Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: King's
Township 42, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township 42 was a census subdivision in King's County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 646. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.424°N, 62.489°W.
Population
In 1881, Township 42 had a population of 646: 312 male and 334 female residents. Population density was 17.3 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 42 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 78 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 115 |
| Number of families | 115 |
| Number of females | 334 |
| Number of males | 312 |
| Number of married females | 67 |
| Number of married males | 67 |
| Number of married persons | 134 |
| Number of widowed females | 33 |
| Number of widowed males | 11 |
| Number of widowed persons | 44 |
| POP TOT | 646 |
| Total population | 646 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 234 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 234 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 468 |
Buildings & housing (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties | 3 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 112 |
| Number of occupied houses | 115 |
Agriculture (23 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 547 |
| Acres of potatoes | 273 |
| Acres of wheat | 183 |
| BAR BU | 2,369 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 2,369 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 92 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 72 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 24,390 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 3 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 5 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 36,142 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 2,608 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 881 |
| BWT BU | 92 |
| HAY AC | 547 |
| HAY TONS | 615 |
| OAT BU | 24,390 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 5 |
| POT AC | 273 |
| POT BU | 36,142 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 615 |
| WHT AC | 183 |
| WHT SP BU | 2,608 |
Fisheries (9 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 234 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 1,228 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 684 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 49 |
| Number of fishing boats | 52 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 106 |
| Number of shoremen | 1 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 276 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 1 |
Other recorded variables (28 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 234 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 106 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 52 |
| C UNMD F | 234 |
| C UNMD M | 234 |
| C UNMD TOT | 468 |
| CD NAME | King's |
| COD DX K | 276 |
| D OCC | 115 |
| FEMALE | 334 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 49 |
| GRA BU | 72 |
| H INHAB | 112 |
| HAD DX K | 1 |
| MALE | 312 |
| MCK XB Q | 1,228 |
| MD F | 67 |
| MD M | 67 |
| MD TOT | 134 |
| NET XX F | 684 |
| NUMBER CD | 3 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 3 |
| SHAN | 3 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 1 |
| TUR BU | 881 |
| WID F | 33 |
| WID M | 11 |
| WID TOT | 44 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE003006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE001005 — 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 42, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-42-pe003006-1881/.