Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: King's
Township 55, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township 55 was a census subdivision in King's County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,470. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.283°N, 62.481°W.
Population
In 1881, Township 55 had a population of 1,470: 748 male and 722 female residents. Population density was 40.5 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 55 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 86 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 225 |
| Number of families | 225 |
| Number of females | 722 |
| Number of males | 748 |
| Number of married females | 187 |
| Number of married males | 187 |
| Number of married persons | 374 |
| Number of widowed females | 41 |
| Number of widowed males | 14 |
| Number of widowed persons | 55 |
| POP TOT | 1,470 |
| Total population | 1,470 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 494 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 547 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 1,041 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 12 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 224 |
| Number of occupied houses | 224 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 3 |
Agriculture (25 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,683 |
| Acres of potatoes | 690 |
| Acres of wheat | 606 |
| BAR BU | 2,088 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 2,088 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 700 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 176 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 3 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 36,547 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 143 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 42 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 102,098 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 7,262 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 8,405 |
| BWT BU | 700 |
| CRN BU | 3 |
| HAY AC | 1,683 |
| HAY TONS | 2,087 |
| OAT BU | 36,547 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 42 |
| POT AC | 690 |
| POT BU | 102,098 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 2,087 |
| WHT AC | 606 |
| WHT SP BU | 7,262 |
Fisheries (11 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 10 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 307 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 514 |
| Barrels of shad produced in the past year | 1 |
| Barrels of trout produced in the past year | 4 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 861 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 45 |
| Number of fishing boats | 63 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 80 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 177 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 20 |
Other recorded variables (31 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 307 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 80 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 63 |
| C UNMD F | 494 |
| C UNMD M | 547 |
| C UNMD TOT | 1,041 |
| CD NAME | King's |
| COD DX K | 177 |
| D OCC | 224 |
| EEL XB Q | 10 |
| FEMALE | 722 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 45 |
| GRA BU | 176 |
| H CON | 12 |
| H INHAB | 224 |
| H UNINH | 3 |
| HAD DX K | 20 |
| MALE | 748 |
| MCK XB Q | 514 |
| MD F | 187 |
| MD M | 187 |
| MD TOT | 374 |
| NET XX F | 861 |
| NUMBER CD | 3 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 143 |
| SHD XB Q | 1 |
| TRT XB Q | 4 |
| TUR BU | 8,405 |
| WID F | 41 |
| WID M | 14 |
| WID TOT | 55 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE003012 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE001015 — 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 55, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-55-pe003012-1881/.