Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Victoria
North Shore, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
North Shore was a census subdivision in Victoria County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 697. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.493°N, 60.471°W.
Population
In 1881, North Shore had a population of 697: 338 male and 359 female residents. Population density was 11.3 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 Shore shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 80 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 99 |
| Number of families | 99 |
| Number of females | 359 |
| Number of males | 338 |
| Number of married females | 88 |
| Number of married males | 87 |
| Number of married persons | 175 |
| Number of widowed females | 21 |
| Number of widowed males | 11 |
| Number of widowed persons | 32 |
| POP TOT | 697 |
| Total population | 697 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 250 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 240 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 490 |
Buildings & housing (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties | 1 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 98 |
| Number of occupied houses | 99 |
Agriculture (19 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 616 |
| Acres of potatoes | 122 |
| Acres of wheat | 18 |
| BAR BU | 448 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 448 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 7 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 6,194 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 6 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 7,874 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 314 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 180 |
| HAY AC | 616 |
| HAY TONS | 584 |
| OAT BU | 6,194 |
| POT AC | 122 |
| POT BU | 7,874 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 584 |
| WHT AC | 18 |
| WHT SP BU | 314 |
Fisheries (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 256 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 466 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 2 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 3,630 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 543 |
| Number of fishing boats | 111 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 1 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 168 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 4 |
| Number of shoremen | 7 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 1,548 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 277 |
Other recorded variables (31 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 256 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 168 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 111 |
| C UNMD F | 250 |
| C UNMD M | 240 |
| C UNMD TOT | 490 |
| CD NAME | Victoria |
| COD DX K | 1,548 |
| D OCC | 99 |
| FEMALE | 359 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 543 |
| GRA BU | 7 |
| H INHAB | 98 |
| HAD DX K | 277 |
| MALE | 338 |
| MCK XB Q | 466 |
| MD F | 88 |
| MD M | 87 |
| MD TOT | 175 |
| NET XX F | 3,630 |
| NUMBER CD | 5 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 6 |
| SHAN | 1 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 7 |
| SLM XB Q | 2 |
| TUR BU | 180 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 4 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 1 |
| WID F | 21 |
| WID M | 11 |
| WID TOT | 32 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS005011 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS020017_1881 — 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 Shore, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/north-shore-ns005011-1881/.