North-East Margaree, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Name: North-East Margaree (1881)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

North-East Margaree was a township in Inverness County, Nova Scotia (Canada West / Ontario), recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,451. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.397°N, 60.955°W.

Population

In 1881, North-East Margaree had a population of 1,451: 753 male and 698 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	1,476
1881	1,451

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, North-East Margaree shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 72 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	215
Number of families	215
Number of females	698
Number of males	753
Number of married females	203
Number of married males	203
Number of married persons	406
Number of widowed females	40
Number of widowed males	13
Number of widowed persons	53
POP TOT	1,451
Total population	1,451

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	455
Number of single males under 18	537
Number of single persons under 18	992

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	2
Number of inhabited houses	215
Number of occupied houses	215
Number of uninhabited houses	4

Agriculture (25 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	3,101
Acres of potatoes	278
Acres of wheat	146
BAR BU	339
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	339
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	764
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	30
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	4
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	11,658
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	130
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	55
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	32,031
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	2,167
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	3,313
BWT BU	764
CRN BU	4
HAY AC	3,101
HAY TONS	4,235
OAT BU	11,658
PEA AND BEN BU	55
POT AC	278
POT BU	32,031
Tons of hay produced in the past year	4,235
WHT AC	146
WHT SP BU	2,167

Fisheries (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year	10
Barrels of salmon produced in the past year	2
Barrels of trout produced in the past year	6
Quintals of fascines fish produced in the past year	1

Other recorded variables (24 variables)

Variable	Value
C UNMD F	455
C UNMD M	537
C UNMD TOT	992
CD NAME	Inverness
D OCC	215
FASCINE FISH Q	1
FEMALE	698
GRA BU	30
GSP XB Q	10
H CON	2
H INHAB	215
H UNINH	4
MALE	753
MD F	203
MD M	203
MD TOT	406
NUMBER CD	4
OTHR ROOT BU	130
SLM XB Q	2
TRT XB Q	6
TUR BU	3,313
WID F	40
WID M	13
WID TOT	53

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS004014 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS004014_1871 — 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). "North-East Margaree, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/north-east-margaree-ns004014-1881/.