Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2, Nova Scotia (1911 census)

Name: Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (1911)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 7,686. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.641°N, 63.586°W.

Population

In 1911, Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 had a population of 7,686: 3,469 male and 4,217 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	3,320
1881	3,598
1891	3,672
1901	7,440
1911	7,686

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.

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD became part of Halifax, C, 1921 (10.5% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1911

In the 1911 census, Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 48 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 7,686 total population, 4,217 females in the population, 3,469 males in the population, 2,572 single (never-married) females, 2,035 single (never-married) males, 1,517 families, 1,340 married males, 1,317 married females, 307 widowed females, 72 widowed males, 21 males with marital status not given, 19 females with marital status not given, 2 legally separated females, 1 divorced males. 7,440 population in the previous census (1901 reference column included in 1911 V1T1). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Ethnic origin (1911). This community's record includes 3,050 persons of British origin (English), 2,267 persons of British origin (Irish), 1,236 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 659 persons of French origin, 300 persons of German origin, 46 persons of Scandinavian origin, 12 persons of Chinese origin, 9 persons of Italian origin, 5 persons of Belgian origin, 4 persons of British origin (other), 2 persons of Austro-Hungarian origin, 2 persons of Greek origin, 2 persons of Polish origin, 1 persons of Dutch origin, 1 persons of Russian origin, 1 persons of Swiss origin. 10 persons recorded under the 1911 official census category "Jewish" (origin/ethnicity, distinct from the V2T2 religion category "Jews"). 10 persons recorded under the 1911/1921 official census category "Negro"; refers to people of African descent. Term is now considered offensive and is preserved here only as the historical source label. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

Religion (1911). This community's record includes 3,886 Roman Catholics, 1,883 Anglicans (Church of England), 827 Presbyterians, 617 Methodists, 362 Baptists, 69 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified, 48 adherents of various sects (residual category in 1911), 16 Lutherans, 9 Jews, 5 Protestants (general / no denomination specified), 4 Congregationalists, 4 Salvation Army adherents, 2 Greek (Orthodox) Church adherents, 1 Friends (Quakers). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2; V2T7.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 1,272 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 26 people connected to this place who were alive in 1911, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Sandford Fleming	1827–1915	died here
James McDonald	1828–1912	died here
Louisa Ann Johnson	1829–1911	died here
Robert Weatherbe	1834–1915	died here
Michael J. O’Brien	1837–1912	died here
David MacKeen	1839–1916	died here
Lewis A. Archibald	1840–1913	died here
Dominick Healey	1846–1911	died here
William Critchlow Harris	1854–1913	died here
Benjamin Franklin Pearson	1855–1912	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
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 and died here
James Alexander Ross Kinney	1879–1940	born here
George Fisher Chipman	1882–1935	born here

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS045044 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS045044 — 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 1911 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 (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/halifax-ward-quartier-no-2-ns045044-1911/.