Township 33, Prince Edward Island (1901 census)

Name: Township 33 (1901)
Address: Prince Edward Island, CA

Township 33 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 1,120. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259902. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.358°N, 63.172°W.

Population

In 1901, Township 33 had a population of 1,120: 563 male and 557 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1901	1,120
1911	991
1921	981

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD became part of Township 33, 1911 (78.9% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, Township 33 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1901

The 1901 census recorded 12 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1901). This community's record includes 1,120 total population, 563 males, 557 females, 362 single males, 336 single females, 214 families, 185 married females, 185 married males, 36 widowed females, 16 widowed males. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Buildings & housing (1901). This community's record includes 213 houses. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Agriculture (1901). This community's record includes 24,641 total area (acres). (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 20 people connected to this place who were alive in 1901, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Richard Jacob Heartz	1816–1908	died here
Lemuel Cambridge Owen	1822–1912	died here
Henry Jones Cundall	1833–1916	died here
Alice Jane Sterling	1839–1921	died here
James-Charles McDonald	1840–1912	died here
Patrick Blake	1846–1909	died here
William Lawson Cotton	1848–1928	died here
Charles Dalton	1850–1933	died here
Benjamin Armitage Bremner	1851–1938	died here
Alexander Bannerman Warburton	1852–1929	died here
James Simpson	1853–1920	died here
Arthur Peters	1854–1908	died here
William Snodgrass Stewart	1855–1938	died here
Charles Benjamin Chappell	1857–1931	died here
Stephen Rice Jenkins	1858–1929	died here
Benjamin Charles Prowse	1862–1930	died here
D. A. (Donald Alexander) MacKinnon	1863–1928	died here
Joseph-Octave Arsenault	1866–1918	died here
Samuel Napier Robertson	1869–1937	died here
Walter Maxfield Lea	1874–1936	died here

Identifiers

TCP UID: PE135002 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_PE003010 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q3259902
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_33,_Prince_Edward_Island
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_33_(%C3%8Ele-du-Prince-%C3%89douard)

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1901 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 33, Prince Edward Island (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-33-pe135002-1901/.