Local District No. 3, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
Local District No. 3 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 470. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.979°N, 64.787°W.
Population
In 1881, Local District No. 3 had a population of 470: 231 male and 239 female residents.
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
- In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Liverpool, T-V, 1871 (21.8% share).
Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881
In the 1881 census, Local District No. 3 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 42 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.
Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 470 total population, 239 females, 231 males, 160 married persons, 83 families, 80 married females, 80 married males, 22 widowed persons, 18 widowed females, 4 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 288 single persons under 18, 147 single males under 18, 141 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 83 inhabited houses, 83 occupied houses, 4 uninhabited houses, 3 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 6,153 bushels of potatoes, 761 bushels of turnips, 450 bushels of barley, 418 acres of hay crops, 418 tons of hay, 346 bushels of oats, 87 bushels of other root crops, 57 acres of potatoes, 54 bushels of peas and beans, 25 bushels of rye, 14 bushels of buckwheat, 7 bushels of spring wheat, 1 acres of wheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)
Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 2,134 quintals of cod, 1,545 fathoms of fishing nets, 882 gallons of fish oil, 434 barrels of herring or alewives, 220 quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock, 58 men on fishing boats, 35 fishing boats, 18 men on fishing vessels, 12 barrels of mackerel, 3 fishing vessels, 2 barrels of halibut. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 25,397 pounds of lobster canned — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.
Residents in 1881
The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 470 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:
NS012003— year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file - Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS012003— 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). "Local District No. 3, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/local-district-no-3-ns012003-1881/.