Middle River, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Name: Middle River (1881)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Middle River was a census subdivision in Victoria County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 966. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.156°N, 60.912°W.

Population

In 1881, Middle River had a population of 966: 470 male and 496 female residents. Population density was 17.9 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	1,006
1881	966
1891	896
1901	745
1911	790
1921	527

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, Middle River shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 66 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	144
Number of families	144
Number of females	496
Number of males	470
Number of married females	127
Number of married males	127
Number of married persons	254
Number of widowed females	24
Number of widowed males	7
Number of widowed persons	31
POP TOT	966
Total population	966

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	345
Number of single males under 18	336
Number of single persons under 18	681

Buildings & housing (5 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties	2
Number of houses under construction	8
Number of inhabited houses	142
Number of occupied houses	144
Number of uninhabited houses	2

Agriculture (23 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	2,281
Acres of potatoes	151
Acres of wheat	74
BAR BU	364
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	364
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	147
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	36
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	14,757
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	5
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	2
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	18,260
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	631
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	1,163
BWT BU	147
HAY AC	2,281
HAY TONS	3,511
OAT BU	14,757
PEA AND BEN BU	2
POT AC	151
POT BU	18,260
Tons of hay produced in the past year	3,511
WHT AC	74
WHT SP BU	631

Fisheries (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Barrels of trout produced in the past year	2

Other recorded variables (22 variables)

Variable	Value
C UNMD F	345
C UNMD M	336
C UNMD TOT	681
CD NAME	Victoria
D OCC	144
FEMALE	496
GRA BU	36
H CON	8
H INHAB	142
H UNINH	2
MALE	470
MD F	127
MD M	127
MD TOT	254
NUMBER CD	5
OTHR ROOT BU	5
SHAN	2
TRT XB Q	2
TUR BU	1,163
WID F	24
WID M	7
WID TOT	31

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS005004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS020013 — 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). "Middle River, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/middle-river-ns005004-1881/.