Queen's, Prince Edward Island

Queen'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 Q2006290.

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

• Charlottetown Royalty (pop 8,807)
• Township No. 20 wd (pop 1,245)
• Township No. 21 wd (pop 1,569)
• Township No. 22 wd (pop 1,411)
• Township No. 23 wd (pop 1,804)
• Township No. 24 wd (pop 2,356)
• Township No. 29 wd (pop 1,957)
• Township No. 30 wd (pop 1,430)
• Township No. 31 wd (pop 1,278)
• Township No. 32 wd (pop 1,276)
• Township No. 33 wd (pop 1,219)
• Township No. 34 wd (pop 1,387)
• Township No. 35 wd (pop 1,080)
• Township No. 36 wd (pop 1,530)
• Township No. 37 wd (pop 1,355)
• Township No. 48 wd (pop 1,412)
• Township No. 49 wd (pop 1,661)
• Township No. 50 wd (pop 1,511)
• Township No. 57 wd (pop 1,934)
• Township No. 58 wd (pop 1,258)
• Township No. 60 wd (pop 961)
• Township No. 62 wd (pop 952)
• Township No. 65 wd (pop 1,746)
• Township No. 67 wd (pop 1,435)

1881 census

• Charlottetown Royalty (pop 11,485)
• Township No. 20 wd (pop 1,419)
• Township No. 21 wd (pop 1,871)
• Township No. 22 wd (pop 1,556)
• Township No. 23 wd (pop 1,903)
• Township No. 24 wd (pop 2,737)
• Township No. 29 wd (pop 2,096)
• Township No. 30 wd (pop 1,530)
• Township No. 31 wd (pop 1,493)
• Township No. 32 wd (pop 1,313)
• Township No. 33 wd (pop 1,332)
• Township No. 34 wd (pop 1,384)
• Township No. 35 wd (pop 1,116)
• Township No. 36 wd (pop 1,263)
• Township No. 37 wd (pop 1,675)
• Township No. 48 wd (pop 1,506)
• Township No. 49 wd (pop 1,731)
• Township No. 50 wd (pop 1,501)
• Township No. 57 wd (pop 2,085)
• Township No. 58 wd (pop 1,343)
• Township No. 60 wd (pop 1,064)
• Township No. 62 wd (pop 1,046)
• Township No. 65 wd (pop 1,865)
• Township No. 67 wd (pop 1,797)

1891 census

• Charlottetown Royalty (pop 11,373)
• Township No. 20 wd (pop 1,325)
• Township No. 21 wd (pop 1,700)
• Township No. 22 wd (pop 1,466)
• Township No. 23 wd (pop 1,835)
• Township No. 24 wd (pop 2,615)
• Township No. 29 wd (pop 1,970)
• Township No. 30 wd (pop 1,417)
• Township No. 31 wd (pop 1,576)
• Township No. 32 wd (pop 1,214)
• Township No. 33 wd (pop 1,279)
• Township No. 34 wd (pop 1,317)
• Township No. 35 wd (pop 1,089)
• Township No. 36 wd (pop 1,253)
• Township No. 37 wd (pop 1,395)
• Township No. 48 wd (pop 1,355)
• Township No. 49 wd (pop 1,543)
• Township No. 50 wd (pop 1,376)
• Township No. 57 wd (pop 2,001)
• Township No. 58 wd (pop 1,246)
• Township No. 60 wd (pop 971)
• Township No. 62 wd (pop 1,085)
• Township No. 65 wd (pop 1,721)
• Township No. 67 wd (pop 1,853)

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 Queens East, Queens West in 1901.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_PE_Queen's
• Wikidata: Q2006290
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_County,_Prince_Edward_Island
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Queens_(%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.