Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: Prince
Township 12, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township 12 was a census subdivision in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 843. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.618°N, 63.941°W.
Population
In 1881, Township 12 had a population of 843: 449 male and 394 female residents. Population density was 23.6 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, Township 12 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 | 144 |
| Number of families | 144 |
| Number of females | 394 |
| Number of males | 449 |
| Number of married females | 137 |
| Number of married males | 135 |
| Number of married persons | 272 |
| Number of widowed females | 16 |
| Number of widowed males | 6 |
| Number of widowed persons | 22 |
| POP TOT | 843 |
| Total population | 843 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 241 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 308 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 549 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 1 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 143 |
| Number of occupied houses | 143 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 7 |
Agriculture (27 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 583 |
| Acres of potatoes | 173 |
| Acres of wheat | 279 |
| BAR BU | 793 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 793 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 548 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 34 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 15 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 14,158 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 99 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 37 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 22,908 |
| Bushels of rye produced in the past year | 8 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 3,357 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 1,943 |
| BWT BU | 548 |
| CRN BU | 15 |
| HAY AC | 583 |
| HAY TONS | 585 |
| OAT BU | 14,158 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 37 |
| POT AC | 173 |
| POT BU | 22,908 |
| RYE BU | 8 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 585 |
| WHT AC | 279 |
| WHT SP BU | 3,357 |
Fisheries (13 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 20 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 244 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 262 |
| Barrels of oysters produced in the past year | 988 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 415 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 32 |
| Number of fishing boats | 16 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 3 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 22 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 3 |
| Number of shoremen | 1 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 121 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 11 |
Other recorded variables (33 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 244 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 22 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 16 |
| C UNMD F | 241 |
| C UNMD M | 308 |
| C UNMD TOT | 549 |
| CD NAME | Prince |
| COD DX K | 121 |
| D OCC | 143 |
| EEL XB Q | 20 |
| FEMALE | 394 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 32 |
| GRA BU | 34 |
| H CON | 1 |
| H INHAB | 143 |
| H UNINH | 7 |
| HAD DX K | 11 |
| MALE | 449 |
| MCK XB Q | 262 |
| MD F | 137 |
| MD M | 135 |
| MD TOT | 272 |
| NET XX F | 415 |
| NUMBER CD | 1 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 99 |
| OYS XB Q | 988 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 1 |
| TUR BU | 1,943 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 3 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 3 |
| WID F | 16 |
| WID M | 6 |
| WID TOT | 22 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE001012 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE002012 — 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). "Township 12, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-12-pe001012-1881/.