Summerside, T-V, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)

Summerside, T-V was a town in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,853. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q863058. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.396°N, 63.788°W.

Population

In 1881, Summerside, T-V had a population of 2,853: 1,359 male and 1,494 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, Summerside, T-V shared boundaries with:

• Township No. 17

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 41 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 2,853 total population, 1,494 females, 1,359 males, 897 married persons, 517 families, 452 married females, 445 married males, 108 widowed persons, 85 widowed females, 23 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,848 single persons under 18, 957 single females under 18, 891 single males under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 478 inhabited houses, 478 occupied houses, 53 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 17,959 bushels of potatoes, 6,699 bushels of oats, 3,064 bushels of turnips, 1,833 bushels of spring wheat, 960 bushels of other root crops, 529 tons of hay, 335 bushels of buckwheat, 324 acres of hay crops, 106 bushels of peas and beans, 99 acres of potatoes, 99 acres of wheat, 16 bushels of barley, 11 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 8 bushels of corn. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 144 barrels of mackerel, 10 fathoms of fishing nets, 8 barrels of eels, 4 men on fishing vessels, 2 barrels of trout, 2 quintals of cod, 1 barrels of other fish, 1 fishing boats, 1 fishing vessels, 1 men on fishing boats. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 944 barrels of oysters — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 3 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 2,853 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: PE001017 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_PE002027 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q863058
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerside,_Prince_Edward_Island
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerside_(%C3%8Ele-du-Prince-%C3%89douard)

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). "Summerside, T-V, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/summerside-t-v-pe001017-1881/.