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Year: 1871  |  Province: Nova Scotia

Crow Harbour, Nova Scotia (1871 census)

Crow Harbour was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 796. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.334°N, 61.316°W.

Population

In 1871, Crow Harbour had a population of 796: 392 male and 404 female residents. Population density was 16.7 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1871796
1881775
1891788
1901828
1911811
1921803

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

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, Crow Harbour shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 49 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (10 variables)
VariableValue
Number of families118
Number of females404
Number of males392
Number of married females106
Number of married males108
Number of married persons214
Number of widowed females27
Number of widowed males6
Number of widowed persons33
Total population796
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18271
Number of single males under 18278
Number of single persons under 18549
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
VariableValue
Number of houses under construction10
Number of inhabited houses118
Number of occupied houses118
Number of uninhabited houses5
Agriculture (9 variables)
VariableValue
BAR BU23
BWT BU15
HAY AC306
HAY TONS354
OAT BU493
PEA BU1
POT AC50
POT BU5,096
Total area (acres)28,000
Other recorded variables (23 variables)
VariableValue
AREA28,000
BEING BUILT10
BEN BU12
CD202
CSD2
FAMILIES118
FEMALE404
HOUSES OCCUPIED118
INHABITED118
MALE392
MARRIED F106
MARRIED M108
MARRIED TOTAL214
POPULATION796
ROOT BU49
SINGLE F271
SINGLE M278
SINGLE TOTAL549
TUR BU543
UNINHABITED5
WIDOWED F27
WIDOWED M6
WIDOWED TOTAL33

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). "Crow Harbour, Nova Scotia (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/crow-harbour-ns202002-1871/.