Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: Prince
Township 17, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township 17 was a census subdivision in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,647. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.425°N, 63.861°W.
Population
In 1881, Township 17 had a population of 1,647: 811 male and 836 female residents. Population density was 46.2 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 17 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 80 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 264 |
| Number of families | 264 |
| Number of females | 836 |
| Number of males | 811 |
| Number of married females | 260 |
| Number of married males | 257 |
| Number of married persons | 517 |
| Number of widowed females | 22 |
| Number of widowed males | 18 |
| Number of widowed persons | 40 |
| POP TOT | 1,647 |
| Total population | 1,647 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 554 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 536 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 1,090 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 3 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 264 |
| Number of occupied houses | 264 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 4 |
Agriculture (25 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 2,225 |
| Acres of potatoes | 615 |
| Acres of wheat | 836 |
| BAR BU | 1,431 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 1,431 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 2,758 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 432 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 209 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 57,971 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 426 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 53 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 106,085 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 11,625 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 29,599 |
| BWT BU | 2,758 |
| CRN BU | 209 |
| HAY AC | 2,225 |
| HAY TONS | 2,900 |
| OAT BU | 57,971 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 53 |
| POT AC | 615 |
| POT BU | 106,085 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 2,900 |
| WHT AC | 836 |
| WHT SP BU | 11,625 |
Fisheries (8 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 1 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 144 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 102 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 80 |
| Barrels of oysters produced in the past year | 4,683 |
| Number of fishing boats | 74 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 116 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 21 |
Other recorded variables (28 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 144 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 116 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 74 |
| C UNMD F | 554 |
| C UNMD M | 536 |
| C UNMD TOT | 1,090 |
| CD NAME | Prince |
| COD DX K | 21 |
| D OCC | 264 |
| FEMALE | 836 |
| GRA BU | 432 |
| GSP XB Q | 1 |
| H CON | 3 |
| H INHAB | 264 |
| H UNINH | 4 |
| MALE | 811 |
| MCK XB Q | 102 |
| MD F | 260 |
| MD M | 257 |
| MD TOT | 517 |
| NUMBER CD | 1 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 80 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 426 |
| OYS XB Q | 4,683 |
| TUR BU | 29,599 |
| WID F | 22 |
| WID M | 18 |
| WID TOT | 40 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE001018 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE002017 — 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 17, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-17-pe001018-1881/.