Local District No. 6, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Name: Local District No. 6 (1881)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Local District No. 6 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 633. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.072°N, 64.694°W.

Population

In 1881, Local District No. 6 had a population of 633: 314 male and 319 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 Bristol, 1871 (46.1% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Local District No. 6 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 633 total population, 319 females, 314 males, 237 married persons, 129 families, 120 married females, 117 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 374 single persons under 18, 193 single males under 18, 181 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 127 inhabited houses, 127 occupied houses, 11 uninhabited houses, 5 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 3,296 bushels of potatoes, 349 bushels of other root crops, 224 tons of hay, 161 acres of hay crops, 151 bushels of turnips, 118 bushels of barley, 109 bushels of peas and beans, 42 bushels of oats, 32 bushels of spring wheat, 14 acres of potatoes, 5 bushels of corn, 2 acres of wheat, 1 bushels of rye. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 1,672 quintals of cod, 1,400 fathoms of fishing nets, 1,110 gallons of fish oil, 279 quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock, 94 barrels of herring or alewives, 31 men on fishing boats, 24 men on fishing vessels, 21 fishing boats, 4 barrels of mackerel, 4 barrels of salmon, 2 barrels of gaspareaux, 2 fishing vessels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 633 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: NS012006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS012006 — 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. 6, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/local-district-no-6-ns012006-1881/.