Polling District No. 37, Nova Scotia (1891 census)

Name: Polling District No. 37 (1891)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Polling District No. 37 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 843. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.816°N, 63.176°W.

Population

In 1891, Polling District No. 37 had a population of 843: 435 male and 408 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 Musquodoboit Harbor, 1881 (64.1% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Polling District No. 37 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 74 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 843 total population, 435 males, 408 females, 277 married persons, 162 families, 139 married females, 138 married males, 30 widowed persons, 18 widowed females, 12 widowed males, 5.20 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 536 single persons under 18, 285 single males under 18, 251 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 843 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 140 occupied houses, 139 houses, 139 houses built of wood, 136 houses of 1 story, 78 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 24 houses of 4 rooms, 24 houses of 5 rooms, 9 houses of 3 rooms, 7 uninhabited houses, 4 houses under construction, 3 houses of 2 stories, 2 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 1 dwellings that are vessels and shanties, 1 houses of 2 rooms, 1 houses of over 15 rooms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 18,433 acres of land in farms, 14,945 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 10,711 pounds of homemade butter, 6,388 bushels of potatoes, 3,488 acres of improved land in farms, 2,095 acres of farmland under crops, 1,864 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 1,354 acres of farmland in pasture, 1,239 chickens, 1,099 bushels of turnips, 1,047 tons of hay, 731 acres of hay crops, 676 sheep, 261 bushels of barley, 237 other cattle, 215 milk cows, 162 bushels of oats, 151 occupants of farms, 143 sheep slaughtered or sold, 139 farm occupants who own their land, 136 oxen, 74 bushels of buckwheat, 64 acres of potatoes, 54 swine slaughtered or sold, 49 horses aged over 3 years, 49 swine, 49 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 44 geese, 41 cattle killed or sold, 40 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 39 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 34 bushels of beans, 32 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 30 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 27 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 24 other fowl, 22 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 15 bushels of peas, 14 acres of barley, 14 acres of turnips, 14 ducks, 12 farm occupants who rent their land, 8 acres of oats, 8 horses aged 3 years and under. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS034035 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS034035 — 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. 37, Nova Scotia (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/polling-district-no-37-ns034035-1891/.