North West Arm, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Name: North West Arm (1881)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

North West Arm was a census subdivision in Halifax (County-Comté) County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 460. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.637°N, 63.633°W.

Population

In 1881, North West Arm had a population of 460: 243 male and 217 female residents. Population density was 76.2 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	439
1881	460

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 West Arm shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 70 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	79
Number of families	79
Number of females	217
Number of males	243
Number of married females	71
Number of married males	72
Number of married persons	143
Number of widowed females	7
Number of widowed males	6
Number of widowed persons	13
POP TOT	460
Total population	460

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	139
Number of single males under 18	165
Number of single persons under 18	304

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	2
Number of inhabited houses	75
Number of occupied houses	75
Number of uninhabited houses	2

Agriculture (16 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	103
Acres of potatoes	20
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	2
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	171
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	176
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	96
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	2,860
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	400
BWT BU	2
HAY AC	103
HAY TONS	179
OAT BU	171
PEA AND BEN BU	96
POT AC	20
POT BU	2,860
Tons of hay produced in the past year	179

Fisheries (8 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year	36
Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year	6
Fathoms of fishing nets	137
Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year	9
Number of fishing boats	7
Number of men on fishing boats	7
Quintals of cod produced in the past year	6
Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year	8

Other recorded variables (27 variables)

Variable	Value
BBL HERR OR ALE	36
BOAT MEN Q	7
BOATS FOR FISH	7
C UNMD F	139
C UNMD M	165
C UNMD TOT	304
CD NAME	Halifax (County-Comté)
COD DX K	6
D OCC	75
FEMALE	217
GAL FISH OIL	9
H CON	2
H INHAB	75
H UNINH	2
HAD DX K	8
MALE	243
MCK XB Q	6
MD F	71
MD M	72
MD TOT	143
NET XX F	137
NUMBER CD	10
OTHR ROOT BU	176
TUR BU	400
WID F	7
WID M	6
WID TOT	13

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS010001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS010001 — 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 West Arm, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/north-west-arm-ns010001-1881/.