Polling district No. 38, Nova Scotia (1891 census)

Name: Polling district No. 38 (1891)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Polling district No. 38 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 656. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.556°N, 63.872°W.

Population

In 1891, Polling district No. 38 had a population of 656: 370 male and 286 female residents. Population density was 13.2 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1891	656
1901	686

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. 38 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	6
FAM NO	108
Number of families	108
Number of females	286
Number of males	370
Number of married females	112
Number of married males	115
Number of married persons	227
Number of widowed females	8
Number of widowed males	10
Number of widowed persons	18
POP F	286
POP M	370
POP TOT	656
Total population	656

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	166
Number of single males under 18	245
Number of single persons under 18	411

Ethnic origin (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	656

Buildings & housing (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of dwellings that are vessels and shanties	2
Number of houses	104
Number of houses built of wood	104
Number of houses of 1 story	101
Number of houses of 2 rooms	2
Number of houses of 2 stories	2
Number of houses of 3 rooms	5
Number of houses of 3 stories	1
Number of houses of 4 rooms	10
Number of houses of 5 rooms	18
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	68
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	1
Number of houses under construction	4
Number of occupied houses	106
Number of uninhabited houses	4

Agriculture (50 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	19
Acres of farmland in pasture	100
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	4,153
Acres of farmland under crops	408
Acres of hay crops	134
Acres of improved land in farms	527
Acres of land in farms	4,680
Acres of oats	8
Acres of potatoes	36
Acres of turnips	4
BAR BU	17
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	17
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	85
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	1
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	15
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	168
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	6
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	2,982
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	420
BWT BU	1
CRN BU	15
HAY AC	134
HAY TONS	212
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	10
Number of chickens	924
Number of ducks	43
Number of farm occupants who own their land	99
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	7
Number of geese	4
Number of horses aged over 3 years	5
Number of milk cows	66
Number of occupants of farms	106
Number of other cattle	23
Number of oxen	72
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	3
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	40
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	17
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	5
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	41
Number of sheep	52
Number of swine	131
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	8
OAT AC	8
OAT BU	168
PEA BU	6
POT AC	36
POT BU	2,982
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year	153
Pounds of homemade butter	7,183
Tons of hay produced in the past year	212

Other recorded variables (59 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	3
A 11 50	40
A 201 PL	5
A 51 100	17
BEN BU	85
BUTTER LB	7,183
CATTLE KS	10
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	166
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	245
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	411
DUCKS	43
FAMILIES	108
FAMILIES AV SIZE	6
FINE WOOL LB	153
FRN CA	0
GEESE	4
HENS AND CHKN	924
HORSES OVR THREE	5
HOUSES	104
HOUSES CON	4
HOUSES FIVE RM	18
HOUSES FOUR RM	10
HOUSES ONE STRY	101
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	68
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	1
HOUSES THREE RM	5
HOUSES THREE STRY	1
HOUSES TWO RM	2
HOUSES TWO STRY	2
HOUSES UNINH	4
HOUSES W	104
INF 11 A	41
MD FEM	112
MD MALE	115
MD TOT	227
MILK COWS	66
NAME CD	Halifax, County-Comté
OC F	7
OC P	99
OC TOT	106
OTHER HRN CATTLE	23
OTHERS	656
SHEEP	52
SUP AM	527
SUP FOR	4,153
SUP JV	19
SUP PAT	100
SUP SC	408
SUP TOT	4,680
SWINE	131
SWINE KS	8
TOT DWLG OCC	106
TUR AC	4
TUR BU	420
VESS AND SHAN	2
WID FEM	8
WID MALE	10
WID TOT	18
WORKING OX	72

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS034036 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS030033 — 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. 38, Nova Scotia (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/polling-district-no-38-ns034036-1891/.