Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Victoria
South Gut, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
South Gut was a census subdivision in Victoria County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 788. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.223°N, 60.607°W.
Population
In 1881, South Gut had a population of 788: 384 male and 404 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, South Gut shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 78 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 114 |
| Number of families | 114 |
| Number of females | 404 |
| Number of males | 384 |
| Number of married females | 95 |
| Number of married males | 95 |
| Number of married persons | 190 |
| Number of widowed females | 27 |
| Number of widowed males | 4 |
| Number of widowed persons | 31 |
| POP TOT | 788 |
| Total population | 788 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 282 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 285 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 567 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 1 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 114 |
| Number of occupied houses | 114 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 1 |
Agriculture (21 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,382 |
| Acres of potatoes | 142 |
| Acres of wheat | 42 |
| BAR BU | 336 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 336 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 32 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 17 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 5,635 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 9 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 13,569 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 458 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 190 |
| BWT BU | 32 |
| HAY AC | 1,382 |
| HAY TONS | 1,321 |
| OAT BU | 5,635 |
| POT AC | 142 |
| POT BU | 13,569 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,321 |
| WHT AC | 42 |
| WHT SP BU | 458 |
Fisheries (9 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 292 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 40 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 10 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 2,037 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 47 |
| Number of fishing boats | 29 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 58 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 228 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 12 |
Other recorded variables (29 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 292 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 58 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 29 |
| C UNMD F | 282 |
| C UNMD M | 285 |
| C UNMD TOT | 567 |
| CD NAME | Victoria |
| COD DX K | 228 |
| D OCC | 114 |
| FEMALE | 404 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 47 |
| GRA BU | 17 |
| H CON | 1 |
| H INHAB | 114 |
| H UNINH | 1 |
| HAD DX K | 12 |
| MALE | 384 |
| MCK XB Q | 40 |
| MD F | 95 |
| MD M | 95 |
| MD TOT | 190 |
| NET XX F | 2,037 |
| NUMBER CD | 5 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 9 |
| SLM XB Q | 10 |
| TUR BU | 190 |
| WID F | 27 |
| WID M | 4 |
| WID TOT | 31 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS005009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS020018 — 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). "South Gut, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/south-gut-ns005009-1881/.