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Year: 1871  |  Province: Nova Scotia

Green Hill, Nova Scotia (1871 census)

Green Hill was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 888. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.610°N, 62.814°W.

Population

In 1871, Green Hill had a population of 888: 451 male and 437 female residents. Population density was 34.6 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1871888
1881858
1891757
1901635
1911497
1921480

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, Green Hill shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 54 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (10 variables)
VariableValue
Number of families155
Number of females437
Number of males451
Number of married females134
Number of married males134
Number of married persons268
Number of widowed females20
Number of widowed males13
Number of widowed persons33
Total population888
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18283
Number of single males under 18304
Number of single persons under 18587
Buildings & housing (5 variables)
VariableValue
Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties2
Number of houses under construction3
Number of inhabited houses152
Number of occupied houses154
Number of uninhabited houses10
Agriculture (10 variables)
VariableValue
BAR BU1,792
BWT BU800
HAY AC1,977
HAY TONS1,775
OAT BU27,492
PEA BU153
POT AC154
POT BU20,310
Total area (acres)9,000
WHT SP BU3,374
Other recorded variables (26 variables)
VariableValue
ACRES249
AREA9,000
BEING BUILT3
BEN BU29
CD200
CSD9
FAMILIES155
FEMALE437
GRA BU74
HOUSES OCCUPIED154
INHABITED152
MALE451
MARRIED F134
MARRIED M134
MARRIED TOTAL268
POPULATION888
ROOT BU124
SHANTIES2
SINGLE F283
SINGLE M304
SINGLE TOTAL587
TUR BU2,228
UNINHABITED10
WIDOWED F20
WIDOWED M13
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). "Green Hill, Nova Scotia (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/green-hill-ns200009-1871/.