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Year: 1881  |  Province: Nova Scotia  |  County: Queen's

Local District No. 1, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Local District No. 1 was a census subdivision in Queen's County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,387. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.038°N, 64.744°W.

Population

In 1881, Local District No. 1 had a population of 1,387: 659 male and 728 female residents. Population density was 173.6 people per square mile.

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

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Local District No. 1 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 92 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)
VariableValue
FAM NO271
Number of families271
Number of females728
Number of males659
Number of married females250
Number of married males238
Number of married persons488
Number of widowed females59
Number of widowed males21
Number of widowed persons80
POP TOT1,387
Total population1,387
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18419
Number of single males under 18400
Number of single persons under 18819
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
VariableValue
Number of houses under construction5
Number of inhabited houses251
Number of occupied houses251
Number of uninhabited houses19
Agriculture (26 variables)
VariableValue
Acres of hay crops349
Acres of potatoes62
Acres of wheat6
BAR BU628
Bushels of barley produced in the past year628
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year32
Bushels of corn produced in the past year25
Bushels of oats produced in the past year254
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year875
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year133
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year10,726
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year73
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year714
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year15
BWT BU32
CRN BU25
HAY AC349
HAY TONS553
OAT BU254
PEA AND BEN BU133
POT AC62
POT BU10,726
Tons of hay produced in the past year553
WHT AC6
WHT SP BU73
WHT WTR BU15
Fisheries (14 variables)
VariableValue
Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year7
Barrels of halibut produced in the past year1
Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year1,713
Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year1,232
Barrels of salmon produced in the past year2
Fathoms of fishing nets4,571
Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year1,161
Number of fishing boats74
Number of fishing vessels4
Number of men on fishing boats101
Number of men on fishing vessels25
Number of shoremen18
Quintals of cod produced in the past year2,938
Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year289
Other recorded variables (33 variables)
VariableValue
BBL HERR OR ALE1,713
BOAT MEN Q101
BOATS FOR FISH74
C UNMD F419
C UNMD M400
C UNMD TOT819
CD NAMEQueen's
COD DX K2,938
D OCC251
FEMALE728
GAL FISH OIL1,161
GSP XB Q7
H CON5
H INHAB251
H UNINH19
HAD DX K289
HAL XB Q1
MALE659
MCK XB Q1,232
MD F250
MD M238
MD TOT488
NET XX F4,571
NUMBER CD12
OTHR ROOT BU875
SHOREMEN XX Q18
SLM XB Q2
TUR BU714
VESSEL MEN Q25
VESSEL XX Q4
WID F59
WID M21
WID TOT80

Identifiers

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). "Local District No. 1, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/local-district-no-1-ns012001-1881/.