Milton, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Milton was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,143. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3314512. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.100°N, 64.815°W.

Population

In 1881, Milton had a population of 1,143: 577 male and 566 female residents.

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, Milton shared boundaries with:

• Brooklyn
• Greenfield
• Hunt Point
• Local District No. 1
• Mill, VL
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Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 47 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,143 total population, 577 males, 566 females, 400 married persons, 224 families, 200 married females, 200 married males, 45 widowed persons, 33 widowed females, 12 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 698 single persons under 18, 365 single males under 18, 333 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 216 inhabited houses, 216 occupied houses, 25 uninhabited houses, 1 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 6,128 bushels of potatoes, 1,204 bushels of other root crops, 641 tons of hay, 618 acres of hay crops, 567 bushels of turnips, 194 bushels of peas and beans, 157 bushels of oats, 35 bushels of barley, 34 bushels of corn, 32 acres of potatoes, 32 bushels of spring wheat, 12 bushels of rye, 6 bushels of buckwheat, 2 acres of wheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 123 gallons of fish oil, 97 fathoms of fishing nets, 73 quintals of cod, 50 quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock, 42 barrels of gaspareaux, 26 barrels of herring or alewives, 7 barrels of eels, 5 barrels of mackerel, 4 barrels of other fish, 4 barrels of salmon, 3 shoremen, 2 men on fishing boats, 1 barrels of halibut, 1 barrels of trout, 1 fishing boats. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 2 barrels of whitefish — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 1 person connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,143 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: NS012005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS017008 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3314512
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton,_Nova_Scotia
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_(Nouvelle-%C3%89cosse)

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). "Milton, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/milton-ns012005-1881/.