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Year: 1871  |  Province: Nova Scotia

Brookfield, Nova Scotia (1871 census)

Brookfield was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 660. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.409°N, 64.921°W.

Population

In 1871, Brookfield had a population of 660: 333 male and 327 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.

Earlier boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, Brookfield shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 18 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 660 total population, 333 males, 327 females, 215 married persons, 116 families, 108 married females, 107 married males, 23 widowed persons, 20 widowed females, 3 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 422 single persons under 18, 223 single males under 18, 199 single females under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 112 inhabited houses, 112 occupied houses, 3 uninhabited houses, 1 houses under construction. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 57,400 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1871 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). "Brookfield, Nova Scotia (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/brookfield-ns194007-1871/.