Township 24, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)

Township 24 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,737. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259888. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.404°N, 63.283°W.

Population

In 1881, Township 24 had a population of 2,737: 1,373 male and 1,364 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Township 24 shared boundaries with:

• Township 23
• Township 31
• Township No. 32
• Township No. 33

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 43 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 2,737 total population, 1,373 males, 1,364 females, 802 married persons, 426 families, 404 married males, 398 married females, 100 widowed persons, 67 widowed females, 33 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,835 single persons under 18, 936 single males under 18, 899 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 426 inhabited houses, 426 occupied houses, 9 uninhabited houses, 6 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 179,541 bushels of potatoes, 113,974 bushels of oats, 48,356 bushels of turnips, 16,087 bushels of spring wheat, 10,275 bushels of barley, 4,300 tons of hay, 3,496 acres of hay crops, 1,519 bushels of buckwheat, 1,276 acres of wheat, 1,086 acres of potatoes, 383 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 34 bushels of peas and beans, 32 bushels of corn, 16 bushels of other root crops. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 8,097 barrels of mackerel, 2,216 fathoms of fishing nets, 1,930 barrels of herring or alewives, 762 quintals of cod, 414 gallons of fish oil, 213 men on fishing boats, 56 fishing boats, 36 quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock, 23 shoremen, 4 barrels of eels, 1 barrels of gaspareaux. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 24,000 pounds of lobster canned — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 2 people connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 2,737 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: PE002006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_PE003005 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3259888
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_24,_Prince_Edward_Island
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_24

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1881 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "Township 24, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-24-pe002006-1881/.