Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: Prince
Township 19, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township 19 was a census subdivision in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,608. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.431°N, 63.669°W.
Population
In 1881, Township 19 had a population of 1,608: 815 male and 793 female residents. Population density was 52.8 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 19 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 90 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 | 793 |
| Number of males | 815 |
| Number of married females | 226 |
| Number of married males | 227 |
| Number of married persons | 453 |
| Number of widowed females | 33 |
| Number of widowed males | 18 |
| Number of widowed persons | 51 |
| POP TOT | 1,608 |
| Total population | 1,608 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 534 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 570 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 1,104 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties | 2 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 255 |
| Number of occupied houses | 257 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 2 |
Agriculture (27 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 2,479 |
| Acres of potatoes | 788 |
| Acres of wheat | 788 |
| BAR BU | 1,041 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 1,041 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 1,571 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 401 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 1 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 90,508 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 162 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 73 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 132,050 |
| Bushels of rye produced in the past year | 10 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 12,624 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 28,370 |
| BWT BU | 1,571 |
| CRN BU | 1 |
| HAY AC | 2,479 |
| HAY TONS | 3,571 |
| OAT BU | 90,508 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 73 |
| POT AC | 788 |
| POT BU | 132,050 |
| RYE BU | 10 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 3,571 |
| WHT AC | 788 |
| WHT SP BU | 12,624 |
Fisheries (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 2 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 515 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 1,875 |
| Barrels of oysters produced in the past year | 1,950 |
| Barrels of trout produced in the past year | 1 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 178 |
| Number of fishing boats | 55 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 87 |
| Number of shoremen | 15 |
| Pounds of lobster canned in the past year | 12,300 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 199 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 1 |
Other recorded variables (32 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 515 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 87 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 55 |
| C UNMD F | 534 |
| C UNMD M | 570 |
| C UNMD TOT | 1,104 |
| CD NAME | Prince |
| COD DX K | 199 |
| D OCC | 257 |
| EEL XB Q | 2 |
| FEMALE | 793 |
| GRA BU | 401 |
| H INHAB | 255 |
| H UNINH | 2 |
| HAD DX K | 1 |
| LOB XC P | 12,300 |
| MALE | 815 |
| MCK XB Q | 1,875 |
| MD F | 226 |
| MD M | 227 |
| MD TOT | 453 |
| NET XX F | 178 |
| NUMBER CD | 1 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 162 |
| OYS XB Q | 1,950 |
| SHAN | 2 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 15 |
| TRT XB Q | 1 |
| TUR BU | 28,370 |
| WID F | 33 |
| WID M | 18 |
| WID TOT | 51 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE001020 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE002019 — 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 19, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-19-pe001020-1881/.