Tracadie, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Tracadie was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,174. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3536141. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.638°N, 61.583°W.

Population

In 1881, Tracadie had a population of 1,174: 585 male and 589 female residents.

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Earlier boundary forms

• In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Harbor Bouche, 1871 (44.4% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Tracadie shared boundaries with:

• Harbour au Bouche
• Heatherton
• Tracadie

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 33 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,174 total population, 589 females, 585 males, 332 married persons, 200 families, 166 married females, 166 married males, 57 widowed persons, 42 widowed females, 15 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 785 single persons under 18, 404 single males under 18, 381 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 192 occupied houses, 183 inhabited houses, 17 uninhabited houses, 9 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 3 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 25,327 bushels of potatoes, 7,413 bushels of oats, 3,752 bushels of turnips, 2,605 bushels of spring wheat, 2,428 tons of hay, 1,843 acres of hay crops, 1,380 bushels of barley, 259 acres of potatoes, 237 acres of wheat, 139 bushels of buckwheat, 98 bushels of peas and beans, 60 bushels of rye, 40 bushels of other root crops, 25 bushels of corn, 2 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,174 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: NS021009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS021009 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3536141
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracadie,_Nova_Scotia
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracadie_(Nouvelle-%C3%89cosse)

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). "Tracadie, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/tracadie-ns021009-1881/.