Township 44, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)

Township 44 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,425. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259919. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.408°N, 62.325°W.

Population

In 1881, Township 44 had a population of 1,425: 706 male and 719 female residents.

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 44 shared boundaries with:

• Township 43
• Township No. 45

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 37 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,425 total population, 719 females, 706 males, 383 married persons, 228 families, 192 married males, 191 married females, 56 widowed persons, 41 widowed females, 15 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 986 single persons under 18, 499 single males under 18, 487 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 228 inhabited houses, 228 occupied houses, 2 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 63,257 bushels of potatoes, 33,735 bushels of oats, 5,590 bushels of turnips, 4,717 bushels of spring wheat, 2,534 bushels of barley, 1,328 tons of hay, 1,102 acres of hay crops, 458 acres of potatoes, 381 acres of wheat, 82 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 31 bushels of buckwheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 1,416 barrels of mackerel, 878 fathoms of fishing nets, 852 quintals of cod, 212 barrels of herring or alewives, 94 men on fishing boats, 62 fishing boats, 7 men on fishing vessels, 7 quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock, 1 gallons of fish oil, 1 fishing vessels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,425 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: PE003004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_PE001007 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3259919
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_44,_Prince_Edward_Island
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_44

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 44, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-44-pe003004-1881/.