Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Inverness
North Mountain, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
North Mountain was a census subdivision in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 833. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.767°N, 61.164°W.
Population
In 1881, North Mountain had a population of 833: 402 male and 431 female residents. Population density was 29.7 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, North Mountain shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 88 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 133 |
| Number of families | 133 |
| Number of females | 431 |
| Number of males | 402 |
| Number of married females | 104 |
| Number of married males | 104 |
| Number of married persons | 208 |
| Number of widowed females | 24 |
| Number of widowed males | 6 |
| Number of widowed persons | 30 |
| POP TOT | 833 |
| Total population | 833 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 303 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 292 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 595 |
Buildings & housing (5 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties | 2 |
| Number of houses under construction | 1 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 128 |
| Number of occupied houses | 130 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 1 |
Agriculture (25 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,505 |
| Acres of potatoes | 241 |
| Acres of wheat | 45 |
| BAR BU | 741 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 741 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 510 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 74 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 1 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 7,640 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 121 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 16 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 15,051 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 478 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 424 |
| BWT BU | 510 |
| CRN BU | 1 |
| HAY AC | 1,505 |
| HAY TONS | 1,672 |
| OAT BU | 7,640 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 16 |
| POT AC | 241 |
| POT BU | 15,051 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,672 |
| WHT AC | 45 |
| WHT SP BU | 478 |
Fisheries (11 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 26 |
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 3 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 718 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 5 |
| Barrels of oysters produced in the past year | 105 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 3,418 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 96 |
| Number of fishing boats | 58 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 62 |
| Number of shoremen | 1 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 438 |
Other recorded variables (32 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 718 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 62 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 58 |
| C UNMD F | 303 |
| C UNMD M | 292 |
| C UNMD TOT | 595 |
| CD NAME | Inverness |
| COD DX K | 438 |
| D OCC | 130 |
| EEL XB Q | 26 |
| FEMALE | 431 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 96 |
| GRA BU | 74 |
| GSP XB Q | 3 |
| H CON | 1 |
| H INHAB | 128 |
| H UNINH | 1 |
| MALE | 402 |
| MCK XB Q | 5 |
| MD F | 104 |
| MD M | 104 |
| MD TOT | 208 |
| NET XX F | 3,418 |
| NUMBER CD | 4 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 121 |
| OYS XB Q | 105 |
| SHAN | 2 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 1 |
| TUR BU | 424 |
| WID F | 24 |
| WID M | 6 |
| WID TOT | 30 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS004003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS036012 — 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 Mountain, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/north-mountain-ns004003-1881/.