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Year: 1881  |  Province: Prince Edward Island  |  County: King's

Township 46, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)

Township 46 was a census subdivision in King's County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,095. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.421°N, 62.184°W.

Population

In 1881, Township 46 had a population of 1,095: 568 male and 527 female residents. Population density was 33.0 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1871860
18811,095
18911,075
19011,018
1911972
1921749

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 46 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 80 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)
VariableValue
FAM NO186
Number of families186
Number of females527
Number of males568
Number of married females138
Number of married males138
Number of married persons276
Number of widowed females28
Number of widowed males15
Number of widowed persons43
POP TOT1,095
Total population1,095
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18361
Number of single males under 18415
Number of single persons under 18776
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
VariableValue
Number of houses under construction6
Number of inhabited houses186
Number of occupied houses186
Number of uninhabited houses1
Agriculture (21 variables)
VariableValue
Acres of hay crops1,012
Acres of potatoes382
Acres of wheat276
BAR BU1,658
Bushels of barley produced in the past year1,658
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year76
Bushels of oats produced in the past year27,923
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year17
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year1
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year50,151
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year3,989
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year1,134
HAY AC1,012
HAY TONS1,176
OAT BU27,923
PEA AND BEN BU1
POT AC382
POT BU50,151
Tons of hay produced in the past year1,176
WHT AC276
WHT SP BU3,989
Fisheries (10 variables)
VariableValue
Barrels of halibut produced in the past year4
Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year335
Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year1,894
Fathoms of fishing nets3,299
Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year744
Number of fishing boats108
Number of men on fishing boats163
Number of shoremen5
Quintals of cod produced in the past year1,456
Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year987
Other recorded variables (30 variables)
VariableValue
BBL HERR OR ALE335
BOAT MEN Q163
BOATS FOR FISH108
C UNMD F361
C UNMD M415
C UNMD TOT776
CD NAMEKing's
COD DX K1,456
D OCC186
FEMALE527
GAL FISH OIL744
GRA BU76
H CON6
H INHAB186
H UNINH1
HAD DX K987
HAL XB Q4
MALE568
MCK XB Q1,894
MD F138
MD M138
MD TOT276
NET XX F3,299
NUMBER CD3
OTHR ROOT BU17
SHOREMEN XX Q5
TUR BU1,134
WID F28
WID M15
WID TOT43

Identifiers

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 46, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-46-pe003002-1881/.