King's, Prince Edward Island

King's was a Census Division in Prince Edward Island as recorded in the 1871–1891 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. This CD is grounded to Wikidata Q1742133.

Population trajectory across census years

Aggregate population summed from constituent Census Subdivisions in this Census Division each year. Where the published 1851–1921 census volumes report a CD-level total, the figures should match within rounding; for cities split into wards, the per-CSD sum may diverge from the published CD aggregate.

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1871 census

• Georgetown Royalty wd (pop 1,056)
• Township 38 wd (pop 946)
• Township 40 wd (pop 887)
• Township 41 wd (pop 1,077)
• Township 42 wd (pop 642)
• Township 43 wd (pop 917)
• Township 44 wd (pop 1,054)
• Township 46 wd (pop 860)
• Township 47 wd (pop 1,057)
• Township 51 wd (pop 1,093)
• Township 52 wd (pop 1,044)
• Township 54 wd (pop 845)
• Township 55 wd (pop 1,404)
• Township 56 wd (pop 856)
• Township 59 wd (pop 1,604)
• Township 66 wd (pop 375)
• Township No. 39 wd (pop 781)
• Township No. 45 wd (pop 1,622)
• Township No. 53 wd (pop 1,120)
• Township No. 61 wd (pop 1,298)
• Township No. 63 wd (pop 1,029)
• Township No. 64 wd (pop 1,493)

1881 census

• Georgetown Royalty wd (pop 1,118)
• Township 38 wd (pop 978)
• Township 40 wd (pop 991)
• Township 41 wd (pop 1,261)
• Township 42 wd (pop 646)
• Township 43 wd (pop 1,076)
• Township 44 wd (pop 1,425)
• Township 46 wd (pop 1,095)
• Township 47 wd (pop 1,131)
• Township 51 wd (pop 1,106)
• Township 52 wd (pop 1,205)
• Township 54 wd (pop 915)
• Township 55 wd (pop 1,470)
• Township 56 wd (pop 941)
• Township 59 wd (pop 1,782)
• Township 66 wd (pop 399)
• Township No. 39 wd (pop 847)
• Township No. 45 wd (pop 2,079)
• Township No. 53 wd (pop 1,225)
• Township No. 61 wd (pop 1,527)
• Township No. 63 wd (pop 1,243)
• Township No. 64 wd (pop 1,973)

1891 census

• Georgetown Royalty wd (pop 1,060)
• Township 38 wd (pop 975)
• Township 40 wd (pop 1,026)
• Township 41 wd (pop 1,199)
• Township 42 wd (pop 655)
• Township 43 wd (pop 1,068)
• Township 44 wd (pop 1,291)
• Township 46 wd (pop 1,075)
• Township 47 wd (pop 1,139)
• Township 51 wd (pop 1,110)
• Township 52 wd (pop 1,429)
• Township 54 wd (pop 1,028)
• Township 55 wd (pop 1,337)
• Township 56 wd (pop 988)
• Township 59 wd (pop 1,786)
• Township 66 wd (pop 345)
• Township No. 39 wd (pop 957)
• Township No. 45 wd (pop 1,997)
• Township No. 53 wd (pop 1,229)
• Township No. 61 wd (pop 1,525)
• Township No. 63 wd (pop 1,494)
• Township No. 64 wd (pop 1,920)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

• Split off from Prince Edward Island in 1871.
• Split into Kings in 1901.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_PE_King's
• Wikidata: Q1742133
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_County,_Prince_Edward_Island
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Kings_(%C3%8Ele-du-Prince-%C3%89douard)

Sources

Census Division boundaries derived from the Canadian Peoples / TCP 1851–1921 Census Subdivision boundary files (NAME_CD_<year> attributes, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan). Constituent-CSD memberships use the P10_falls_within CIDOC-CRM relationships emitted by the spatial CIDOC builder. Wikidata grounding for Census Divisions performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.