Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Inverness
River Denys, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
River Denys was a census subdivision in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,097. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.858°N, 61.235°W.
Population
In 1881, River Denys had a population of 1,097: 511 male and 586 female residents. Population density was 10.9 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 Denys shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 80 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 167 |
| Number of families | 167 |
| Number of females | 586 |
| Number of males | 511 |
| Number of married females | 124 |
| Number of married males | 124 |
| Number of married persons | 248 |
| Number of widowed females | 33 |
| Number of widowed males | 12 |
| Number of widowed persons | 45 |
| POP TOT | 1,097 |
| Total population | 1,097 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 429 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 375 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 804 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 1 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 167 |
| Number of occupied houses | 167 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 5 |
Agriculture (23 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 2,138 |
| Acres of potatoes | 266 |
| Acres of wheat | 63 |
| BAR BU | 476 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 476 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 711 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 21 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 11,798 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 23 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 8 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 15,044 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 766 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 1,762 |
| BWT BU | 711 |
| HAY AC | 2,138 |
| HAY TONS | 2,650 |
| OAT BU | 11,798 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 8 |
| POT AC | 266 |
| POT BU | 15,044 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 2,650 |
| WHT AC | 63 |
| WHT SP BU | 766 |
Fisheries (9 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 7 |
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 2 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 48 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 5 |
| Barrels of oysters produced in the past year | 67 |
| Barrels of trout produced in the past year | 4 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 295 |
| Number of fishing boats | 6 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 10 |
Other recorded variables (29 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 48 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 10 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 6 |
| C UNMD F | 429 |
| C UNMD M | 375 |
| C UNMD TOT | 804 |
| CD NAME | Inverness |
| D OCC | 167 |
| EEL XB Q | 7 |
| FEMALE | 586 |
| GRA BU | 21 |
| GSP XB Q | 2 |
| H CON | 1 |
| H INHAB | 167 |
| H UNINH | 5 |
| MALE | 511 |
| MD F | 124 |
| MD M | 124 |
| MD TOT | 248 |
| NET XX F | 295 |
| NUMBER CD | 4 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 5 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 23 |
| OYS XB Q | 67 |
| TRT XB Q | 4 |
| TUR BU | 1,762 |
| WID F | 33 |
| WID M | 12 |
| WID TOT | 45 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS004004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS013017 — 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 Denys, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/river-denys-ns004004-1881/.