Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: King's
Township 38, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township 38 was a census subdivision in King's County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 978. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.353°N, 62.801°W.
Population
In 1881, Township 38 had a population of 978: 505 male and 473 female residents. Population density was 30.5 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 38 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 88 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 169 |
| Number of families | 169 |
| Number of females | 473 |
| Number of males | 505 |
| Number of married females | 136 |
| Number of married males | 137 |
| Number of married persons | 273 |
| Number of widowed females | 24 |
| Number of widowed males | 12 |
| Number of widowed persons | 36 |
| POP TOT | 978 |
| Total population | 978 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 313 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 356 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 669 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 1 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 169 |
| Number of occupied houses | 169 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 3 |
Agriculture (23 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 912 |
| Acres of potatoes | 441 |
| Acres of wheat | 443 |
| BAR BU | 488 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 488 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 518 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 91 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 28,052 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 615 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 44 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 66,541 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 4,761 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 10,291 |
| BWT BU | 518 |
| HAY AC | 912 |
| HAY TONS | 860 |
| OAT BU | 28,052 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 44 |
| POT AC | 441 |
| POT BU | 66,541 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 860 |
| WHT AC | 443 |
| WHT SP BU | 4,761 |
Fisheries (13 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 5 |
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 137 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 62 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 501 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 40 |
| Barrels of shad produced in the past year | 1 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 961 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 5 |
| Number of fishing boats | 16 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 36 |
| Number of shoremen | 4 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 12 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 1 |
Other recorded variables (33 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 62 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 36 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 16 |
| C UNMD F | 313 |
| C UNMD M | 356 |
| C UNMD TOT | 669 |
| CD NAME | King's |
| COD DX K | 12 |
| D OCC | 169 |
| EEL XB Q | 5 |
| FEMALE | 473 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 5 |
| GRA BU | 91 |
| GSP XB Q | 137 |
| H CON | 1 |
| H INHAB | 169 |
| H UNINH | 3 |
| HAD DX K | 1 |
| MALE | 505 |
| MCK XB Q | 501 |
| MD F | 136 |
| MD M | 137 |
| MD TOT | 273 |
| NET XX F | 961 |
| NUMBER CD | 3 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 40 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 615 |
| SHD XB Q | 1 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 4 |
| TUR BU | 10,291 |
| WID F | 24 |
| WID M | 12 |
| WID TOT | 36 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE003010 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE001001 — 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 38, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-38-pe003010-1881/.