Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: King's
Township 44, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township 44 was a census subdivision in King's County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,425. 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 density was 47.2 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 44 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 76 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 228 |
| Number of families | 228 |
| Number of females | 719 |
| Number of males | 706 |
| Number of married females | 191 |
| Number of married males | 192 |
| Number of married persons | 383 |
| Number of widowed females | 41 |
| Number of widowed males | 15 |
| Number of widowed persons | 56 |
| POP TOT | 1,425 |
| Total population | 1,425 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 487 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 499 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 986 |
Buildings & housing (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of inhabited houses | 228 |
| Number of occupied houses | 228 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 2 |
Agriculture (20 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,102 |
| Acres of potatoes | 458 |
| Acres of wheat | 381 |
| BAR BU | 2,534 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 2,534 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 31 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 82 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 33,735 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 63,257 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 4,717 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 5,590 |
| BWT BU | 31 |
| HAY AC | 1,102 |
| HAY TONS | 1,328 |
| OAT BU | 33,735 |
| POT AC | 458 |
| POT BU | 63,257 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,328 |
| WHT AC | 381 |
| WHT SP BU | 4,717 |
Fisheries (10 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 212 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 1,416 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 878 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 1 |
| Number of fishing boats | 62 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 1 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 94 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 7 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 852 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 7 |
Other recorded variables (28 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 212 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 94 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 62 |
| C UNMD F | 487 |
| C UNMD M | 499 |
| C UNMD TOT | 986 |
| CD NAME | King's |
| COD DX K | 852 |
| D OCC | 228 |
| FEMALE | 719 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 1 |
| GRA BU | 82 |
| H INHAB | 228 |
| H UNINH | 2 |
| HAD DX K | 7 |
| MALE | 706 |
| MCK XB Q | 1,416 |
| MD F | 191 |
| MD M | 192 |
| MD TOT | 383 |
| NET XX F | 878 |
| NUMBER CD | 3 |
| TUR BU | 5,590 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 7 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 1 |
| WID F | 41 |
| WID M | 15 |
| WID TOT | 56 |
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: 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 44, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-44-pe003004-1881/.