 |
| C UNMD F | 431 |
| C UNMD M | 389 |
| C UNMD TOT | 820 |
| CD NAME | Inverness |
| COD DX K | 429 |
| D OCC | 139 |
| EEL XB Q | 2 |
| FASCINE FISH Q | 17 |
| FEMALE | 565 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 286 |
| GRA BU | 45 |
| GSP XB Q | 79 |
| H INHAB | 139 |
| H UNINH | 1 |
| HAD DX K | 179 |
| MALE | 510 |
| MCK XB Q | 872 |
| MD F | 105 |
| MD M | 105 |
| MD TOT | 210 |
| NET XX F | 824 |
| NUMBER CD | 4 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 6 |
| TUR BU | 1,441 |
| WID F | 29 |
| WID M | 16 |
| WID TOT | 45 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS004010 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS013001 — 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). "Broad Cove Marsh, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/broad-cove-marsh-ns004010-1881/.