Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2, Nova Scotia (1901 census)

Name: Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (1901)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 7,440. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.641°N, 63.586°W.

Population

In 1901, Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 had a population of 7,440: 3,323 male and 4,117 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 1901

In the 1901 census, Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1901

The 1901 census recorded 12 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 2 categories.

Population & families (1901). This community's record includes 7,440 total population, 4,117 females, 3,323 males, 2,546 single females, 2,043 single males, 1,467 families, 1,192 married females, 1,185 married males, 379 widowed females, 92 widowed males, 3 divorced males. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Buildings & housing (1901). This community's record includes 1,135 houses. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 41 people connected to this place who were alive in 1901, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
William Chamberlain Silver	1814–1903	died here
William Johnston Almon	1816–1901	died here
James Ratchford Dewolf	1818–1901	died here
William Jones Stairs	1819–1906	died here
A. G. (Alfred Gilpin) Jones	1824–1906	died here
Henry Frederick Busch	1826–1902	died here
Charles Macdonald	1828–1901	died here
John Taylor Wood Confederate Navy officer (1830-1904)	1830–1904	died here
John Lathern	1831–1905	died here
Isabella Forrest	1832–1905	died here
Isaac Sallis	1833–1904	died here
Mary Ann Maguire	1837–1905	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
John Thomas Bulmer	1845–1901	died here
John Naylor	1847–1906	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
George Fisher Chipman	1882–1935	born here

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS033002 — 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 1901 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 (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/halifax-ward-quartier-no-2-ns033002-1901/.