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

Name: Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 (1871)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 3,320. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.642°N, 63.592°W.

Population

In 1871, Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 had a population of 3,320: 1,548 male and 1,772 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).

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.

Earlier boundary forms

In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in NO DATA, 1861 (0.0% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, Halifax, Ward—Quartier No. 2 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 18 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 3,320 total population, 1,772 females, 1,548 males, 1,012 married persons, 678 families, 509 married males, 503 married females, 205 widowed persons, 160 widowed females, 45 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 2,103 single persons under 18, 1,109 single females under 18, 994 single males under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 436 inhabited houses, 436 occupied houses, 30 uninhabited houses, 4 houses under construction. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 619 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 85 people connected to this place who were alive in 1871, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Enos Collins	1774–1871	died here
John G. (John George) Marshall	1786–1880	died here
Alexander Keith Canadian politician	1795–1873	died here
Mather Byles Almon	1796–1871	died here
William Bullock	1797–1874	died here
Sir William Young	1799–1887	died here
Edward Kenny	1800–1891	died here
William Pryor	1801–1884	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
Thomas B. Akins	1809–1891	died here
William Gossip	1809–1889	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
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
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 De Mille	1833–1880	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

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS196002 — 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 1871 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 (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/halifax-ward-quartier-no-2-ns196002-1871/.