Nova Scotia Marriage Registrations from 1945 to 1946

Enhanced marriage registrations data from 1945-1946 resulted from the Transcribe Nova Scotia project. The Nova Scotia Archives’ collaborative online workspace allows public participation in enhancing access to archival collections documenting over 300 years of history. The dataset is provided by the Government of Nova Scotia under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Historical demographic analysis based on marriage registration data
• Named entity recognition for extracting personal names and locations from transcribed text
• Genealogical research linking family records across time
• Training NLP models on historical document structure and language
• Studying post-World War II social patterns in Nova Scotia based on marriage trends

Strengths

• Data covers a specific two-year period (1945-1946)
• Enhanced through a public transcription project (Transcribe Nova Scotia)
• Part of archival collections documenting over 300 years of Nova Scotia history

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Government of Nova Scotia | Gouvernment de la Nouvelle-Écosse

Collection Method

Enhanced via the Transcribe Nova Scotia collaborative online workspace

Time Range

1945-1946

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:30:49.958184

Geography

Nova Scotia, Canada