Polling district No. 16, Nova Scotia (1891 census)

Name: Polling district No. 16 (1891)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Polling district No. 16 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 648. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.772°N, 63.794°W.

Population

In 1891, Polling district No. 16 had a population of 648: 351 male and 297 female residents. Population density was 17.4 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1891	648
1901	709

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. 16 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 133 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.90
FAM NO	131
Number of families	131
Number of females	297
Number of males	351
Number of married females	114
Number of married males	115
Number of married persons	229
Number of widowed females	21
Number of widowed males	9
Number of widowed persons	30
POP F	297
POP M	351
POP TOT	648
Total population	648

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	162
Number of single males under 18	227
Number of single persons under 18	389

Ethnic origin (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	648

Buildings & housing (11 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	127
Number of houses built of wood	127
Number of houses of 1 story	111
Number of houses of 2 stories	16
Number of houses of 3 rooms	9
Number of houses of 4 rooms	24
Number of houses of 5 rooms	26
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	68
Number of houses under construction	4
Number of occupied houses	127
Number of uninhabited houses	13

Agriculture (43 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	13
Acres of farmland in pasture	1,681
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	16,762
Acres of farmland under crops	644
Acres of hay crops	425
Acres of improved land in farms	2,338
Acres of land in farms	19,100
Acres of potatoes	24
Acres of turnips	3
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	18
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	2,879
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	334
HAY AC	425
HAY TONS	539
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	13
Number of chickens	947
Number of ducks	8
Number of farm occupants who own their land	122
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	6
Number of geese	2
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	10
Number of horses aged over 3 years	94
Number of milk cows	128
Number of occupants of farms	128
Number of other cattle	107
Number of other fowl	6
Number of oxen	26
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	25
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	45
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	28
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	23
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	7
Number of sheep	26
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	4
Number of swine	41
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	74
Number of turkeys	4
POT AC	24
POT BU	2,879
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	41
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year	74
Pounds of homemade butter	12,502
Tons of hay produced in the past year	539

Other recorded variables (60 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	25
A 11 50	45
A 201 PL	23
A 51 100	28
BEN BU	18
BUTTER LB	12,502
CATTLE KS	13
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	162
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	227
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	389
COARSE WOOL LB	41
COLTS FILLIES	10
DUCKS	8
FAMILIES	131
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.90
FINE WOOL LB	74
FRN CA	0
GEESE	2
HENS AND CHKN	947
HORSES OVR THREE	94
HOUSES	127
HOUSES CON	4
HOUSES FIVE RM	26
HOUSES FOUR RM	24
HOUSES ONE STRY	111
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	68
HOUSES THREE RM	9
HOUSES TWO STRY	16
HOUSES UNINH	13
HOUSES W	127
INF 11 A	7
MD FEM	114
MD MALE	115
MD TOT	229
MILK COWS	128
NAME CD	Halifax, County-Comté
OC F	6
OC P	122
OC TOT	128
OTHER FOWL	6
OTHER HRN CATTLE	107
OTHERS	648
SHEEP	26
SHEEP KS	4
SUP AM	2,338
SUP FOR	16,762
SUP JV	13
SUP PAT	1,681
SUP SC	644
SUP TOT	19,100
SWINE	41
SWINE KS	74
TOT DWLG OCC	127
TUR AC	3
TUR BU	334
TURKEY	4
WID FEM	21
WID MALE	9
WID TOT	30
WORKING OX	26

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS034010 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS030014_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. 16, Nova Scotia (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/polling-district-no-16-ns034010-1891/.