Lake Ainslie W-O, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Name: Lake Ainslie W-O (1881)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Lake Ainslie W-O was a census subdivision in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 430. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.082°N, 61.210°W.

Population

In 1881, Lake Ainslie W-O had a population of 430: 195 male and 235 female residents. Population density was 7.3 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	397
1881	430
1891	417
1901	391
1911	296
1921	254

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, Lake Ainslie W-O shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 66 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	62
Number of families	62
Number of females	235
Number of males	195
Number of married females	51
Number of married males	51
Number of married persons	103
Number of widowed females	13
Number of widowed males	4
Number of widowed persons	17
POP TOT	430
Total population	430

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	171
Number of single males under 18	139
Number of single persons under 18	310

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	2
Number of inhabited houses	62
Number of occupied houses	62
Number of uninhabited houses	1

Agriculture (20 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	812
Acres of potatoes	78
Acres of wheat	30
BAR BU	474
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	474
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	505
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	9
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	7,138
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	5,334
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	325
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	367
BWT BU	505
HAY AC	812
HAY TONS	835
OAT BU	7,138
POT AC	78
POT BU	5,334
Tons of hay produced in the past year	835
WHT AC	30
WHT SP BU	325

Fisheries (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year	4
Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year	1
Fathoms of fishing nets	74
Quintals of cod produced in the past year	4

Other recorded variables (23 variables)

Variable	Value
C UNMD F	171
C UNMD M	139
C UNMD TOT	310
CD NAME	Inverness
COD DX K	4
D OCC	62
FEMALE	235
GRA BU	9
GSP XB Q	4
H CON	2
H INHAB	62
H UNINH	1
MALE	195
MCK XB Q	1
MD F	51
MD M	51
MD TOT	103
NET XX F	74
NUMBER CD	4
TUR BU	367
WID F	13
WID M	4
WID TOT	17

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS004009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS013008_1871 — 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). "Lake Ainslie W-O, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/lake-ainslie-w-o-ns004009-1881/.