Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Lunenburg
Mill Cove, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
Mill Cove was a census subdivision in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 539. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.584°N, 64.076°W.
Population
In 1881, Mill Cove had a population of 539: 286 male and 253 female residents. Population density was 16.6 people per square mile.
Population trajectory across census years
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, Mill Cove shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 76 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 93 |
| Number of families | 93 |
| Number of females | 253 |
| Number of males | 286 |
| Number of married females | 87 |
| Number of married males | 84 |
| Number of married persons | 171 |
| Number of widowed females | 10 |
| Number of widowed males | 8 |
| Number of widowed persons | 18 |
| POP TOT | 539 |
| Total population | 539 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 156 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 194 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 350 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 2 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 83 |
| Number of occupied houses | 83 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 5 |
Agriculture (22 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 91 |
| Acres of potatoes | 31 |
| Acres of wheat | 1 |
| BAR BU | 217 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 217 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 1 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 104 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 133 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 54 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 5,363 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 15 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 526 |
| BWT BU | 1 |
| HAY AC | 91 |
| HAY TONS | 108 |
| OAT BU | 104 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 54 |
| POT AC | 31 |
| POT BU | 5,363 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 108 |
| WHT AC | 1 |
| WHT SP BU | 15 |
Fisheries (8 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 142 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 2,044 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 12,849 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 277 |
| Number of fishing boats | 104 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 127 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 282 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 153 |
Other recorded variables (27 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 142 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 127 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 104 |
| C UNMD F | 156 |
| C UNMD M | 194 |
| C UNMD TOT | 350 |
| CD NAME | Lunenburg |
| COD DX K | 282 |
| D OCC | 83 |
| FEMALE | 253 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 277 |
| H CON | 2 |
| H INHAB | 83 |
| H UNINH | 5 |
| HAD DX K | 153 |
| MALE | 286 |
| MCK XB Q | 2,044 |
| MD F | 87 |
| MD M | 84 |
| MD TOT | 171 |
| NET XX F | 12,849 |
| NUMBER CD | 11 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 133 |
| TUR BU | 526 |
| WID F | 10 |
| WID M | 8 |
| WID TOT | 18 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS011012 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS015024 — 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). "Mill Cove, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/mill-cove-ns011012-1881/.