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Year: 1871  |  Province: Nova Scotia

Lake Ainslie E., Nova Scotia (1871 census)

Lake Ainslie E. was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 816. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.105°N, 61.092°W.

Population

In 1871, Lake Ainslie E. had a population of 816: 376 male and 440 female residents. Population density was 8.9 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1871816
1881742
1891772
1901621
1911517
1921472

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, Lake Ainslie E. shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 49 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (10 variables)
VariableValue
Number of families113
Number of females440
Number of males376
Number of married females97
Number of married males96
Number of married persons193
Number of widowed females26
Number of widowed males6
Number of widowed persons32
Total population816
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18317
Number of single males under 18274
Number of single persons under 18591
Buildings & housing (2 variables)
VariableValue
Number of inhabited houses113
Number of occupied houses113
Agriculture (11 variables)
VariableValue
BAR BU611
BWT BU206
CRN BU1
HAY AC745
HAY TONS614
OAT BU10,539
PEA BU5
POT AC180
POT BU11,993
Total area (acres)46,080
WHT SP BU119
Other recorded variables (23 variables)
VariableValue
ACRES17
AREA46,080
BEN BU1
CD203
CSD15
FAMILIES113
FEMALE440
GRA BU38
HOUSES OCCUPIED113
INHABITED113
MALE376
MARRIED F97
MARRIED M96
MARRIED TOTAL193
POPULATION816
ROOT BU7
SINGLE F317
SINGLE M274
SINGLE TOTAL591
TUR BU109
WIDOWED F26
WIDOWED M6
WIDOWED TOTAL32

Identifiers

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). "Lake Ainslie E., Nova Scotia (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/lake-ainslie-e-ns203015-1871/.