Englishtown, Nova Scotia (1891 census)

Name: Englishtown (1891)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Englishtown was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 515. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.295°N, 60.502°W.

Population

In 1891, Englishtown had a population of 515: 265 male and 250 female residents. Population density was 41.9 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	524
1881	585
1891	515
1901	359
1911	372
1921	278

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Englishtown shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 143 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	6.70
FAM NO	77
Number of families	77
Number of females	250
Number of males	265
Number of married females	63
Number of married males	62
Number of married persons	125
Number of widowed females	13
Number of widowed males	6
Number of widowed persons	19
POP F	250
POP M	265
POP TOT	515
Total population	515

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	174
Number of single males under 18	197
Number of single persons under 18	371

Ethnic origin (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	515

Buildings & housing (14 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	77
Number of houses built of wood	77
Number of houses of 1 room	5
Number of houses of 1 story	72
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	1
Number of houses of 2 rooms	9
Number of houses of 2 stories	5
Number of houses of 3 rooms	15
Number of houses of 4 rooms	11
Number of houses of 5 rooms	18
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	18
Number of houses under construction	1
Number of occupied houses	77
Number of uninhabited houses	4

Agriculture (49 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of barley	18
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	8
Acres of farmland in pasture	1,187
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	6,705
Acres of farmland under crops	1,431
Acres of hay crops	514
Acres of improved land in farms	2,626
Acres of land in farms	9,331
Acres of oats	149
Acres of potatoes	48
BAR AC	18
BAR BU	209
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	209
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	1,289
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	4,768
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	18
HAY AC	514
HAY TONS	415
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	65
Number of chickens	583
Number of ducks	13
Number of farm occupants who own their land	76
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	5
Number of geese	8
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	8
Number of horses aged over 3 years	43
Number of milk cows	187
Number of occupants of farms	81
Number of other cattle	126
Number of other fowl	9
Number of oxen	23
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	35
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	10
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	23
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	12
Number of sheep	526
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	288
Number of swine	53
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	65
Number of turkeys	9
OAT AC	149
OAT BU	1,289
POT AC	48
POT BU	4,768
Pounds of cheese produced on farms in the past year	88
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	1,783
Pounds of homemade butter	8,675
Tons of hay produced in the past year	415

Other recorded variables (61 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	35
A 11 50	10
A 201 PL	1
A 51 100	23
BUTTER LB	8,675
CATTLE KS	65
CHEESE LB	88
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	174
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	197
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	371
COARSE WOOL LB	1,783
COLTS FILLIES	8
DUCKS	13
FAMILIES	77
FAMILIES AV SIZE	6.70
FRN CA	0
GEESE	8
HENS AND CHKN	583
HORSES OVR THREE	43
HOUSES	77
HOUSES CON	1
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	1
HOUSES FIVE RM	18
HOUSES FOUR RM	11
HOUSES ONE RM	5
HOUSES ONE STRY	72
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	18
HOUSES THREE RM	15
HOUSES TWO RM	9
HOUSES TWO STRY	5
HOUSES UNINH	4
HOUSES W	77
INF 11 A	12
MD FEM	63
MD MALE	62
MD TOT	125
MILK COWS	187
NAME CD	Victoria
OC F	5
OC P	76
OC TOT	81
OTHER FOWL	9
OTHER HRN CATTLE	126
OTHERS	515
SHEEP	526
SHEEP KS	288
SUP AM	2,626
SUP FOR	6,705
SUP JV	8
SUP PAT	1,187
SUP SC	1,431
SUP TOT	9,331
SWINE	53
SWINE KS	65
TOT DWLG OCC	77
TUR BU	18
TURKEY	9
WID FEM	13
WID MALE	6
WID TOT	19
WORKING OX	23

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS043006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS020008_1871 — 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 1891 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). "Englishtown, Nova Scotia (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/englishtown-ns043006-1891/.