Petit de Grat, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Petit de Grat was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,922. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3377063. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.501°N, 60.981°W.

Population

In 1881, Petit de Grat had a population of 1,922: 941 male and 981 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.

Later boundary forms

• In a later year, this CSD contained Petit de Grat, 1891 (44.2% of this CSD's polygon).
• In a later year, this CSD contained Arichat E, 1891 (55.8% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Petit de Grat shared boundaries with:

• Arichat

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 44 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,922 total population, 981 females, 941 males, 600 married persons, 336 families, 301 married females, 299 married males, 112 widowed persons, 85 widowed females, 27 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,210 single persons under 18, 615 single males under 18, 595 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 312 occupied houses, 309 inhabited houses, 13 uninhabited houses, 10 houses under construction, 2 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 1 dwellings that are temporary vessels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 11,343 bushels of potatoes, 899 tons of hay, 747 bushels of oats, 724 acres of hay crops, 684 bushels of turnips, 239 bushels of other root crops, 133 acres of potatoes, 53 bushels of peas and beans, 18 bushels of corn. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 22,182 fathoms of fishing nets, 4,235 quintals of cod, 2,501 barrels of herring or alewives, 2,366 quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock, 2,232 barrels of mackerel, 2,025 gallons of fish oil, 407 men on fishing boats, 325 fishing boats, 148 barrels of gaspareaux, 50 men on fishing vessels, 35 shoremen, 11 barrels of salmon, 6 fishing vessels, 3 barrels of halibut, 1 barrels of eels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 153,000 pounds of lobster canned — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,922 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: NS007002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS051011 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3377063

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). "Petit de Grat, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/petit-de-grat-ns007002-1881/.