Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Halifax (County-Comté)
Pier's Mills, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
Pier's Mills was a census subdivision in Halifax (County-Comté) County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 535. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.697°N, 63.687°W.
Population
In 1881, Pier's Mills had a population of 535: 255 male and 280 female residents. Population density was 22.1 people per square mile.
Population trajectory across census years
| Year | Population |
|---|
| 1871 | 365 |
| 1881 | 535 |
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, Pier's Mills shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 76 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 86 |
| Number of families | 86 |
| Number of females | 280 |
| Number of males | 255 |
| Number of married females | 82 |
| Number of married males | 81 |
| Number of married persons | 163 |
| Number of widowed females | 23 |
| Number of widowed males | 10 |
| Number of widowed persons | 33 |
| POP TOT | 535 |
| Total population | 535 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 175 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 164 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 339 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties | 1 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 80 |
| Number of occupied houses | 81 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 9 |
Agriculture (20 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 136 |
| Acres of potatoes | 20 |
| BAR BU | 40 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 40 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 18 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 5 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 407 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 456 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 82 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 2,258 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 357 |
| BWT BU | 18 |
| CRN BU | 5 |
| HAY AC | 136 |
| HAY TONS | 190 |
| OAT BU | 407 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 82 |
| POT AC | 20 |
| POT BU | 2,258 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 190 |
Fisheries (9 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 13 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 381 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 4 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 1,121 |
| Number of fishing boats | 6 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 8 |
| Number of shoremen | 4 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 2 |
| Quintals of fascines fish produced in the past year | 1 |
Other recorded variables (28 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 13 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 8 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 6 |
| C UNMD F | 175 |
| C UNMD M | 164 |
| C UNMD TOT | 339 |
| CD NAME | Halifax (County-Comté) |
| COD DX K | 2 |
| D OCC | 81 |
| FASCINE FISH Q | 1 |
| FEMALE | 280 |
| H INHAB | 80 |
| H UNINH | 9 |
| MALE | 255 |
| MCK XB Q | 381 |
| MD F | 82 |
| MD M | 81 |
| MD TOT | 163 |
| NET XX F | 1,121 |
| NUMBER CD | 10 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 456 |
| SHAN | 1 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 4 |
| SLM XB Q | 4 |
| TUR BU | 357 |
| WID F | 23 |
| WID M | 10 |
| WID TOT | 33 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS010012 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS010012 — 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). "Pier's Mills, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/pier-s-mills-ns010012-1881/.