Burlington, Nova Scotia (1921 census)

Burlington was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1921 Census of Canada with a population of 506. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q4999189. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.101°N, 64.055°W.

Population

In 1921, Burlington had a population of 506: 273 male and 233 female residents.

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 1921

In the 1921 census, Burlington shared boundaries with:

• Avondale (Newport Sounding)
• Gore
• Kempt
• Scotch Village
• Walton

Full census record, 1921

The 1921 census recorded 22 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1921). This community's record includes 506 total population, 273 males in the population, 262 males born in Canada, 233 females in the population, 220 females born in Canada, 7 females born in the British Empire (excluding Canada), 6 females born outside the British Empire, 6 males born outside the British Empire, 5 males born in the British Empire (excluding Canada). (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T16.)

Ethnic origin (1921). This community's record includes 453 persons of British origin (English), 22 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 11 persons of British origin (Irish), 11 persons of Dutch origin, 9 persons of German origin. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T27.)

Religion (1921). This community's record includes 344 Methodists, 121 Baptists, 21 Presbyterians, 15 Anglicans (Church of England), 2 Salvation Army adherents, 1 adherents of other sects (residual category in 1921), 1 Congregationalists, 1 Protestants (general / no denomination specified). (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T38.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: NS012002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS012002_1891 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q4999189
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington,_Nova_Scotia

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1921 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). "Burlington, Nova Scotia (1921 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/burlington-ns012002-1921/.