Port La Tour, Nova Scotia (1871–1881)

Port La Tour was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in 2 censuses between 1871 and 1881. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q7230747, so it can be queried as a single entity even when its boundaries or census name varied across years.

Historical lineage

Ancestor places

• split off from NO DATA in 1871

Descendant places

• later split into Port Clyde in 1891
• later split into Port Latour in 1891
• later split into Clyde River in 1881

Population trajectory across census years

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Identifiers

• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS013011 — assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap
• Wikidata: Q7230747
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_La_Tour
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_La_Tour

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1851–1921 Census of Canada series, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project. Each year's detail page (linked above) cites the specific source table.