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Poll tax rolls, 1791-1793

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Archival Description

Census and poll tax

1767-1862

1.5 m of textual records (16 volumes)

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of Nova Scotia population returns (both statistical and nominal), 1767-1860; assessment rolls (poll or capitation tax), mainly 1790-1796; and returns of livestock, 1798-1817. No pre-1838 census, nor the 1851 census, survives intact. Includes, as Volume 454, Report of the Secretary of the Board of Statistics on the Census of Nova Scotia, 1861 (Halifax: Queen's Printer, 1862), 298 p.

Notes

Related records may be found in the Census records collection (RG 12).

Many census returns have been indexed or published in transcribed or tabulated form.

Retrieval no. Item Microfilm no.
RG 1 vol. no. 443Census returns and poll tax rolls, 1767-178713580
RG 1 vol. no. 444Poll tax rolls, 1791-179313580
RG 1 vol. no. 444½Poll tax rolls, 1793-1795, (1808)13580
RG 1 vol. no. 445Census returns, 1811-181813580
RG 1 vol. no. 4461827 Census13580
RG 1 vol. no. 4471827 Census13580
RG 1 vol. no. 4481838 Census (HX)13580
RG 1 vol. no. 4491838 Census (AP, CO, DI, GU, HT, KI, LU, QU, SH, YA)13581
RG 1 vol. no. 449A1838 Census, Cape Breton Island.13581
RG 1 vol. no. 449B1838 Census, Pictou County.13581
RG 1 vol. no. 4501838 Census, Sydney [Antigonish] County13581
RG 1 vol. no. 4511851 Census, Halifax City15481
RG 1 vol. no. 4521851 Census, Halifax County15481
RG 1 vol. no. 452½1851 Census, Kings County15482
RG 1 vol. no. 4531851 Census. General Abstract15483
RG 1 vol. no. 4541861 Census (official report)15483




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