Kentville, T-V, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Kentville, T-V was a town in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,125. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q992432. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.964°N, 64.515°W.

Population

In 1881, Kentville, T-V had a population of 2,125: 1,051 male and 1,074 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, Kentville, T-V shared boundaries with:

• Berwick
• Canard
• Centreville
• Dalhousie
• Gaspereau
• Lakeville
• New Ross
• Windsor Forks
• Wolfville

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 41 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 2,125 total population, 1,074 females, 1,051 males, 676 married persons, 415 families, 341 married females, 335 married males, 89 widowed persons, 68 widowed females, 21 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,360 single persons under 18, 695 single males under 18, 665 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 393 occupied houses, 392 inhabited houses, 7 uninhabited houses, 3 houses under construction, 1 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 104,682 bushels of potatoes, 12,548 bushels of turnips, 8,435 bushels of oats, 4,353 bushels of spring wheat, 4,033 tons of hay, 3,759 acres of hay crops, 2,505 bushels of other root crops, 1,786 bushels of buckwheat, 721 acres of potatoes, 670 bushels of rye, 492 bushels of winter wheat, 411 bushels of corn, 342 acres of wheat, 337 bushels of peas and beans, 235 bushels of barley, 6 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 1,120 fathoms of fishing nets, 19 men on fishing boats, 10 barrels of eels, 6 barrels of salmon, 6 fishing boats, 5 barrels of trout. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 180 barrels of shad — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 2 people connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 2,125 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: NS017006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS014016 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q992432
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentville
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentville

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). "Kentville, T-V, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/kentville-t-v-ns017006-1881/.