Township 54, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)

Name: Township 54 (1881)
Address: Prince Edward Island, CA

Township 54 was a census subdivision in King's County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 915. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.281°N, 62.551°W.

Population

In 1881, Township 54 had a population of 915: 464 male and 451 female residents. Population density was 29.3 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	845
1881	915
1891	1,028
1901	828
1911	762
1921	735

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 54 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 72 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	148
Number of families	148
Number of females	451
Number of males	464
Number of married females	120
Number of married males	120
Number of married persons	240
Number of widowed females	21
Number of widowed males	8
Number of widowed persons	29
POP TOT	915
Total population	915

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	310
Number of single males under 18	336
Number of single persons under 18	646

Buildings & housing (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of inhabited houses	148
Number of occupied houses	148
Number of uninhabited houses	1

Agriculture (23 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	674
Acres of potatoes	394
Acres of wheat	311
BAR BU	980
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	980
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	350
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	69
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	22,192
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	64
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	11
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	62,955
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	3,612
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	4,696
BWT BU	350
HAY AC	674
HAY TONS	929
OAT BU	22,192
PEA AND BEN BU	11
POT AC	394
POT BU	62,955
Tons of hay produced in the past year	929
WHT AC	311
WHT SP BU	3,612

Fisheries (6 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year	69
Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year	78
Barrels of other fish produced in the past year	6
Fathoms of fishing nets	355
Number of fishing boats	8
Number of men on fishing boats	13

Other recorded variables (25 variables)

Variable	Value
BBL HERR OR ALE	69
BOAT MEN Q	13
BOATS FOR FISH	8
C UNMD F	310
C UNMD M	336
C UNMD TOT	646
CD NAME	King's
D OCC	148
FEMALE	451
GRA BU	69
H INHAB	148
H UNINH	1
MALE	464
MCK XB Q	78
MD F	120
MD M	120
MD TOT	240
NET XX F	355
NUMBER CD	3
OTHFISH XB Q	6
OTHR ROOT BU	64
TUR BU	4,696
WID F	21
WID M	8
WID TOT	29

Identifiers

TCP UID: PE003013 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_PE001014 — 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 54, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-54-pe003013-1881/.