Windsor Road, Nova Scotia (1881 census)

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

Windsor Road was a census subdivision in Halifax (County-Comté) County, Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 965. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.846°N, 63.681°W.

Population

In 1881, Windsor Road had a population of 965: 494 male and 471 female residents. Population density was 10.4 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	850
1881	965

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, Windsor Road shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 68 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	175
Number of families	175
Number of females	471
Number of males	494
Number of married females	139
Number of married males	138
Number of married persons	277
Number of widowed females	27
Number of widowed males	17
Number of widowed persons	44
POP TOT	965
Total population	965

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	305
Number of single males under 18	339
Number of single persons under 18	644

Buildings & housing (5 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties	1
Number of houses under construction	1
Number of inhabited houses	172
Number of occupied houses	173
Number of uninhabited houses	10

Agriculture (26 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	1,037
Acres of potatoes	151
Acres of wheat	50
BAR BU	114
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	114
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	226
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	25
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	3,112
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	891
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	124
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	12,443
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	303
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	6,565
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year	12
BWT BU	226
CRN BU	25
HAY AC	1,037
HAY TONS	1,314
OAT BU	3,112
PEA AND BEN BU	124
POT AC	151
POT BU	12,443
Tons of hay produced in the past year	1,314
WHT AC	50
WHT SP BU	303
WHT WTR BU	12

Fisheries (1 variable)

Variable	Value
Barrels of trout produced in the past year	2

Other recorded variables (21 variables)

Variable	Value
C UNMD F	305
C UNMD M	339
C UNMD TOT	644
CD NAME	Halifax (County-Comté)
D OCC	173
FEMALE	471
H CON	1
H INHAB	172
H UNINH	10
MALE	494
MD F	139
MD M	138
MD TOT	277
NUMBER CD	10
OTHR ROOT BU	891
SHAN	1
TRT XB Q	2
TUR BU	6,565
WID F	27
WID M	17
WID TOT	44

Identifiers

TCP UID: NS010015 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NS010015 — 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). "Windsor Road, Nova Scotia (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/windsor-road-ns010015-1881/.