Inverness_County,_Nova_Scotia

Inverness County, Nova Scotia

Inverness County, Nova Scotia

County in Nova Scotia, Canada


Inverness County is an historical county and census division of Nova Scotia, Canada located on Cape Breton Island. Local government is provided by the Municipality of the County of Inverness, the town of Port Hawkesbury and the Whycocomagh 2 Waycobah First Nation reserve.

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History

Established as the County of Juste au Corps in 1835, Inverness County was given its present name in 1837. It was named after Sir Cameron Inverness of Scotland, the land from which many of the early settlers came.[3] Agriculture and fishing dominated the economy with exports of butter and cattle to Newfoundland and Halifax for most of the nineteenth century.[4] The construction of the Inverness and Richmond Railway in 1901, and the subsequent opening of coal mines at Port Hood, Mabou, and Inverness, created the "only home market" local farmers had ever had.[5]

The boundaries of Inverness County had been previously defined when Cape Breton Island was divided by statute into three districts in 1823. In 1996, the county was amalgamated into a single municipality with the exception of Port Hawkesbury.

Demographics

As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Inverness County had a population of 17,346 living in 7,693 of its 9,737 total private dwellings, a change of 0.6% from its 2016 population of 17,235. With a land area of 3,817.61 km2 (1,473.99 sq mi), it had a population density of 4.5/km2 (11.8/sq mi) in 2021.[6]

Forming the majority of the Inverness County census division, the Municipality of the County of Inverness, including its Subdivisions A, B, and C, had a population of 13,239 living in 5,989 of its 7,914 total private dwellings, a change of 0.5% from its 2016 population of 13,170. With a land area of 3,795.34 km2 (1,465.39 sq mi), it had a population density of 3.5/km2 (9.0/sq mi) in 2021.[7]

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References

  1. Statistics Canada Population and dwelling counts, for Canada and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2021 census - 100% data
  2. Nova Scotia Statutes (PDF). Nova Scotia Legislature. 1837. p. 26. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  3. Robert A. MacKinnon, "The Historical Geography of Agriculture in Nova Scotia, 1851-1951", Ph.D. dissertation, University of British Columbia, 1991.
  4. Canada, House of Commons, Official Report of Evidence taken During Session of 1921 Respecting the Future Fuel Supply of Canada (Ottawa, 1921), 643-644.
  5. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census

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