Polling district No. 9, Nova Scotia (1891 census)

Name: Polling district No. 9 (1891)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Polling district No. 9 was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 532. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.490°N, 63.613°W.

Population

In 1891, Polling district No. 9 had a population of 532: 267 male and 265 female residents. Population density was 19.7 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1891	532
1901	994

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. 9 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 135 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.50
FAM NO	97
Number of families	97
Number of females	265
Number of males	267
Number of married females	100
Number of married males	98
Number of married persons	198
Number of widowed females	12
Number of widowed males	4
Number of widowed persons	16
POP F	265
POP M	267
POP TOT	532
Total population	532

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	153
Number of single males under 18	165
Number of single persons under 18	318

Ethnic origin (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	532

Buildings & housing (11 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	80
Number of houses built of wood	80
Number of houses of 1 story	56
Number of houses of 2 rooms	2
Number of houses of 2 stories	24
Number of houses of 3 rooms	15
Number of houses of 4 rooms	36
Number of houses of 5 rooms	8
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	19
Number of occupied houses	80
Number of uninhabited houses	2

Agriculture (47 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	8
Acres of farmland in pasture	124
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	2,058
Acres of farmland under crops	219
Acres of hay crops	167
Acres of improved land in farms	351
Acres of land in farms	2,409
Acres of oats	4
Acres of potatoes	28
Acres of turnips	5
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	9
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	18
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	2
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	1,520
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	356
HAY AC	167
HAY TONS	206
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	3
Number of chickens	565
Number of ducks	27
Number of farm occupants who own their land	76
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	6
Number of geese	5
Number of horses aged over 3 years	7
Number of milk cows	88
Number of occupants of farms	82
Number of other cattle	5
Number of oxen	38
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	4
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	24
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	5
Number of persons living on farms over 200 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	47
Number of sheep	468
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	27
Number of swine	76
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	31
Number of turkeys	3
OAT AC	4
OAT BU	18
PEA BU	2
POT AC	28
POT BU	1,520
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	147
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year	1,150
Pounds of homemade butter	8,634
Tons of hay produced in the past year	206

Other recorded variables (58 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	4
A 11 50	24
A 201 PL	2
A 51 100	5
BEN BU	9
BUTTER LB	8,634
CATTLE KS	3
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	153
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	165
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	318
COARSE WOOL LB	147
DUCKS	27
FAMILIES	97
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.50
FINE WOOL LB	1,150
FRN CA	0
GEESE	5
HENS AND CHKN	565
HORSES OVR THREE	7
HOUSES	80
HOUSES FIVE RM	8
HOUSES FOUR RM	36
HOUSES ONE STRY	56
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	19
HOUSES THREE RM	15
HOUSES TWO RM	2
HOUSES TWO STRY	24
HOUSES UNINH	2
HOUSES W	80
INF 11 A	47
MD FEM	100
MD MALE	98
MD TOT	198
MILK COWS	88
NAME CD	Halifax, County-Comté
OC F	6
OC P	76
OC TOT	82
OTHER HRN CATTLE	5
OTHERS	532
SHEEP	468
SHEEP KS	27
SUP AM	351
SUP FOR	2,058
SUP JV	8
SUP PAT	124
SUP SC	219
SUP TOT	2,409
SWINE	76
SWINE KS	31
TOT DWLG OCC	80
TUR AC	5
TUR BU	356
TURKEY	3
WID FEM	12
WID MALE	4
WID TOT	16
WORKING OX	38

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS034003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS030007_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. 9, Nova Scotia (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/polling-district-no-9-ns034003-1891/.