Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: King's
Township 40, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township 40 was a census subdivision in King's County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 991. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.392°N, 62.659°W.
Population
In 1881, Township 40 had a population of 991: 488 male and 503 female residents. Population density was 30.4 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 40 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 | 167 |
| Number of families | 167 |
| Number of females | 503 |
| Number of males | 488 |
| Number of married females | 142 |
| Number of married males | 142 |
| Number of married persons | 284 |
| Number of widowed females | 27 |
| Number of widowed males | 14 |
| Number of widowed persons | 41 |
| POP TOT | 991 |
| Total population | 991 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 334 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 332 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 666 |
Buildings & housing (2 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of inhabited houses | 167 |
| Number of occupied houses | 167 |
Agriculture (25 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 991 |
| Acres of potatoes | 411 |
| Acres of wheat | 475 |
| BAR BU | 1,560 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 1,560 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 136 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 98 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 2 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 31,976 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 15 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 55 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 60,699 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 5,755 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 5,729 |
| BWT BU | 136 |
| CRN BU | 2 |
| HAY AC | 991 |
| HAY TONS | 1,149 |
| OAT BU | 31,976 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 55 |
| POT AC | 411 |
| POT BU | 60,699 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,149 |
| WHT AC | 475 |
| WHT SP BU | 5,755 |
Fisheries (15 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 2 |
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 183 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 14 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 300 |
| Barrels of oysters produced in the past year | 3 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 12 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 2,346 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 13 |
| Number of fishing boats | 34 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 1 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 41 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 6 |
| Number of shoremen | 3 |
| Pounds of lobster canned in the past year | 100,000 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 171 |
Other recorded variables (33 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 14 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 41 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 34 |
| C UNMD F | 334 |
| C UNMD M | 332 |
| C UNMD TOT | 666 |
| CD NAME | King's |
| COD DX K | 171 |
| D OCC | 167 |
| EEL XB Q | 2 |
| FEMALE | 503 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 13 |
| GRA BU | 98 |
| GSP XB Q | 183 |
| H INHAB | 167 |
| LOB XC P | 100,000 |
| MALE | 488 |
| MCK XB Q | 300 |
| MD F | 142 |
| MD M | 142 |
| MD TOT | 284 |
| NET XX F | 2,346 |
| NUMBER CD | 3 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 15 |
| OYS XB Q | 3 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 3 |
| SLM XB Q | 12 |
| TUR BU | 5,729 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 6 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 1 |
| WID F | 27 |
| WID M | 14 |
| WID TOT | 41 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE003008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE001003 — 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 40, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-40-pe003008-1881/.