Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Name: Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (1881)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 3,598. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.642°N, 63.592°W.

Population

In 1881, Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 had a population of 3,598: 1,718 male and 1,880 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	3,320
1881	3,598
1891	3,672
1901	7,440

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, Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 29 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 3,598 total population, 1,880 females, 1,718 males, 1,050 married persons, 679 families, 533 married females, 517 married males, 212 widowed persons, 160 widowed females, 52 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 2,336 single persons under 18, 1,187 single females under 18, 1,149 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 471 occupied houses, 470 inhabited houses, 29 uninhabited houses, 7 houses under construction, 1 dwellings that are temporary vessels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 2,109 bushels of potatoes, 1,332 bushels of other root crops, 255 bushels of turnips, 146 tons of hay, 132 bushels of peas and beans, 100 acres of hay crops, 55 bushels of barley, 35 bushels of oats, 26 bushels of corn, 20 acres of potatoes, 1 bushels of rye. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 78 people connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Sir William Young	1799–1887	died here
Edward Kenny	1800–1891	died here
William Pryor	1801–1884	died here
Matthew Richey	1803–1883	died here
Martin Isaac Wilkins	1804–1881	died here
Mary Christianne Paul	1804–1886	died here
John Pryor	1805–1892	died here
Daniel Cronan	1807–1892	died here
Henry Pryor	1808–1892	died here
John William Ritchie	1808–1890	died here
Thomas B. Akins	1809–1891	died here
William Gossip	1809–1889	died here
Andrew Downs	1811–1892	died here
George Elkana Morton	1811–1892	died here
William Hunter Odell	1811–1891	died here
William Lyall	1811–1890	died here
Hugh William Hoyles	1814–1888	died here
William Chamberlain Silver	1814–1903	died here
Patrick Power	1815–1881	died here
Constant Garnier	1816–1894	died here
Samuel Leonard Shannon	1816–1895	died here
William Johnston Almon	1816–1901	died here
David Honeyman	1817–1889	died here
Susanna Lucy Anne Haliburton	1817–1899	died here
Duncan Campbell	1818–1886	died here
James Ratchford Dewolf	1818–1901	died here
Michael Septimus Brown	1818–1886	died here
William Jones Stairs	1819–1906	died here
William Church Moir	1822–1896	died here
A. G. (Alfred Gilpin) Jones	1824–1906	died here
Archibald Woodbury McLelan	1824–1890	died here
Henry Frederick Busch	1826–1902	died here
Henry William Smith	1826–1890	died here
Peter Stevens Hamilton	1826–1893	died here
George Lawson	1827–1895	died here
Charles Macdonald	1828–1901	died here
Mary Jane Katzmann	1828–1890	died here
John Taylor Wood Confederate Navy officer (1830-1904)	1830–1904	died here
Otto Schwartz Weeks	1830–1892	died here
John Daniel O’Connell O’Brien	1831–1891	died here
John Lathern	1831–1905	died here
Isabella Forrest	1832–1905	died here
Isaac Sallis	1833–1904	died here
James Scott Hutton	1833–1891	died here
Michael Joseph Power	1834–1895	died here
Mary Ann Maguire	1837–1905	died here
Emil Vossnack	1839–1885	died here
Arthur C. Lessel	1840–1895	died here
Charlotte Anne Geddie	1840–1906	died here
Lucy Anne Rogers Butler	1841–1906	died here
Peter Evander McKerrow	1841–1906	died here
Edward Farrell	1842–1901	died here
Cornelius O'Brien	1843–1906	died here
David Hunter Duncan	1843–1903	died here
James Charles Philip Dumaresq	1844–1906	died here
Henry Dugwell Blackadar	1845–1901	died here
Joanna Harrington	1845–1895	died here
John Thomas Bulmer	1845–1901	died here
John Naylor	1847–1906	died here
Donald Alexander Stewart	1851–1897	died here
Arthur M. Chisholm	1856–1902	died here
James Francis McGrath	1859–1902	died here
Clarence Dunlop Mackinnon	1868–1937	born here
Harry Judson Crowe	1868–1928	born here
Daniel Isaac Vernon Eaton	1869–1917	born here
Francis J. Fitzgerald	1869–1911	born here
Agnes Sime Baxter	1870–1917	born here
Édouard-Alfred Le Blanc	1870–1935	born here
George Dixon	1870–1908	born here
Lewis Piers Fairbanks	1870–1940	born here
Gilbert Lafayette Foster	1871–1940	born here
William Lawson Grant	1872–1935	born here
William Francis O’Connor	1873–1940	born here
Wellington Ney States	1874–1927	born here
Colin Campbell McKay	1876–1939	born here
George Frederick Pearson	1876–1938	born here
James Robinson Johnston	1876–1915	born here
James Alexander Ross Kinney	1879–1940	born here

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 3,598 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS009002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS033002 — 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). "Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/halifax-ward-quartier-no-2-ns009002-1881/.