Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Richmond
Red Islands, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
Red Islands was a census subdivision in Richmond County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 822. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.756°N, 60.696°W.
Population
In 1881, Red Islands had a population of 822: 396 male and 426 female residents. Population density was 19.6 people per square mile.
Population trajectory across census years
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, Red Islands shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 76 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 133 |
| Number of families | 133 |
| Number of females | 426 |
| Number of males | 396 |
| Number of married females | 102 |
| Number of married males | 104 |
| Number of married persons | 206 |
| Number of widowed females | 31 |
| Number of widowed males | 19 |
| Number of widowed persons | 50 |
| POP TOT | 822 |
| Total population | 822 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 293 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 273 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 566 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties | 14 |
| Number of houses under construction | 9 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 119 |
| Number of occupied houses | 133 |
Agriculture (19 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,066 |
| Acres of potatoes | 169 |
| Acres of wheat | 53 |
| BAR BU | 622 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 622 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 3,231 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 2 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 14,876 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 590 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 480 |
| HAY AC | 1,066 |
| HAY TONS | 839 |
| OAT BU | 3,231 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 2 |
| POT AC | 169 |
| POT BU | 14,876 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 839 |
| WHT AC | 53 |
| WHT SP BU | 590 |
Fisheries (10 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 72 |
| Barrels of halibut produced in the past year | 2 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 83 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 15 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 881 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 97 |
| Number of fishing boats | 17 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 23 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 323 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 54 |
Other recorded variables (28 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 83 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 23 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 17 |
| C UNMD F | 293 |
| C UNMD M | 273 |
| C UNMD TOT | 566 |
| CD NAME | Richmond |
| COD DX K | 323 |
| D OCC | 133 |
| EEL XB Q | 72 |
| FEMALE | 426 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 97 |
| H CON | 9 |
| H INHAB | 119 |
| HAD DX K | 54 |
| HAL XB Q | 2 |
| MALE | 396 |
| MCK XB Q | 15 |
| MD F | 102 |
| MD M | 104 |
| MD TOT | 206 |
| NET XX F | 881 |
| NUMBER CD | 7 |
| SHAN | 14 |
| TUR BU | 480 |
| WID F | 31 |
| WID M | 19 |
| WID TOT | 50 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS007008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS018013 — 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). "Red Islands, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/red-islands-ns007008-1881/.