Census Information
- 1857 Census divided Greenspond into 3 sections, Greenspond Tickle, Ship Island, and Greenspond Harbour Main Island. In this chart, only the statistics for Greenspond Main Island is used.
- 1869 Census combined Greenspond and Pond Head.
| 1836 | 1845 | 1857 | 1869 | 1874 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| population | 751 | 1076 | 643 | 1073 | 1268 |
| inhabited houses | 126 | 135 | 92 | 158 | 190 |
| families | - | - | 112 | 181 | 220 |
| Church of England | 704 | 987 | 621 | 870 | 733 |
| Roman Catholics | 45 | 89 | 22 | 63 | 75 |
| Wesleyan/Methodists | - | - | - | 140 | 458 |
| Congregationalists | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| attending school | 50 | - | 291 | 60 | 48 |
| can read/write | - | - | - | 489 | 512 |
| clergy | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Doctor/Lawyer | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Mechanics | - | - | 14 | - | - |
| merchants/traders | - | - | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| value of imports (pounds) | - | - | 8,639 | - | - |
| exports | - | - | 23,996 | - | - |
| people catching/curing fish | - | - | 340 | 316 | 427 |
| seamen/fishermen | - | - | 96 | 3 | 142 |
| total boats | 60 | 70 | 39 | 52 | 46 |
| boats built | - | - | 4 | - | - |
| sealing vessels | - | 12 | 9 | 7 | 19 |
| men on board | - | - | 209 | 68 | 138 |
| tonnage | - | 846 | 580 | 269 | 719 |
| nets/seines | - | 36 | 80 | 112 | 197 |
| sealing nets | - | 430 | 150 | 87 | 131 |
| cod fish cured (qtls) | - | - | 3990 | - | 11218 |
| salmon caught/cured (tres) | - | - | 5 | - | 11¾ |
| seals | - | - | 8112 | - | - |
| fishing rooms in use | - | - | 22 | 25 | 32 |
| stores/barns/outhouses | - | - | 60 | 45 | 85 |
| barrels of potatoes produced | 1365 (busl) | 398 | 257 | 1188 | 896 |
| barrels of turnip | - | - | 25 | 91 | 15 |
| tons of hay | 2.5 | 2 | 4 | - | 18¼ |
| bushels of wheat/barley | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| cattle/cows | 3 | - | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| hogs | 24 | - | - | - | - |
| sheep | 4 | - | 15 | 12 | 56 |
| swine/goats | - | - | 198 | 102 | 289 |
- Census Information for Ship Island, an island just off of "main" Greenspond Island.
| 1857 | 1869 | 1874 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| population | 161 | 142 | 165 |
| inhabited houses | 16 | 20 | |
| families | 25 | 22 | 24 |
| can read/write | - | 61 | 62 |
| attending school | - | 16 | - |
| Church of England | 154 | 125 | 145 |
| Catholic | 1 | 63 | 4 |
| Wesleyan | - | 10 | 9 |
| Free Kirk | 6 | 7 | 7 |
| mechanics | 1 | - | - |
| merchants/traders | 2 | 1 | - |
| people catching/curing fish | 120 | 37 | 69 |
| seamen/fishermen | 43 | 3 | 23 |
| total boats | 19 | 2 | 4 |
| boats built | 2 | - | - |
| nets/seines | 53 | 32 | 35 |
| seal nets | 68 | 49 | 28 |
| vessels is seal fishery | 3 | 7 | 4 |
| men on board | 102 | 52 | 33 |
| tonnage | 274 | 170 | 142 |
| cod fish cured (qtls) | 1940 | - | 2020 |
| salmon caught (tres) | 5 | - | 6 |
| herring cured (bls) | 40 | - | - |
| seals caught | 7075 | - | - |
| fishing rooms in use | 12 | 5 | 7 |
| stores/barns/outhouses | 14 | 14 | 16 |
| barrels of potatoes produced | 126 | 162 | 82 |
| barrels of turnip produced | 19 | 24 | - |
| sheep | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| swine/goats | 19 | 33 | 27 |
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