The migration of population in and out of the Maritime Provinces has been a central concern during much of the last two centuries. We think that achieving a deeper understanding of migration dynamics will require much finer data and greater contextuality than currently available. In the medium-term, our geo-genealogy project will start generating this data. In the meantime, we are not without any resources.
We have taken scans of a table of the populations for towns and urban centres in Atlantic Canada for the census decades, 1871-1991. While the aggregate population numbers at a provincial or national level are readily available, it is harder to root out the numbers at the local levels.
We intend to transcribe the table and format it as a database, but are making it available now for review and analysis: Atlantic Urban Population (3.91MB).
Anna Leonowens is known in Nova Scotia as one of the organizers of the Victoria School of Art (now NSCAD University) in 1887. She subsequently became involved in organizing the Women's Suffrage Association, where she became the first President. Although Anna was not to live to see it, the political coalition behind women's suffrage was eventually successful with the passing of the Nova Scotia Franchise Act of 26 April, 1918.
