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Year: 1881  |  Province: Nova Scotia

Middle Londonderry, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Middle Londonderry was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 3,173. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.466°N, 63.605°W.

Population

In 1881, Middle Londonderry had a population of 3,173: 1,645 male and 1,528 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18813,173
18911,249
19011,015
1911961
1921917

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, Middle Londonderry shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 33 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 3,173 total population, 1,645 males, 1,528 females, 1,015 married persons, 600 families, 512 married males, 503 married females, 98 widowed persons, 71 widowed females, 27 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 2,060 single persons under 18, 1,106 single males under 18, 954 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 555 inhabited houses, 555 occupied houses, 15 uninhabited houses, 6 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 42,106 bushels of potatoes, 7,634 bushels of oats, 5,628 bushels of turnips, 4,454 tons of hay, 3,738 bushels of buckwheat, 3,356 bushels of spring wheat, 2,366 acres of hay crops, 2,133 bushels of other root crops, 741 bushels of barley, 273 bushels of winter wheat, 254 acres of potatoes, 237 acres of wheat, 175 bushels of peas and beans, 50 bushels of rye, 4 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 1 bushels of corn. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 3,173 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

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). "Middle Londonderry, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/middle-londonderry-ns019004-1881/.