Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Halifax (County-Comté)
Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
Lawrencetown was a census subdivision in Halifax (County-Comté) County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 521. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.681°N, 63.375°W.
Population
In 1881, Lawrencetown had a population of 521: 288 male and 233 female residents. Population density was 14.6 people per square mile.
Population trajectory across census years
| Year | Population |
|---|
| 1871 | 504 |
| 1881 | 521 |
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, Lawrencetown shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 90 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 92 |
| Number of families | 92 |
| Number of females | 233 |
| Number of males | 288 |
| Number of married females | 80 |
| Number of married males | 83 |
| Number of married persons | 163 |
| Number of widowed females | 8 |
| Number of widowed males | 7 |
| Number of widowed persons | 15 |
| POP TOT | 521 |
| Total population | 521 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 145 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 198 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 343 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 5 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 92 |
| Number of occupied houses | 92 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 8 |
Agriculture (24 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 937 |
| Acres of potatoes | 72 |
| Acres of wheat | 16 |
| BAR BU | 888 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 888 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 35 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 1 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 1,260 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 16,142 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 271 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 11,118 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 332 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 1,399 |
| BWT BU | 35 |
| CRN BU | 1 |
| HAY AC | 937 |
| HAY TONS | 1,038 |
| OAT BU | 1,260 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 271 |
| POT AC | 72 |
| POT BU | 11,118 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,038 |
| WHT AC | 16 |
| WHT SP BU | 332 |
Fisheries (14 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 355 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 453 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 144 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 2 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 10,358 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 406 |
| Number of fishing boats | 65 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 2 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 84 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 5 |
| Number of shoremen | 3 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 414 |
| Quintals of fascines fish produced in the past year | 1 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 47 |
Other recorded variables (33 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 453 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 84 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 65 |
| C UNMD F | 145 |
| C UNMD M | 198 |
| C UNMD TOT | 343 |
| CD NAME | Halifax (County-Comté) |
| COD DX K | 414 |
| D OCC | 92 |
| FASCINE FISH Q | 1 |
| FEMALE | 233 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 406 |
| GSP XB Q | 355 |
| H CON | 5 |
| H INHAB | 92 |
| H UNINH | 8 |
| HAD DX K | 47 |
| MALE | 288 |
| MCK XB Q | 144 |
| MD F | 80 |
| MD M | 83 |
| MD TOT | 163 |
| NET XX F | 10,358 |
| NUMBER CD | 10 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 16,142 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 3 |
| SLM XB Q | 2 |
| TUR BU | 1,399 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 5 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 2 |
| WID F | 8 |
| WID M | 7 |
| WID TOT | 15 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS010019 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS010019 — 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). "Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/lawrencetown-ns010019-1881/.