Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

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

Ferguson's Cove was a census subdivision in Halifax (County-Comté) County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 757. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.586°N, 63.582°W.

Population

In 1881, Ferguson's Cove had a population of 757: 396 male and 361 female residents. Population density was 53.5 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	667
1881	757

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, Ferguson's Cove shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 72 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	123
Number of families	123
Number of females	361
Number of males	396
Number of married females	102
Number of married males	103
Number of married persons	205
Number of widowed females	20
Number of widowed males	15
Number of widowed persons	35
POP TOT	757
Total population	757

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	239
Number of single males under 18	278
Number of single persons under 18	517

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	5
Number of inhabited houses	121
Number of occupied houses	121
Number of uninhabited houses	15

Agriculture (12 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	140
Acres of potatoes	27
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	1
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	12
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	1,724
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	11
HAY AC	140
HAY TONS	147
OAT BU	12
POT AC	27
POT BU	1,724
Tons of hay produced in the past year	147

Fisheries (11 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year	237
Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year	2,380
Fathoms of fishing nets	14,230
Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year	3,285
Number of fishing boats	175
Number of fishing vessels	16
Number of men on fishing boats	275
Number of men on fishing vessels	106
Number of shoremen	6
Quintals of cod produced in the past year	5,868
Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year	840

Other recorded variables (30 variables)

Variable	Value
BBL HERR OR ALE	237
BOAT MEN Q	275
BOATS FOR FISH	175
C UNMD F	239
C UNMD M	278
C UNMD TOT	517
CD NAME	Halifax (County-Comté)
COD DX K	5,868
D OCC	121
FEMALE	361
GAL FISH OIL	3,285
GRA BU	1
H CON	5
H INHAB	121
H UNINH	15
HAD DX K	840
MALE	396
MCK XB Q	2,380
MD F	102
MD M	103
MD TOT	205
NET XX F	14,230
NUMBER CD	10
SHOREMEN XX Q	6
TUR BU	11
VESSEL MEN Q	106
VESSEL XX Q	16
WID F	20
WID M	15
WID TOT	35

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS010002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS010002 — 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). "Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/ferguson-s-cove-ns010002-1881/.