Drysdale's Cove, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Name: Drysdale's Cove (1881)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Drysdale's Cove was a census subdivision in Halifax (County-Comté) County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 438. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.585°N, 63.684°W.

Population

In 1881, Drysdale's Cove had a population of 438: 223 male and 215 female residents. Population density was 7.3 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	407
1881	438

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, Drysdale's Cove shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 70 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	79
Number of families	79
Number of females	215
Number of males	223
Number of married females	66
Number of married males	66
Number of married persons	132
Number of widowed females	13
Number of widowed males	2
Number of widowed persons	15
POP TOT	438
Total population	438

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	136
Number of single males under 18	155
Number of single persons under 18	291

Buildings & housing (5 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties	1
Number of houses under construction	1
Number of inhabited houses	70
Number of occupied houses	71
Number of uninhabited houses	9

Agriculture (16 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	424
Acres of potatoes	34
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	4
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	667
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	573
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	73
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	4,364
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	796
CRN BU	4
HAY AC	424
HAY TONS	713
OAT BU	667
PEA AND BEN BU	73
POT AC	34
POT BU	4,364
Tons of hay produced in the past year	713

Fisheries (7 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year	15
Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year	400
Barrels of trout produced in the past year	1
Fathoms of fishing nets	3,760
Number of fishing boats	12
Number of men on fishing boats	15
Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year	15

Other recorded variables (27 variables)

Variable	Value
BOAT MEN Q	15
BOATS FOR FISH	12
C UNMD F	136
C UNMD M	155
C UNMD TOT	291
CD NAME	Halifax (County-Comté)
D OCC	71
FEMALE	215
GSP XB Q	15
H CON	1
H INHAB	70
H UNINH	9
HAD DX K	15
MALE	223
MCK XB Q	400
MD F	66
MD M	66
MD TOT	132
NET XX F	3,760
NUMBER CD	10
OTHR ROOT BU	573
SHAN	1
TRT XB Q	1
TUR BU	796
WID F	13
WID M	2
WID TOT	15

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS010007 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS010007 — 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). "Drysdale's Cove, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/drysdale-s-cove-ns010007-1881/.