Census, Assessment and Poll Tax Records 1767-1838

The database presented here brings together an assortment of early census, property assessment, and poll tax records, providing a total of 69,807 personal names. None of the census, assessment or poll tax records presented here is complete for the province - even if they claimed to be so at the time. None of the individual returns is complete internally either; people and households were overlooked, and sections of communities were undoubtedly missed.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"novascotia-ca/census-assessment-and-poll-tax-records-17671838-ujzw-3aqh\".\"census_assessment_and_poll_tax_records_17671838\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.