Township 47, Prince Edward Island (1921 census)

Township 47 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1921 Census of Canada with a population of 840. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259923. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.437°N, 62.082°W.

Population

In 1921, Township 47 had a population of 840: 412 male and 428 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 1921

In the 1921 census, Township 47 shared boundaries with:

• Township 46

Full census record, 1921

The 1921 census recorded 19 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1921). This community's record includes 840 total population, 428 females in the population, 417 females born in Canada, 412 males in the population, 401 males born in Canada, 11 males born outside the British Empire, 7 females born outside the British Empire, 4 females born in the British Empire (excluding Canada). (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T16.)

Ethnic origin (1921). This community's record includes 656 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 88 persons of British origin (Irish), 58 persons of British origin (English), 38 persons of French origin. (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T27.)

Religion (1921). This community's record includes 524 Roman Catholics, 255 Baptists, 32 Christians (general / no denomination specified), 14 Presbyterians, 8 Disciples of Christ, 6 adherents of other sects (residual category in 1921), 1 Anglicans (Church of England). (Source: 1921 Census of Canada, V1T38.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: PE001010 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_PE001010 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3259923
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_47,_Prince_Edward_Island
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_47

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1921 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 47, Prince Edward Island (1921 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-47-pe001010-1921/.