Tiverton, Nova Scotia (1891 census)

Name: Tiverton (1891)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Tiverton was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 513. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.344°N, 66.257°W.

Population

In 1891, Tiverton had a population of 513: 274 male and 239 female residents. Population density was 42.1 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1881	505
1891	513
1901	542
1911	606
1921	522

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Tiverton shared boundaries with:

Freeport

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 135 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	4.90
FAM NO	103
Number of families	103
Number of females	239
Number of males	274
Number of married females	96
Number of married males	95
Number of married persons	191
Number of widowed females	18
Number of widowed males	9
Number of widowed persons	27
POP F	239
POP M	274
POP TOT	513
Total population	513

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	125
Number of single males under 18	170
Number of single persons under 18	295

Ethnic origin (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	513

Buildings & housing (13 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of dwellings that are vessels and shanties	1
Number of houses	93
Number of houses built of wood	93
Number of houses of 1 story	93
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	1
Number of houses of 2 rooms	2
Number of houses of 3 rooms	13
Number of houses of 4 rooms	18
Number of houses of 5 rooms	15
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	44
Number of houses under construction	4
Number of occupied houses	94
Number of uninhabited houses	2

Agriculture (45 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	1
Acres of farmland in pasture	297
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	2,720
Acres of farmland under crops	398
Acres of hay crops	371
Acres of improved land in farms	696
Acres of land in farms	3,416
Acres of potatoes	16
Acres of turnips	4
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	7
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	4
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	6
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	3
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	1,215
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	542
CRN BU	4
HAY AC	371
HAY TONS	368
Number of cattle killed or sold in the past year	31
Number of chickens	746
Number of ducks	10
Number of farm occupants who own their land	85
Number of farm occupants who rent their land	2
Number of geese	24
Number of horses aged over 3 years	6
Number of milk cows	82
Number of occupants of farms	87
Number of other cattle	66
Number of oxen	53
Number of persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	45
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	17
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	23
Number of sheep	295
Number of sheep slaughtered or sold	131
Number of swine	8
Number of swine slaughtered or sold	16
OAT BU	6
PEA BU	3
POT AC	16
POT BU	1,215
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	6
Pounds of fine wool produced on farms in the past year	861
Pounds of homemade butter	7,554
Tons of hay produced in the past year	368

Other recorded variables (58 variables)

Variable	Value
A 101 200	2
A 11 50	45
A 51 100	17
BEN BU	7
BUTTER LB	7,554
CATTLE KS	31
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	125
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	170
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	295
COARSE WOOL LB	6
DUCKS	10
FAMILIES	103
FAMILIES AV SIZE	4.90
FINE WOOL LB	861
FRN CA	0
GEESE	24
HENS AND CHKN	746
HORSES OVR THREE	6
HOUSES	93
HOUSES CON	4
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	1
HOUSES FIVE RM	15
HOUSES FOUR RM	18
HOUSES ONE STRY	93
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	44
HOUSES THREE RM	13
HOUSES TWO RM	2
HOUSES UNINH	2
HOUSES W	93
INF 11 A	23
MD FEM	96
MD MALE	95
MD TOT	191
MILK COWS	82
NAME CD	Digby
OC F	2
OC P	85
OC TOT	87
OTHER HRN CATTLE	66
OTHERS	513
SHEEP	295
SHEEP KS	131
SUP AM	696
SUP FOR	2,720
SUP JV	1
SUP PAT	297
SUP SC	398
SUP TOT	3,416
SWINE	8
SWINE KS	16
TOT DWLG OCC	94
TUR AC	4
TUR BU	542
VESS AND SHAN	1
WID FEM	18
WID MALE	9
WID TOT	27
WORKING OX	53

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS031020 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS009023 — 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 1891 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). "Tiverton, Nova Scotia (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/tiverton-ns031020-1891/.