Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Lunenburg
Tancook, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
Tancook was a census subdivision in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 572. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.454°N, 64.156°W.
Population
In 1881, Tancook had a population of 572: 295 male and 277 female residents. Population density was 155.7 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, Tancook shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 76 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 99 |
| Number of families | 99 |
| Number of females | 277 |
| Number of males | 295 |
| Number of married females | 90 |
| Number of married males | 90 |
| Number of married persons | 180 |
| Number of widowed females | 12 |
| Number of widowed males | 4 |
| Number of widowed persons | 16 |
| POP TOT | 572 |
| Total population | 572 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 175 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 201 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 376 |
Buildings & housing (2 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of inhabited houses | 79 |
| Number of occupied houses | 79 |
Agriculture (22 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 444 |
| Acres of potatoes | 50 |
| Acres of wheat | 1 |
| BAR BU | 1,940 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 1,940 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 18 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 17 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 2,160 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 2 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 6,143 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 911 |
| Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year | 4 |
| BWT BU | 18 |
| HAY AC | 444 |
| HAY TONS | 427 |
| OAT BU | 17 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 2 |
| POT AC | 50 |
| POT BU | 6,143 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 427 |
| WHT AC | 1 |
| WHT WTR BU | 4 |
Fisheries (10 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 2,780 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 4,720 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 31,849 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 325 |
| Number of fishing boats | 132 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 2 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 174 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 16 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 486 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 72 |
Other recorded variables (27 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 2,780 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 174 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 132 |
| C UNMD F | 175 |
| C UNMD M | 201 |
| C UNMD TOT | 376 |
| CD NAME | Lunenburg |
| COD DX K | 486 |
| D OCC | 79 |
| FEMALE | 277 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 325 |
| H INHAB | 79 |
| HAD DX K | 72 |
| MALE | 295 |
| MCK XB Q | 4,720 |
| MD F | 90 |
| MD M | 90 |
| MD TOT | 180 |
| NET XX F | 31,849 |
| NUMBER CD | 11 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 2,160 |
| TUR BU | 911 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 16 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 2 |
| WID F | 12 |
| WID M | 4 |
| WID TOT | 16 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS011010 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS015037 — 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). "Tancook, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/tancook-ns011010-1881/.