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Year: 1881  |  Province: Nova Scotia

Upper Stewiacke, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

Upper Stewiacke was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,552. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.268°N, 62.902°W.

Population

In 1881, Upper Stewiacke had a population of 1,552: 780 male and 772 female residents. Population density was 12.3 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18712,078
18811,552

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

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

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Upper Stewiacke shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 65 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)
VariableValue
FAM NO281
Number of families281
Number of females772
Number of males780
Number of married females239
Number of married males237
Number of married persons476
Number of widowed females35
Number of widowed males13
Number of widowed persons48
POP TOT1,552
Total population1,552
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18498
Number of single males under 18530
Number of single persons under 181,028
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
VariableValue
Number of houses under construction1
Number of inhabited houses270
Number of occupied houses270
Number of uninhabited houses4
Agriculture (27 variables)
VariableValue
Acres of hay crops5,389
Acres of potatoes241
Acres of wheat335
BAR BU707
Bushels of barley produced in the past year707
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year3,857
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year40
Bushels of corn produced in the past year2
Bushels of oats produced in the past year15,308
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year1,444
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year232
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year41,468
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year3,738
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year9,403
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year6
BWT BU3,857
CRN BU2
HAY AC5,389
HAY TONS5,535
OAT BU15,308
PEA AND BEN BU232
POT AC241
POT BU41,468
Tons of hay produced in the past year5,535
WHT AC335
WHT SP BU3,738
WHT WTR BU6
Other recorded variables (19 variables)
VariableValue
C UNMD F498
C UNMD M530
C UNMD TOT1,028
D OCC270
FEMALE772
GRA BU40
H CON1
H INHAB270
H UNINH4
MALE780
MD F239
MD M237
MD TOT476
NUMBER CD19
OTHR ROOT BU1,444
TUR BU9,403
WID F35
WID M13
WID TOT48

Identifiers

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). "Upper Stewiacke, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/upper-stewiacke-ns019019-1881/.