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Province: Nova Scotia  |  Years recorded: 1871–1901

Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2, Nova Scotia (1871–1901)

Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in 4 censuses between 1871 and 1901. Population grew substantially across the period (from 3,320 in 1871 to 7,440 in 1901).

Historical lineage

Ancestor places

Population trajectory across census years

Census yearPopulationPage
18713,320View 1871 detail →
18813,598View 1881 detail →
18913,672View 1891 detail →
19017,440View 1901 detail →

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 102 people connected to this place across the 1851–1921 period, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry; the connection tag indicates whether the documented event was a birth, death, or burial at this place.

NameLifespanConnection
Enos Collins1774–1871died here
John G. (John George) Marshall1786–1880died here
James Walton Nutting1787–1870died here
Alexander Keith Canadian politician1795–1873died here
John Sparrow Thompson1795–1867died here
Mather Byles Almon1796–1871died here
John William Dering Gray1797–1868died here
William Bullock1797–1874died here
George King1798–1867died here
Sir William Young1799–1887died here
Andrew MacKinlay1800–1867died here
Edward Kenny1800–1891died here
Clement Horton Belcher1801–1869died here
William Pryor1801–1884died here
Frederick William Morris1802–1867died here
George McCawley1802–1878died here
Matthew Richey1803–1883died here
Martin Isaac Wilkins1804–1881died here
Mary Christianne Paul1804–1886died here
John Pryor1805–1892died here
Daniel Cronan1807–1892died here
James Spike1807–1879died here
Henry Pryor1808–1892died here
John William Ritchie1808–1890died here
William Cunnabell1808–1868died here
Thomas B. Akins1809–1891died here
William Gossip1809–1889died here
John Tobin1810–1869died here
William O'Grady Haly1810–1878died here
Andrew Downs1811–1892died here
George Elkana Morton1811–1892died here
William Hunter Odell1811–1891died here
William Lyall1811–1890died here
Hugh William Hoyles1814–1888died here
Thomas Louis Connolly1814–1876died here
William Chamberlain Silver1814–1903died here
Patrick Power1815–1881died here
Constant Garnier1816–1894died here
Jeremiah Northup1816–1879died here
Samuel Leonard Shannon1816–1895died here
William Johnston Almon1816–1901died here
David Honeyman1817–1889died here
Susanna Lucy Anne Haliburton1817–1899died here
Duncan Campbell1818–1886died here
James Ratchford Dewolf1818–1901died here
Michael Septimus Brown1818–1886died here
Isabella Binney Cogswell1819–1874died here
William Jones Stairs1819–1906died here
William Church Moir1822–1896died here
A. G. (Alfred Gilpin) Jones1824–1906died here
Archibald Woodbury McLelan1824–1890died here
Edmund Mortimer McDonald1825–1874died here
John Willis1825–1876died here
Henry Frederick Busch1826–1902died here
Henry William Smith1826–1890died here
Peter Stevens Hamilton1826–1893died here
George Lawson1827–1895died here
Charles Macdonald1828–1901died here
Mary Jane Katzmann1828–1890died here
John Taylor Wood Confederate Navy officer (1830-1904)1830–1904died here
Otto Schwartz Weeks1830–1892died here
John Daniel O’Connell O’Brien1831–1891died here
John Lathern1831–1905died here
Isabella Forrest1832–1905died here
Isaac Sallis1833–1904died here
James De Mille1833–1880died here
James Scott Hutton1833–1891died here
Michael Joseph Power1834–1895died here
Mary Ann Maguire1837–1905died here
Emil Vossnack1839–1885died here
Arthur C. Lessel1840–1895died here
Charlotte Anne Geddie1840–1906died here
Lucy Anne Rogers Butler1841–1906died here
Peter Evander McKerrow1841–1906died here
Edward Farrell1842–1901died here
Cornelius O'Brien1843–1906died here
David Hunter Duncan1843–1903died here
James Charles Philip Dumaresq1844–1906died here
Henry Dugwell Blackadar1845–1901died here
Joanna Harrington1845–1895died here
John Thomas Bulmer1845–1901died here
John Naylor1847–1906died here
Donald Alexander Stewart1851–1897died here
Arthur M. Chisholm1856–1902died here
James Francis McGrath1859–1902died here
Clarence Dunlop Mackinnon1868–1937born here
Harry Judson Crowe1868–1928born here
Daniel Isaac Vernon Eaton1869–1917born here
Francis J. Fitzgerald1869–1911born here
Agnes Sime Baxter1870–1917born here
Édouard-Alfred Le Blanc1870–1935born here
George Dixon1870–1908born here
Lewis Piers Fairbanks1870–1940born here
Gilbert Lafayette Foster1871–1940born here
William Lawson Grant1872–1935born here
William Francis O’Connor1873–1940born here
Wellington Ney States1874–1927born here
Colin Campbell McKay1876–1939born here
George Frederick Pearson1876–1938born here
James Robinson Johnston1876–1915born here
James Alexander Ross Kinney1879–1940born here
George Fisher Chipman1882–1935born here

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Sources

Census tabulations from the 1851–1921 Census of Canada series, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project. Each year's detail page (linked above) cites the specific source table.