Year: 1881
| Province: Nova Scotia
| County: Digby
Weymouth, Nova Scotia (1881 census)
Weymouth was a census subdivision in Digby County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,784. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.422°N, 65.933°W.
Population
In 1881, Weymouth had a population of 1,784: 890 male and 894 female residents. Population density was 66.1 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, Weymouth shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 92 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 336 |
| Number of families | 336 |
| Number of females | 894 |
| Number of males | 890 |
| Number of married females | 295 |
| Number of married males | 298 |
| Number of married persons | 593 |
| Number of widowed females | 52 |
| Number of widowed males | 23 |
| Number of widowed persons | 75 |
| POP TOT | 1,784 |
| Total population | 1,784 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 547 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 569 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 1,116 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 5 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 328 |
| Number of occupied houses | 328 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 21 |
Agriculture (27 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,760 |
| Acres of potatoes | 119 |
| Acres of wheat | 41 |
| BAR BU | 629 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 629 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 1,341 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 2 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 233 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 1,646 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 1,862 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 329 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 23,290 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 1,341 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 6,532 |
| Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year | 9 |
| BWT BU | 1,341 |
| CRN BU | 233 |
| HAY AC | 1,760 |
| HAY TONS | 1,868 |
| OAT BU | 1,646 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 329 |
| POT AC | 119 |
| POT BU | 23,290 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,868 |
| WHT AC | 41 |
| WHT SP BU | 1,341 |
| WHT WTR BU | 9 |
Fisheries (13 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 2 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 79 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 125 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 136 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 305 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 39 |
| Number of fishing boats | 31 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 1 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 58 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 2 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 51 |
| Quintals of fascines fish produced in the past year | 8 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 286 |
Other recorded variables (33 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 79 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 58 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 31 |
| C UNMD F | 547 |
| C UNMD M | 569 |
| C UNMD TOT | 1,116 |
| CD NAME | Digby |
| COD DX K | 51 |
| D OCC | 328 |
| EEL XB Q | 2 |
| FASCINE FISH Q | 8 |
| FEMALE | 894 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 39 |
| GRA BU | 2 |
| H CON | 5 |
| H INHAB | 328 |
| H UNINH | 21 |
| HAD DX K | 286 |
| MALE | 890 |
| MCK XB Q | 125 |
| MD F | 295 |
| MD M | 298 |
| MD TOT | 593 |
| NET XX F | 305 |
| NUMBER CD | 15 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 136 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 1,862 |
| TUR BU | 6,532 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 2 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 1 |
| WID F | 52 |
| WID M | 23 |
| WID TOT | 75 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS015008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS009025 — 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). "Weymouth, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/weymouth-ns015008-1881/.