Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Digby
St. Bernard, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
St. Bernard was a census subdivision in Digby County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,125. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.379°N, 65.938°W.
Population
In 1881, St. Bernard had a population of 1,125: 555 male and 570 female residents. Population density was 24.1 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, St. Bernard 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 | 187 |
| Number of families | 187 |
| Number of females | 570 |
| Number of males | 555 |
| Number of married females | 167 |
| Number of married males | 168 |
| Number of married persons | 335 |
| Number of widowed females | 33 |
| Number of widowed males | 8 |
| Number of widowed persons | 41 |
| POP TOT | 1,125 |
| Total population | 1,125 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 370 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 379 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 749 |
Buildings & housing (5 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties | 3 |
| Number of houses under construction | 5 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 180 |
| Number of occupied houses | 183 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 12 |
Agriculture (25 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,174 |
| Acres of potatoes | 168 |
| Acres of wheat | 39 |
| BAR BU | 298 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 298 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 616 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 2 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 30 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 1,078 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 1,408 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 56 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 19,537 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 588 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 4,237 |
| BWT BU | 616 |
| CRN BU | 30 |
| HAY AC | 1,174 |
| HAY TONS | 1,293 |
| OAT BU | 1,078 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 56 |
| POT AC | 168 |
| POT BU | 19,537 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,293 |
| WHT AC | 39 |
| WHT SP BU | 588 |
Fisheries (9 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 331 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 273 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 1,419 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 259 |
| Number of fishing boats | 53 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 99 |
| Number of shoremen | 62 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 48 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 1,719 |
Other recorded variables (30 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 331 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 99 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 53 |
| C UNMD F | 370 |
| C UNMD M | 379 |
| C UNMD TOT | 749 |
| CD NAME | Digby |
| COD DX K | 48 |
| D OCC | 183 |
| FEMALE | 570 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 259 |
| GRA BU | 2 |
| H CON | 5 |
| H INHAB | 180 |
| H UNINH | 12 |
| HAD DX K | 1,719 |
| MALE | 555 |
| MCK XB Q | 273 |
| MD F | 167 |
| MD M | 168 |
| MD TOT | 335 |
| NET XX F | 1,419 |
| NUMBER CD | 15 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 1,408 |
| SHAN | 3 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 62 |
| TUR BU | 4,237 |
| WID F | 33 |
| WID M | 8 |
| WID TOT | 41 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS015009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS009018 — 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). "St. Bernard, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/st-bernard-ns015009-1881/.