Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: King's
Georgetown Royalty, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Georgetown Royalty was a census subdivision in King's County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,118. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.197°N, 62.541°W.
Population
In 1881, Georgetown Royalty had a population of 1,118: 562 male and 556 female residents. Population density was 159.9 people per square mile.
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, Georgetown Royalty shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 92 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 195 |
| Number of families | 195 |
| Number of females | 556 |
| Number of males | 562 |
| Number of married females | 153 |
| Number of married males | 152 |
| Number of married persons | 305 |
| Number of widowed females | 39 |
| Number of widowed males | 20 |
| Number of widowed persons | 59 |
| POP TOT | 1,118 |
| Total population | 1,118 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 364 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 390 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 754 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 7 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 186 |
| Number of occupied houses | 186 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 14 |
Agriculture (25 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 565 |
| Acres of potatoes | 239 |
| Acres of wheat | 189 |
| BAR BU | 408 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 408 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 144 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 39 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 6 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 10,032 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 472 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 45 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 36,763 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 2,516 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 7,970 |
| BWT BU | 144 |
| CRN BU | 6 |
| HAY AC | 565 |
| HAY TONS | 791 |
| OAT BU | 10,032 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 45 |
| POT AC | 239 |
| POT BU | 36,763 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 791 |
| WHT AC | 189 |
| WHT SP BU | 2,516 |
Fisheries (14 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 4 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 204 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 571 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 60 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 707 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 180 |
| Number of fishing boats | 44 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 1 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 65 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 10 |
| Number of shoremen | 21 |
| Pounds of lobster canned in the past year | 200,000 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 413 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 214 |
Other recorded variables (34 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 204 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 65 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 44 |
| C UNMD F | 364 |
| C UNMD M | 390 |
| C UNMD TOT | 754 |
| CD NAME | King's |
| COD DX K | 413 |
| D OCC | 186 |
| EEL XB Q | 4 |
| FEMALE | 556 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 180 |
| GRA BU | 39 |
| H CON | 7 |
| H INHAB | 186 |
| H UNINH | 14 |
| HAD DX K | 214 |
| LOB XC P | 200,000 |
| MALE | 562 |
| MCK XB Q | 571 |
| MD F | 153 |
| MD M | 152 |
| MD TOT | 305 |
| NET XX F | 707 |
| NUMBER CD | 3 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 60 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 472 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 21 |
| TUR BU | 7,970 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 10 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 1 |
| WID F | 39 |
| WID M | 20 |
| WID TOT | 59 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE003022 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE001023 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
- Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.
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). "Georgetown Royalty, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/georgetown-royalty-pe003022-1881/.