Polling district No. 34, Nova Scotia (1891 census)

Name: Polling district No. 34 (1891)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Polling district No. 34 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 924. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.934°N, 62.373°W.

Population

In 1891, Polling district No. 34 had a population of 924: 490 male and 434 female residents. Population density was 16.9 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1891	924
1901	1,291

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. 34 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 143 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.80
FAM NO	159
Number of families	159
Number of females	434
Number of males	490
Number of married females	157
Number of married males	153
Number of married persons	310
Number of widowed females	32
Number of widowed males	13
Number of widowed persons	45
POP F	434
POP M	490
POP TOT	924
Total population	924

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	245
Number of single males under 18	324
Number of single persons under 18	569

Ethnic origin (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	924

Buildings & housing (13 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	159
Number of houses built of wood	159
Number of houses of 1 story	159
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	3
Number of houses of 2 rooms	6
Number of houses of 3 rooms	10
Number of houses of 4 rooms	35
Number of houses of 5 rooms	27
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	77
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	1
Number of houses under construction	5
Number of occupied houses	159
Number of uninhabited houses	16

Agriculture (50 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in pasture	893
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	10,686
Acres of farmland under crops	663
Acres of hay crops	335
Acres of improved land in farms	1,556
Acres of land in farms	12,242
Acres of oats	5
Acres of potatoes	26
Acres of turnips	7
BAR BU	5
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	5
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	23
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	102
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	4
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	2,641
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	848
HAY AC	335
HAY TONS	726
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	94
Number of chickens	1,940
Number of ducks	179
Number of farm occupants who own their land	139
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	1
Number of geese	536
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	6
Number of horses aged over 3 years	54
Number of milk cows	198
Number of occupants of farms	140
Number of other cattle	200
Number of other fowl	2
Number of oxen	78
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	16
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	46
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	29
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	17
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	32
Number of sheep	591
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	152
Number of swine	21
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	61
Number of turkeys	9
OAT AC	5
OAT BU	102
PEA BU	4
POT AC	26
POT BU	2,641
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	106
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year	1,764
Pounds of homemade butter	13,074
Tons of hay produced in the past year	726

Other recorded variables (61 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	16
A 11 50	46
A 201 PL	17
A 51 100	29
BEN BU	23
BUTTER LB	13,074
CATTLE KS	94
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	245
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	324
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	569
COARSE WOOL LB	106
COLTS FILLIES	6
DUCKS	179
FAMILIES	159
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.80
FINE WOOL LB	1,764
FRN CA	0
GEESE	536
HENS AND CHKN	1,940
HORSES OVR THREE	54
HOUSES	159
HOUSES CON	5
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	3
HOUSES FIVE RM	27
HOUSES FOUR RM	35
HOUSES ONE STRY	159
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	77
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	1
HOUSES THREE RM	10
HOUSES TWO RM	6
HOUSES UNINH	16
HOUSES W	159
INF 11 A	32
MD FEM	157
MD MALE	153
MD TOT	310
MILK COWS	198
NAME CD	Halifax, County-Comté
OC F	1
OC P	139
OC TOT	140
OTHER FOWL	2
OTHER HRN CATTLE	200
OTHERS	924
SHEEP	591
SHEEP KS	152
SUP AM	1,556
SUP FOR	10,686
SUP PAT	893
SUP SC	663
SUP TOT	12,242
SWINE	21
SWINE KS	61
TOT DWLG OCC	159
TUR AC	7
TUR BU	848
TURKEY	9
WID FEM	32
WID MALE	13
WID TOT	45
WORKING OX	78

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS034032 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS030030 — 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. 34, Nova Scotia (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/polling-district-no-34-ns034032-1891/.