Polling district No. 12, Nova Scotia (1901 census)

Name: Polling district No. 12 (1901)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Polling district No. 12 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 451. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.753°N, 63.732°W.

Population

In 1901, Polling district No. 12 had a population of 451: 236 male and 215 female residents.

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.

Earlier boundary forms

In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Pugwash, 1891 (46.9% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, Polling district No. 12 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1901

The 1901 census recorded 11 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 2 categories.

Population & families (1901). This community's record includes 451 total population, 236 males, 215 females, 147 single males, 112 single females, 98 families, 84 married females, 82 married males, 19 widowed females, 7 widowed males. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Buildings & housing (1901). This community's record includes 98 houses. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS030010 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS030010 — 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 1901 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. 12, Nova Scotia (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/polling-district-no-12-ns030010-1901/.