Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Halifax (County-Comté)
Sheet Harbor, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
Sheet Harbor was a census subdivision in Halifax (County-Comté) County, 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 density was 16.3 people per square mile.
Population trajectory across census years
| Year | Population |
|---|
| 1871 | 1,023 |
| 1881 | 1,197 |
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:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 84 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 181 |
| Number of families | 181 |
| Number of females | 588 |
| Number of males | 609 |
| Number of married females | 190 |
| Number of married males | 193 |
| Number of married persons | 383 |
| Number of widowed females | 26 |
| Number of widowed males | 7 |
| Number of widowed persons | 33 |
| POP TOT | 1,197 |
| Total population | 1,197 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 372 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 409 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 781 |
Buildings & housing (5 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of dwellings that are temporary vessels | 1 |
| Number of houses under construction | 1 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 142 |
| Number of occupied houses | 143 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 1 |
Agriculture (19 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 318 |
| Acres of potatoes | 39 |
| Acres of wheat | 4 |
| BAR BU | 10 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 10 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 15 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 290 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 4 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 4,809 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 28 |
| BWT BU | 15 |
| HAY AC | 318 |
| HAY TONS | 417 |
| OAT BU | 290 |
| POT AC | 39 |
| POT BU | 4,809 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 417 |
| WHT AC | 4 |
| WHT SP BU | 28 |
Fisheries (13 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 23 |
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 76 |
| Barrels of halibut produced in the past year | 6 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 406 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 144 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 9 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 5,849 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 569 |
| Number of fishing boats | 52 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 89 |
| Pounds of lobster canned in the past year | 153,500 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 1,302 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 135 |
Other recorded variables (32 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 406 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 89 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 52 |
| C UNMD F | 372 |
| C UNMD M | 409 |
| C UNMD TOT | 781 |
| CD NAME | Halifax (County-Comté) |
| COD DX K | 1,302 |
| D OCC | 143 |
| EEL XB Q | 23 |
| FEMALE | 588 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 569 |
| GSP XB Q | 76 |
| H CON | 1 |
| H INHAB | 142 |
| H UNINH | 1 |
| HAD DX K | 135 |
| HAL XB Q | 6 |
| LOB XC P | 153,500 |
| MALE | 609 |
| MCK XB Q | 144 |
| MD F | 190 |
| MD M | 193 |
| MD TOT | 383 |
| NET XX F | 5,849 |
| NUMBER CD | 10 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 4 |
| SLM XB Q | 9 |
| VESS | 1 |
| WID F | 26 |
| WID M | 7 |
| WID TOT | 33 |
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/.