Sambro, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Name: Sambro (1881)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Sambro was a census subdivision in Halifax (County-Comté) County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 494. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.490°N, 63.613°W.

Population

In 1881, Sambro had a population of 494: 259 male and 235 female residents. Population density was 18.3 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	440
1881	494

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, Sambro shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 68 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	92
Number of families	92
Number of females	235
Number of males	259
Number of married females	88
Number of married males	91
Number of married persons	179
Number of widowed females	9
Number of widowed males	5
Number of widowed persons	14
POP TOT	494
Total population	494

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	138
Number of single males under 18	163
Number of single persons under 18	301

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	2
Number of inhabited houses	92
Number of occupied houses	92
Number of uninhabited houses	5

Agriculture (9 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	146
Acres of potatoes	22
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	1,803
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	140
HAY AC	146
HAY TONS	154
POT AC	22
POT BU	1,803
Tons of hay produced in the past year	154

Fisheries (11 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year	65
Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year	224
Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year	2,204
Fathoms of fishing nets	10,777
Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year	3,982
Number of fishing boats	162
Number of men on fishing boats	160
Number of shoremen	17
Pounds of lobster canned in the past year	24,000
Quintals of cod produced in the past year	6,071
Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year	1,214

Other recorded variables (29 variables)

Variable	Value
BBL HERR OR ALE	224
BOAT MEN Q	160
BOATS FOR FISH	162
C UNMD F	138
C UNMD M	163
C UNMD TOT	301
CD NAME	Halifax (County-Comté)
COD DX K	6,071
D OCC	92
FEMALE	235
GAL FISH OIL	3,982
GSP XB Q	65
H CON	2
H INHAB	92
H UNINH	5
HAD DX K	1,214
LOB XC P	24,000
MALE	259
MCK XB Q	2,204
MD F	88
MD M	91
MD TOT	179
NET XX F	10,777
NUMBER CD	10
SHOREMEN XX Q	17
TUR BU	140
WID F	9
WID M	5
WID TOT	14

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS010004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS010004 — 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). "Sambro, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/sambro-ns010004-1881/.