Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Shelburne
Louis Head, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
Louis Head was a census subdivision in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 988. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.803°N, 65.020°W.
Population
In 1881, Louis Head had a population of 988: 522 male and 466 female residents.
Population trajectory across census years
| Year | Population |
|---|
| 1871 | 917 |
| 1881 | 988 |
| 1891 | 1,000 |
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, Louis Head shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 98 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 180 |
| Number of families | 180 |
| Number of females | 466 |
| Number of males | 522 |
| Number of married females | 161 |
| Number of married males | 160 |
| Number of married persons | 321 |
| Number of widowed females | 35 |
| Number of widowed males | 19 |
| Number of widowed persons | 54 |
| POP TOT | 988 |
| Total population | 988 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 270 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 343 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 613 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 5 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 178 |
| Number of occupied houses | 178 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 2 |
Agriculture (28 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 749 |
| Acres of potatoes | 195 |
| Acres of wheat | 1 |
| BAR BU | 699 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 699 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 11 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 45 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 382 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 906 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 188 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 13,877 |
| Bushels of rye produced in the past year | 4 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 16 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 1,085 |
| Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year | 3 |
| BWT BU | 11 |
| CRN BU | 45 |
| HAY AC | 749 |
| HAY TONS | 1,203 |
| OAT BU | 382 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 188 |
| POT AC | 195 |
| POT BU | 13,877 |
| RYE BU | 4 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,203 |
| WHT AC | 1 |
| WHT SP BU | 16 |
| WHT WTR BU | 3 |
Fisheries (16 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 9 |
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 4 |
| Barrels of halibut produced in the past year | 28 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 629 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 18 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 1,693 |
| Barrels of trout produced in the past year | 3 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 3,038 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 3,763 |
| Number of fishing boats | 124 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 12 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 169 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 95 |
| Number of shoremen | 29 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 10,144 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 307 |
Other recorded variables (35 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 629 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 169 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 124 |
| C UNMD F | 270 |
| C UNMD M | 343 |
| C UNMD TOT | 613 |
| CD NAME | Shelburne |
| COD DX K | 10,144 |
| D OCC | 178 |
| EEL XB Q | 9 |
| FEMALE | 466 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 3,763 |
| GSP XB Q | 4 |
| H CON | 5 |
| H INHAB | 178 |
| H UNINH | 2 |
| HAD DX K | 307 |
| HAL XB Q | 28 |
| MALE | 522 |
| MCK XB Q | 18 |
| MD F | 161 |
| MD M | 160 |
| MD TOT | 321 |
| NET XX F | 3,038 |
| NUMBER CD | 13 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 1,693 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 906 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 29 |
| TRT XB Q | 3 |
| TUR BU | 1,085 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 95 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 12 |
| WID F | 35 |
| WID M | 19 |
| WID TOT | 54 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS013007 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS042009 — 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). "Louis Head, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/louis-head-ns013007-1881/.