Noel, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Noel was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,218. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.256°N, 63.763°W.

Population

In 1881, Noel had a population of 1,218: 635 male and 583 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).

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

• In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Noel, 1871 (33.1% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Noel shared boundaries with:

• Gore
• Maitland
• Walton

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 43 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,218 total population, 635 males, 583 females, 377 married persons, 218 families, 189 married males, 188 married females, 40 widowed persons, 24 widowed females, 16 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 801 single persons under 18, 430 single males under 18, 371 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 217 occupied houses, 216 inhabited houses, 3 houses under construction, 2 uninhabited houses, 1 dwellings that are temporary vessels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 28,451 bushels of potatoes, 6,715 bushels of turnips, 6,245 bushels of oats, 5,005 bushels of spring wheat, 2,892 tons of hay, 2,498 acres of hay crops, 1,201 bushels of other root crops, 918 bushels of barley, 863 bushels of buckwheat, 294 acres of wheat, 165 acres of potatoes, 77 bushels of peas and beans, 27 bushels of rye, 25 bushels of winter wheat, 23 bushels of corn, 18 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 850 fathoms of fishing nets, 27 quintals of fascines fish, 6 barrels of herring or alewives, 5 quintals of cod, 5 quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock, 4 men on fishing boats, 3 fishing boats, 1 shoremen. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 245 barrels of shad — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,218 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: NS018013 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS012008 — 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). "Noel, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/noel-ns018013-1881/.