Polling district No. 8, Nova Scotia (1891 census)

Name: Polling district No. 8 (1891)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Polling district No. 8 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 552. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.518°N, 63.549°W.

Population

In 1891, Polling district No. 8 had a population of 552: 316 male and 236 female residents. Population density was 79.8 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1891	552
1901	612

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. 8 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 129 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.30
FAM NO	105
Number of families	105
Number of females	236
Number of males	316
Number of married females	90
Number of married males	90
Number of married persons	180
Number of widowed females	14
Number of widowed males	8
Number of widowed persons	22
POP F	236
POP M	316
POP TOT	552
Total population	552

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	132
Number of single males under 18	218
Number of single persons under 18	350

Ethnic origin (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	552

Buildings & housing (13 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	101
Number of houses built of wood	101
Number of houses of 1 story	89
Number of houses of 2 rooms	2
Number of houses of 2 stories	11
Number of houses of 3 rooms	22
Number of houses of 3 stories	1
Number of houses of 4 rooms	36
Number of houses of 5 rooms	18
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	23
Number of houses under construction	3
Number of occupied houses	101
Number of uninhabited houses	11

Agriculture (40 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	3
Acres of farmland in pasture	26
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	1,676
Acres of farmland under crops	378
Acres of hay crops	138
Acres of improved land in farms	407
Acres of land in farms	2,083
Acres of potatoes	14
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	2
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	2
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	731
HAY AC	138
HAY TONS	161
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	14
Number of chickens	580
Number of ducks	126
Number of farm occupants who own their land	89
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	2
Number of geese	83
Number of horses aged over 3 years	12
Number of milk cows	64
Number of occupants of farms	91
Number of other cattle	43
Number of oxen	13
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	18
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	4
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	65
Number of sheep	10
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	3
Number of swine	5
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	31
Number of turkeys	29
PEA BU	2
POT AC	14
POT BU	731
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	15
Pounds of homemade butter	5,583
Tons of hay produced in the past year	161

Other recorded variables (57 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	2
A 11 50	18
A 201 PL	2
A 51 100	4
BEN BU	2
BUTTER LB	5,583
CATTLE KS	14
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	132
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	218
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	350
COARSE WOOL LB	15
DUCKS	126
FAMILIES	105
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.30
FRN CA	0
GEESE	83
HENS AND CHKN	580
HORSES OVR THREE	12
HOUSES	101
HOUSES CON	3
HOUSES FIVE RM	18
HOUSES FOUR RM	36
HOUSES ONE STRY	89
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	23
HOUSES THREE RM	22
HOUSES THREE STRY	1
HOUSES TWO RM	2
HOUSES TWO STRY	11
HOUSES UNINH	11
HOUSES W	101
INF 11 A	65
MD FEM	90
MD MALE	90
MD TOT	180
MILK COWS	64
NAME CD	Halifax, County-Comté
OC F	2
OC P	89
OC TOT	91
OTHER HRN CATTLE	43
OTHERS	552
SHEEP	10
SHEEP KS	3
SUP AM	407
SUP FOR	1,676
SUP JV	3
SUP PAT	26
SUP SC	378
SUP TOT	2,083
SWINE	5
SWINE KS	31
TOT DWLG OCC	101
TURKEY	29
WID FEM	14
WID MALE	8
WID TOT	22
WORKING OX	13

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS034002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS030006_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. 8, Nova Scotia (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/polling-district-no-8-ns034002-1891/.