Truro Road, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Name: Truro Road (1881)
Address: Nova Scotia, CA

Truro Road was a census subdivision in Halifax (County-Comté) County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 903. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.903°N, 63.555°W.

Population

In 1881, Truro Road had a population of 903: 448 male and 455 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	998
1881	903

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, Truro Road shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 64 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	168
Number of families	168
Number of females	455
Number of males	448
Number of married females	125
Number of married males	124
Number of married persons	249
Number of widowed females	19
Number of widowed males	11
Number of widowed persons	30
POP TOT	903
Total population	903

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	311
Number of single males under 18	313
Number of single persons under 18	624

Buildings & housing (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of inhabited houses	164
Number of occupied houses	164
Number of uninhabited houses	19

Agriculture (24 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	677
Acres of potatoes	90
Acres of wheat	42
BAR BU	11
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	11
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	330
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	4
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	1,364
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	183
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	107
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	6,696
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	678
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	16,623
BWT BU	330
CRN BU	4
HAY AC	677
HAY TONS	770
OAT BU	1,364
PEA AND BEN BU	107
POT AC	90
POT BU	6,696
Tons of hay produced in the past year	770
WHT AC	42
WHT SP BU	678

Fisheries (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year	6
Fathoms of fishing nets	30

Other recorded variables (20 variables)

Variable	Value
C UNMD F	311
C UNMD M	313
C UNMD TOT	624
CD NAME	Halifax (County-Comté)
D OCC	164
FEMALE	455
GSP XB Q	6
H INHAB	164
H UNINH	19
MALE	448
MD F	125
MD M	124
MD TOT	249
NET XX F	30
NUMBER CD	10
OTHR ROOT BU	183
TUR BU	16,623
WID F	19
WID M	11
WID TOT	30

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS010016 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS010016 — 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). "Truro Road, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/truro-road-ns010016-1881/.