Polling district No. 10, Nova Scotia (1891 census)

Name: Polling district No. 10 (1891)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Polling district No. 10 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 662. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.522°N, 63.785°W.

Population

In 1891, Polling district No. 10 had a population of 662: 368 male and 294 female residents. Population density was 23.1 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1891	662
1901	981

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Polling district No. 10 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 139 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.20
FAM NO	128
Number of families	128
Number of females	294
Number of males	368
Number of married females	99
Number of married males	100
Number of married persons	199
Number of widowed females	15
Number of widowed males	16
Number of widowed persons	31
POP F	294
POP M	368
POP TOT	662
Total population	662

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	180
Number of single males under 18	252
Number of single persons under 18	432

Ethnic origin (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	662

Buildings & housing (11 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	115
Number of houses built of wood	115
Number of houses of 1 story	111
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	5
Number of houses of 2 stories	3
Number of houses of 3 rooms	6
Number of houses of 3 stories	1
Number of houses of 4 rooms	16
Number of houses of 5 rooms	25
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	63
Number of occupied houses	115

Agriculture (49 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	6
Acres of farmland in pasture	27
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	5,323
Acres of farmland under crops	300
Acres of hay crops	126
Acres of improved land in farms	333
Acres of land in farms	5,656
Acres of potatoes	10
Acres of turnips	1
Acres of wheat	3
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	5
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	2
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	1,287
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	30
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	85
HAY AC	126
HAY TONS	206
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	15
Number of chickens	360
Number of ducks	51
Number of farm occupants who own their land	85
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	7
Number of geese	41
Number of horses aged over 3 years	8
Number of milk cows	52
Number of occupants of farms	92
Number of other cattle	33
Number of other fowl	22
Number of oxen	36
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	13
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	19
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	15
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	6
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	39
Number of sheep	131
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	13
Number of swine	32
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	27
Number of turkeys	4
PEA BU	2
POT AC	10
POT BU	1,287
Pounds of cheese produced on farms in the past year	140
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	320
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year	61
Pounds of homemade butter	2,475
Tons of hay produced in the past year	206
WHT AC	3
WHT SP BU	30

Other recorded variables (60 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	13
A 11 50	19
A 201 PL	6
A 51 100	15
BEN BU	5
BUTTER LB	2,475
CATTLE KS	15
CHEESE LB	140
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	180
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	252
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	432
COARSE WOOL LB	320
DUCKS	51
FAMILIES	128
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.20
FINE WOOL LB	61
FRN CA	0
GEESE	41
HENS AND CHKN	360
HORSES OVR THREE	8
HOUSES	115
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	5
HOUSES FIVE RM	25
HOUSES FOUR RM	16
HOUSES ONE STRY	111
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	63
HOUSES THREE RM	6
HOUSES THREE STRY	1
HOUSES TWO STRY	3
HOUSES W	115
INF 11 A	39
MD FEM	99
MD MALE	100
MD TOT	199
MILK COWS	52
NAME CD	Halifax, County-Comté
OC F	7
OC P	85
OC TOT	92
OTHER FOWL	22
OTHER HRN CATTLE	33
OTHERS	662
SHEEP	131
SHEEP KS	13
SUP AM	333
SUP FOR	5,323
SUP JV	6
SUP PAT	27
SUP SC	300
SUP TOT	5,656
SWINE	32
SWINE KS	27
TOT DWLG OCC	115
TUR AC	1
TUR BU	85
TURKEY	4
WID FEM	15
WID MALE	16
WID TOT	31
WORKING OX	36

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS034004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS030008_1891 — 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 1891 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). "Polling district No. 10, Nova Scotia (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/polling-district-no-10-ns034004-1891/.