Township 51, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)

Name: Township 51 (1881)
Address: Prince Edward Island, CA

Township 51 was a census subdivision in King's County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,106. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.221°N, 62.722°W.

Population

In 1881, Township 51 had a population of 1,106: 571 male and 535 female residents. Population density was 39.3 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	1,093
1881	1,106
1891	1,110
1901	1,007
1911	995
1921	785

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 51 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 68 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	175
Number of families	175
Number of females	535
Number of males	571
Number of married females	147
Number of married males	143
Number of married persons	290
Number of widowed females	30
Number of widowed males	6
Number of widowed persons	36
POP TOT	1,106
Total population	1,106

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	358
Number of single males under 18	422
Number of single persons under 18	780

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	1
Number of inhabited houses	175
Number of occupied houses	175
Number of uninhabited houses	12

Agriculture (23 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	2,111
Acres of potatoes	759
Acres of wheat	668
BAR BU	369
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	369
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	432
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	204
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	50,048
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	418
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	32
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	118,300
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	8,001
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	20,304
BWT BU	432
HAY AC	2,111
HAY TONS	2,077
OAT BU	50,048
PEA AND BEN BU	32
POT AC	759
POT BU	118,300
Tons of hay produced in the past year	2,077
WHT AC	668
WHT SP BU	8,001

Fisheries (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of eels produced in the past year	2
Barrels of trout produced in the past year	2
Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year	3

Other recorded variables (23 variables)

Variable	Value
C UNMD F	358
C UNMD M	422
C UNMD TOT	780
CD NAME	King's
D OCC	175
EEL XB Q	2
FEMALE	535
GRA BU	204
H CON	1
H INHAB	175
H UNINH	12
HAD DX K	3
MALE	571
MD F	147
MD M	143
MD TOT	290
NUMBER CD	3
OTHR ROOT BU	418
TRT XB Q	2
TUR BU	20,304
WID F	30
WID M	6
WID TOT	36

Identifiers

TCP UID: PE003016 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_PE001011 — 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 51, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-51-pe003016-1881/.