Kempt, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Kempt was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,925. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.174°N, 64.078°W.

Population

In 1881, Kempt had a population of 1,925: 942 male and 983 female residents.

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, Kempt shared boundaries with:

• Scotch, Village
• Walton

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 45 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,925 total population, 983 females, 942 males, 650 married persons, 363 families, 325 married females, 325 married males, 76 widowed persons, 61 widowed females, 15 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,199 single persons under 18, 602 single males under 18, 597 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 362 occupied houses, 353 inhabited houses, 10 uninhabited houses, 7 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 5 houses under construction, 2 dwellings that are temporary vessels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 26,345 bushels of potatoes, 5,569 bushels of oats, 4,763 bushels of turnips, 3,746 bushels of spring wheat, 2,334 tons of hay, 1,990 acres of hay crops, 1,252 bushels of other root crops, 695 bushels of barley, 562 bushels of buckwheat, 222 acres of wheat, 208 bushels of peas and beans, 206 acres of potatoes, 161 bushels of rye, 58 bushels of corn, 13 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 223 fathoms of fishing nets, 189 barrels of herring or alewives, 45 barrels of other fish, 31 quintals of cod, 20 quintals of fascines fish, 10 men on fishing boats, 9 fishing boats, 4 barrels of gaspareaux, 1 barrels of mackerel, 1 quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 152 barrels of shad — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,925 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: NS018015 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS012005 — 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). "Kempt, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/kempt-ns018015-1881/.