Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2, Nova Scotia (1871–1911)
Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in 5 censuses between 1871 and 1911. Population grew substantially across the period (from 3,320 in 1871 to 7,686 in 1911).
Historical lineage
Ancestor places
- split off from NO DATA in 1871
Descendant places
- merged into Halifax, C in 1921
Population trajectory across census years
| Census year | Population | Page |
|---|---|---|
| 1871 | 3,320 | View 1871 detail → |
| 1881 | 3,598 | View 1881 detail → |
| 1891 | 3,672 | View 1891 detail → |
| 1901 | 7,440 | View 1901 detail → |
| 1911 | 7,686 | View 1911 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 121 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.
| Name | Lifespan | Connection |
|---|---|---|
| Enos Collins | 1774–1871 | died here |
| John G. (John George) Marshall | 1786–1880 | died here |
| James Walton Nutting | 1787–1870 | died here |
| Alexander Keith Canadian politician | 1795–1873 | died here |
| John Sparrow Thompson | 1795–1867 | died here |
| Mather Byles Almon | 1796–1871 | died here |
| John William Dering Gray | 1797–1868 | died here |
| William Bullock | 1797–1874 | died here |
| George King | 1798–1867 | died here |
| Sir William Young | 1799–1887 | died here |
| Andrew MacKinlay | 1800–1867 | died here |
| Edward Kenny | 1800–1891 | died here |
| Clement Horton Belcher | 1801–1869 | died here |
| William Pryor | 1801–1884 | died here |
| Frederick William Morris | 1802–1867 | died here |
| George McCawley | 1802–1878 | 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 |
| James Spike | 1807–1879 | died here |
| Henry Pryor | 1808–1892 | died here |
| John William Ritchie | 1808–1890 | died here |
| William Cunnabell | 1808–1868 | died here |
| Thomas B. Akins | 1809–1891 | died here |
| William Gossip | 1809–1889 | died here |
| John Tobin | 1810–1869 | died here |
| William O'Grady Haly | 1810–1878 | 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 |
| Thomas Louis Connolly | 1814–1876 | died here |
| William Chamberlain Silver | 1814–1903 | died here |
| Patrick Power | 1815–1881 | died here |
| Constant Garnier | 1816–1894 | died here |
| Jeremiah Northup | 1816–1879 | 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 |
| Isabella Binney Cogswell | 1819–1874 | died here |
| William Jones Stairs | 1819–1906 | died here |
| Daniel Mcneill Parker | 1822–1907 | 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 |
| Edmund Mortimer McDonald | 1825–1874 | died here |
| John Willis | 1825–1876 | 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 |
| Sandford Fleming | 1827–1915 | died here |
| Charles Macdonald | 1828–1901 | died here |
| James McDonald | 1828–1912 | died here |
| Mary Jane Katzmann | 1828–1890 | died here |
| Louisa Ann Johnson | 1829–1911 | 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 |
| Robert Murray | 1832–1910 | died here |
| Isaac Sallis | 1833–1904 | died here |
| James De Mille | 1833–1880 | died here |
| James Scott Hutton | 1833–1891 | died here |
| Thomas Edward Kenny | 1833–1908 | died here |
| Michael Joseph Power | 1834–1895 | died here |
| Robert Weatherbe | 1834–1915 | died here |
| William Johnson Ancient | 1836–1908 | died here |
| Mary Ann Maguire | 1837–1905 | died here |
| Michael J. O’Brien | 1837–1912 | died here |
| David MacKeen | 1839–1916 | died here |
| Emil Vossnack | 1839–1885 | died here |
| Arthur C. Lessel | 1840–1895 | died here |
| Charlotte Anne Geddie | 1840–1906 | died here |
| Lewis A. Archibald | 1840–1913 | 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 |
| John James Stewart | 1844–1907 | died here |
| Henry Dugwell Blackadar | 1845–1901 | died here |
| Joanna Harrington | 1845–1895 | died here |
| John Thomas Bulmer | 1845–1901 | died here |
| Dominick Healey | 1846–1911 | died here |
| Jane Bruce | 1847–1907 | died here |
| John Naylor | 1847–1906 | died here |
| Marie-Elmire Cadotte | 1848–1909 | died here |
| Edwin Gilpin | 1850–1907 | died here |
| Donald Alexander Stewart | 1851–1897 | died here |
| William Critchlow Harris | 1854–1913 | died here |
| Benjamin Franklin Pearson | 1855–1912 | 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 and died here |
| James Alexander Ross Kinney | 1879–1940 | born here |
| George Fisher Chipman | 1882–1935 | born here |
| Eric Mackay Yeoman | 1885–1909 | died here |
Identifiers
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS045044— assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap - Wikidata: not yet grounded.
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.