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Year: 1871  |  Province: Nova Scotia

Monro’s Point, St. Ann’s, Nova Scotia (1871 census)

Monro’s Point, St. Ann’s was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 1,679. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.223°N, 60.607°W.

Population

In 1871, Monro’s Point, St. Ann’s had a population of 1,679: 820 male and 859 female residents. Population density was 39.1 people per square mile.

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.

Earlier boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, Monro’s Point, St. Ann’s shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 50 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (10 variables)
VariableValue
Number of families246
Number of females859
Number of males820
Number of married females228
Number of married males233
Number of married persons461
Number of widowed females39
Number of widowed males24
Number of widowed persons63
Total population1,679
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18592
Number of single males under 18563
Number of single persons under 181,155
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
VariableValue
Number of houses under construction1
Number of inhabited houses243
Number of occupied houses243
Number of uninhabited houses2
Agriculture (9 variables)
VariableValue
BAR BU1,368
HAY AC824
HAY TONS1,034
OAT BU15,622
POT AC346
POT BU27,677
Total area (acres)121,000
WHT SP BU397
WHT WTR BU31
Other recorded variables (24 variables)
VariableValue
ACRES33
AREA121,000
BEING BUILT1
CD204
CSD8
FAMILIES246
FEMALE859
GRA BU14
HOUSES OCCUPIED243
INHABITED243
MALE820
MARRIED F228
MARRIED M233
MARRIED TOTAL461
POPULATION1,679
ROOT BU10
SINGLE F592
SINGLE M563
SINGLE TOTAL1,155
TUR BU44
UNINHABITED2
WIDOWED F39
WIDOWED M24
WIDOWED TOTAL63

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1871 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). "Monro’s Point, St. Ann’s, Nova Scotia (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/monro-s-point-st-ann-s-ns204008-1871/.