Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Halifax (County-Comté)
Haggett's Cove, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
Haggett's Cove was a census subdivision in Halifax (County-Comté) County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,176. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.556°N, 63.872°W.
Population
In 1881, Haggett's Cove had a population of 1,176: 627 male and 549 female residents.
Population trajectory across census years
| Year | Population |
|---|
| 1871 | 1,009 |
| 1881 | 1,176 |
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, Haggett's Cove shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 88 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 216 |
| Number of families | 216 |
| Number of females | 549 |
| Number of males | 627 |
| Number of married females | 199 |
| Number of married males | 202 |
| Number of married persons | 401 |
| Number of widowed females | 22 |
| Number of widowed males | 22 |
| Number of widowed persons | 44 |
| POP TOT | 1,176 |
| Total population | 1,176 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 328 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 403 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 731 |
Buildings & housing (5 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties | 1 |
| Number of houses under construction | 3 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 198 |
| Number of occupied houses | 199 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 6 |
Agriculture (21 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 170 |
| Acres of potatoes | 104 |
| Acres of wheat | 2 |
| BAR BU | 593 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 593 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 1 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 2 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 166 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 570 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 11,191 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 33 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 426 |
| BWT BU | 1 |
| HAY AC | 170 |
| HAY TONS | 337 |
| OAT BU | 166 |
| POT AC | 104 |
| POT BU | 11,191 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 337 |
| WHT AC | 2 |
| WHT SP BU | 33 |
Fisheries (13 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 58 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 2,258 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 4,959 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 20 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 44,180 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 3,593 |
| Number of fishing boats | 336 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 6 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 351 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 40 |
| Number of shoremen | 4 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 4,994 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 2,715 |
Other recorded variables (34 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 2,258 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 351 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 336 |
| C UNMD F | 328 |
| C UNMD M | 403 |
| C UNMD TOT | 731 |
| CD NAME | Halifax (County-Comté) |
| COD DX K | 4,994 |
| D OCC | 199 |
| FEMALE | 549 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 3,593 |
| GRA BU | 2 |
| GSP XB Q | 58 |
| H CON | 3 |
| H INHAB | 198 |
| H UNINH | 6 |
| HAD DX K | 2,715 |
| MALE | 627 |
| MCK XB Q | 4,959 |
| MD F | 199 |
| MD M | 202 |
| MD TOT | 401 |
| NET XX F | 44,180 |
| NUMBER CD | 10 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 570 |
| SHAN | 1 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 4 |
| SLM XB Q | 20 |
| TUR BU | 426 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 40 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 6 |
| WID F | 22 |
| WID M | 22 |
| WID TOT | 44 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS010008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS010008 — 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). "Haggett's Cove, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/haggett-s-cove-ns010008-1881/.