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Year: 1881  |  Province: Nova Scotia

Lower Stewiacke, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Lower Stewiacke was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,577. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.159°N, 63.292°W.

Population

In 1881, Lower Stewiacke had a population of 1,577: 819 male and 758 female residents. Population density was 10.1 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18711,530
18811,577

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

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.

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Lower Stewiacke shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 67 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)
VariableValue
FAM NO290
Number of families290
Number of females758
Number of males819
Number of married females232
Number of married males234
Number of married persons466
Number of widowed females39
Number of widowed males33
Number of widowed persons72
POP TOT1,577
Total population1,577
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18487
Number of single males under 18552
Number of single persons under 181,039
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
VariableValue
Number of houses under construction2
Number of inhabited houses283
Number of occupied houses283
Number of uninhabited houses23
Agriculture (29 variables)
VariableValue
Acres of hay crops3,403
Acres of potatoes178
Acres of wheat296
BAR BU778
Bushels of barley produced in the past year778
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year2,166
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year22
Bushels of corn produced in the past year23
Bushels of oats produced in the past year8,299
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year9,639
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year177
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year27,972
Bushels of rye produced in the past year10
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year3,867
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year10,338
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year23
BWT BU2,166
CRN BU23
HAY AC3,403
HAY TONS4,819
OAT BU8,299
PEA AND BEN BU177
POT AC178
POT BU27,972
RYE BU10
Tons of hay produced in the past year4,819
WHT AC296
WHT SP BU3,867
WHT WTR BU23
Other recorded variables (19 variables)
VariableValue
C UNMD F487
C UNMD M552
C UNMD TOT1,039
D OCC283
FEMALE758
GRA BU22
H CON2
H INHAB283
H UNINH23
MALE819
MD F232
MD M234
MD TOT466
NUMBER CD19
OTHR ROOT BU9,639
TUR BU10,338
WID F39
WID M33
WID TOT72

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). "Lower Stewiacke, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/lower-stewiacke-ns019017-1881/.