Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Cape Breton
Hillside, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
Hillside was a census subdivision in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,030. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.024°N, 60.151°W.
Population
In 1881, Hillside had a population of 1,030: 506 male and 524 female residents. Population density was 13.9 people per square mile.
Population trajectory across census years
Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).
Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881
In the 1881 census, Hillside shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 94 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 187 |
| Number of families | 187 |
| Number of females | 524 |
| Number of males | 506 |
| Number of married females | 148 |
| Number of married males | 148 |
| Number of married persons | 296 |
| Number of widowed females | 35 |
| Number of widowed males | 16 |
| Number of widowed persons | 51 |
| POP TOT | 1,030 |
| Total population | 1,030 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 341 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 342 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 683 |
Buildings & housing (5 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties | 1 |
| Number of houses under construction | 10 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 166 |
| Number of occupied houses | 167 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 4 |
Agriculture (24 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 650 |
| Acres of potatoes | 235 |
| Acres of wheat | 5 |
| BAR BU | 39 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 39 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 132 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 1 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 6,383 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 13 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 7 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 21,827 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 156 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 817 |
| BWT BU | 132 |
| CRN BU | 1 |
| HAY AC | 650 |
| HAY TONS | 1,205 |
| OAT BU | 6,383 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 7 |
| POT AC | 235 |
| POT BU | 21,827 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,205 |
| WHT AC | 5 |
| WHT SP BU | 156 |
Fisheries (15 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 1 |
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 11 |
| Barrels of halibut produced in the past year | 4 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 152 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 30 |
| Barrels of oysters produced in the past year | 23 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 13 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 820 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 197 |
| Number of fishing boats | 30 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 1 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 33 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 3 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 737 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 21 |
Other recorded variables (35 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 152 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 33 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 30 |
| C UNMD F | 341 |
| C UNMD M | 342 |
| C UNMD TOT | 683 |
| CD NAME | Cape Breton |
| COD DX K | 737 |
| D OCC | 167 |
| EEL XB Q | 1 |
| FEMALE | 524 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 197 |
| GSP XB Q | 11 |
| H CON | 10 |
| H INHAB | 166 |
| H UNINH | 4 |
| HAD DX K | 21 |
| HAL XB Q | 4 |
| MALE | 506 |
| MCK XB Q | 30 |
| MD F | 148 |
| MD M | 148 |
| MD TOT | 296 |
| NET XX F | 820 |
| NUMBER CD | 6 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 13 |
| OYS XB Q | 23 |
| SHAN | 1 |
| SLM XB Q | 13 |
| TUR BU | 817 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 3 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 1 |
| WID F | 35 |
| WID M | 16 |
| WID TOT | 51 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS006018 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS006020 — 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 1881 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). "Hillside, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/hillside-ns006018-1881/.