Sheet Harbor, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Sheet Harbor was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,197. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.925°N, 62.523°W.

Population

In 1881, Sheet Harbor had a population of 1,197: 609 male and 588 female residents.

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, Sheet Harbor shared boundaries with:

• NO DATA
• Pope's Harbor
• Salmon River

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 41 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,197 total population, 609 males, 588 females, 383 married persons, 193 married males, 190 married females, 181 families, 33 widowed persons, 26 widowed females, 7 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 781 single persons under 18, 409 single males under 18, 372 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 143 occupied houses, 142 inhabited houses, 1 dwellings that are temporary vessels, 1 houses under construction, 1 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 4,809 bushels of potatoes, 417 tons of hay, 318 acres of hay crops, 290 bushels of oats, 39 acres of potatoes, 28 bushels of spring wheat, 15 bushels of buckwheat, 10 bushels of barley, 4 acres of wheat, 4 bushels of other root crops. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 5,849 fathoms of fishing nets, 1,302 quintals of cod, 569 gallons of fish oil, 406 barrels of herring or alewives, 144 barrels of mackerel, 135 quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock, 89 men on fishing boats, 76 barrels of gaspareaux, 52 fishing boats, 23 barrels of eels, 9 barrels of salmon, 6 barrels of halibut. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 153,500 pounds of lobster canned — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,197 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: NS010024 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS010024 — 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). "Sheet Harbor, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/sheet-harbor-ns010024-1881/.