Polling district No. 14, Nova Scotia (1891 census)

Name: Polling district No. 14 (1891)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Polling district No. 14 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 525. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.637°N, 63.633°W.

Population

In 1891, Polling district No. 14 had a population of 525: 266 male and 259 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1891	525
1901	832

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. 14 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 138 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.70
FAM NO	92
Number of families	92
Number of females	259
Number of males	266
Number of married females	80
Number of married males	85
Number of married persons	165
Number of widowed females	15
Number of widowed males	8
Number of widowed persons	23
POP F	259
POP M	266
POP TOT	525
Total population	525

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	164
Number of single males under 18	173
Number of single persons under 18	337

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	1
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	524

Buildings & housing (14 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	90
Number of houses built of wood	90
Number of houses of 1 story	67
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	4
Number of houses of 2 rooms	9
Number of houses of 2 stories	22
Number of houses of 3 rooms	6
Number of houses of 3 stories	1
Number of houses of 4 rooms	23
Number of houses of 5 rooms	13
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	33
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	2
Number of occupied houses	90
Number of uninhabited houses	6

Agriculture (45 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	7
Acres of farmland in pasture	134
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	3,121
Acres of farmland under crops	263
Acres of hay crops	125
Acres of improved land in farms	404
Acres of land in farms	3,525
Acres of oats	2
Acres of potatoes	9
Acres of turnips	3
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	260
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	50
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	800
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	316
CRN BU	260
HAY AC	125
HAY TONS	228
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	3
Number of chickens	780
Number of ducks	23
Number of employees on farms	10
Number of farm occupants who own their land	48
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	16
Number of geese	3
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	5
Number of horses aged over 3 years	44
Number of milk cows	92
Number of occupants of farms	74
Number of other cattle	36
Number of other fowl	2
Number of oxen	2
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	4
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	12
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	6
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	5
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	47
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	3
Number of swine	31
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	8
OAT AC	2
OAT BU	50
POT AC	9
POT BU	800
Pounds of homemade butter	1,904
Tons of hay produced in the past year	228

Other recorded variables (59 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	4
A 11 50	12
A 201 PL	5
A 51 100	6
BUTTER LB	1,904
CATTLE KS	3
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	164
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	173
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	337
COLTS FILLIES	5
DUCKS	23
FAMILIES	92
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.70
FRN CA	1
GEESE	3
HENS AND CHKN	780
HORSES OVR THREE	44
HOUSES	90
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	4
HOUSES FIVE RM	13
HOUSES FOUR RM	23
HOUSES ONE STRY	67
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	33
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	2
HOUSES THREE RM	6
HOUSES THREE STRY	1
HOUSES TWO RM	9
HOUSES TWO STRY	22
HOUSES UNINH	6
HOUSES W	90
INF 11 A	47
MD FEM	80
MD MALE	85
MD TOT	165
MILK COWS	92
NAME CD	Halifax, County-Comté
OC E	10
OC F	16
OC P	48
OC TOT	74
OTHER FOWL	2
OTHER HRN CATTLE	36
OTHERS	524
SHEEP KS	3
SUP AM	404
SUP FOR	3,121
SUP JV	7
SUP PAT	134
SUP SC	263
SUP TOT	3,525
SWINE	31
SWINE KS	8
TOT DWLG OCC	90
TUR AC	3
TUR BU	316
WID FEM	15
WID MALE	8
WID TOT	23
WORKING OX	2

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS034008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS030012_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. 14, Nova Scotia (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/polling-district-no-14-ns034008-1891/.