Inverness County, Nova Scotia


Inverness County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Its territory is almost contiguous with the Municipality of Inverness County but excludes the town of Port Hawkesbury and Miꞌkmaq reserves.

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. Agriculture and fishing dominated the economy with exports of butter and cattle to Newfoundland and Halifax for most of the nineteenth century. 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.
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.
Inverness County was established within the boundaries of the Northwestern District of Cape Breton Island.

Demographics

As a census division in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Inverness County recorded a population of 17,235 living in 7,351 of its 9,876 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 17,947. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2016.
Forming the majority of the Inverness County census division, the Municipality of the County of Inverness recorded a population of 13,190 living in 5,740 of its 8,052 total private dwellings in the 2016 Census of Population, a change of from its 2011 population of 13,781. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2016.
Population trend
CensusPopulationChange
201617,2354.0%
201117,9475.7%
200619,0364.5%
200119,9374.7%
199620,9183.2%
199121,6201.5%
198621,9461.8%
198122,337N/A
194120,573
193121,055
192123,808
191125,571
190124,353
189125,779
188125,651
187123,415N/A

Native language
LanguagePopulationPct
English only14,36081.31%
French only2,31513.11%
Non-official languages8254.67%
Multiple responses1650.93%

Ethnic groups
Ethnic OriginPopulationPct
Scottish9,36549.9%
Canadian6,46034.5%
French4,62024.6%
English3,88020.7%
Irish3,68019.6%
Acadian1,1806.3%
North American Indian9104.9%
German5803.1%
Dutch 5553.0%

Communities

;Towns
;Reserves
;County municipality and county subdivisions
Highways and numbered routes that run through the county, including external routes that start or finish at the county limits:
Parks:
GOLF - in issue 1-2020 of Golf Digest magazine's rating of the top 100 golf courses in the world, CABOT CLIFFS was rated number 11 and CABOT LINKS was rated 35th