Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Richmond
River Bourgeois, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
River Bourgeois was a census subdivision in Richmond County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,100. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.654°N, 60.970°W.
Population
In 1881, River Bourgeois had a population of 1,100: 540 male and 560 female residents. Population density was 39.2 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, River Bourgeois shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 82 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 236 |
| Number of families | 236 |
| Number of females | 560 |
| Number of males | 540 |
| Number of married females | 177 |
| Number of married males | 178 |
| Number of married persons | 355 |
| Number of widowed females | 40 |
| Number of widowed males | 8 |
| Number of widowed persons | 48 |
| POP TOT | 1,100 |
| Total population | 1,100 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 343 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 354 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 697 |
Buildings & housing (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of inhabited houses | 199 |
| Number of occupied houses | 199 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 4 |
Agriculture (20 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 924 |
| Acres of potatoes | 215 |
| Acres of wheat | 4 |
| BAR BU | 26 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 26 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 16 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 987 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 55 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 10,438 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 12 |
| Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year | 17 |
| BWT BU | 16 |
| HAY AC | 924 |
| HAY TONS | 1,050 |
| OAT BU | 987 |
| POT AC | 215 |
| POT BU | 10,438 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,050 |
| WHT AC | 4 |
| WHT WTR BU | 17 |
Fisheries (13 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 20 |
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 25 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 538 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 453 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 4,987 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 4,628 |
| Number of fishing boats | 45 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 32 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 38 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 226 |
| Pounds of lobster canned in the past year | 12,500 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 8,189 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 22 |
Other recorded variables (31 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 538 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 38 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 45 |
| C UNMD F | 343 |
| C UNMD M | 354 |
| C UNMD TOT | 697 |
| CD NAME | Richmond |
| COD DX K | 8,189 |
| D OCC | 199 |
| EEL XB Q | 20 |
| FEMALE | 560 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 4,628 |
| GSP XB Q | 25 |
| H INHAB | 199 |
| H UNINH | 4 |
| HAD DX K | 22 |
| LOB XC P | 12,500 |
| MALE | 540 |
| MCK XB Q | 453 |
| MD F | 177 |
| MD M | 178 |
| MD TOT | 355 |
| NET XX F | 4,987 |
| NUMBER CD | 7 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 55 |
| TUR BU | 12 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 226 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 32 |
| WID F | 40 |
| WID M | 8 |
| WID TOT | 48 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS007006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS018014 — 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). "River Bourgeois, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/river-bourgeois-ns007006-1881/.