Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Name: Portuguese Cove (1881)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Portuguese Cove was a census subdivision in Halifax (County-Comté) County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 611. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.518°N, 63.549°W.

Population

In 1881, Portuguese Cove had a population of 611: 333 male and 278 female residents. Population density was 88.3 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	515
1881	611

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Portuguese Cove shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 70 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	115
Number of families	115
Number of females	278
Number of males	333
Number of married females	83
Number of married males	85
Number of married persons	168
Number of widowed females	17
Number of widowed males	11
Number of widowed persons	28
POP TOT	611
Total population	611

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	178
Number of single males under 18	237
Number of single persons under 18	415

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	3
Number of inhabited houses	109
Number of occupied houses	109
Number of uninhabited houses	13

Agriculture (11 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	150
Acres of potatoes	19
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	30
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	21
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	1,458
HAY AC	150
HAY TONS	133
OAT BU	30
POT AC	19
POT BU	1,458
Tons of hay produced in the past year	133

Fisheries (11 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year	38
Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year	930
Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year	937
Fathoms of fishing nets	18,568
Number of fishing boats	202
Number of fishing vessels	11
Number of men on fishing boats	240
Number of men on fishing vessels	41
Number of shoremen	10
Quintals of cod produced in the past year	4,318
Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year	807

Other recorded variables (29 variables)

Variable	Value
BBL HERR OR ALE	930
BOAT MEN Q	240
BOATS FOR FISH	202
C UNMD F	178
C UNMD M	237
C UNMD TOT	415
CD NAME	Halifax (County-Comté)
COD DX K	4,318
D OCC	109
FEMALE	278
GSP XB Q	38
H CON	3
H INHAB	109
H UNINH	13
HAD DX K	807
MALE	333
MCK XB Q	937
MD F	83
MD M	85
MD TOT	168
NET XX F	18,568
NUMBER CD	10
OTHR ROOT BU	21
SHOREMEN XX Q	10
VESSEL MEN Q	41
VESSEL XX Q	11
WID F	17
WID M	11
WID TOT	28

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS010003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS010003 — 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 1881 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). "Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/portuguese-cove-ns010003-1881/.