Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: King's
Township 56, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township 56 was a census subdivision in King's County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 941. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.322°N, 62.425°W.
Population
In 1881, Township 56 had a population of 941: 465 male and 476 female residents. Population density was 28.0 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 56 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 90 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 151 |
| Number of families | 151 |
| Number of females | 476 |
| Number of males | 465 |
| Number of married females | 135 |
| Number of married males | 132 |
| Number of married persons | 267 |
| Number of widowed females | 26 |
| Number of widowed males | 8 |
| Number of widowed persons | 34 |
| POP TOT | 941 |
| Total population | 941 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 315 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 325 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 640 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 2 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 151 |
| Number of occupied houses | 151 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 4 |
Agriculture (25 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 988 |
| Acres of potatoes | 398 |
| Acres of wheat | 352 |
| BAR BU | 1,130 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 1,130 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 154 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 168 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 8 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 30,000 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 238 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 27 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 70,183 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 4,443 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 8,169 |
| BWT BU | 154 |
| CRN BU | 8 |
| HAY AC | 988 |
| HAY TONS | 1,436 |
| OAT BU | 30,000 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 27 |
| POT AC | 398 |
| POT BU | 70,183 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,436 |
| WHT AC | 352 |
| WHT SP BU | 4,443 |
Fisheries (13 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 3 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 86 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 721 |
| Barrels of trout produced in the past year | 3 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 495 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 9 |
| Number of fishing boats | 34 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 1 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 58 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 3 |
| Pounds of lobster canned in the past year | 140,000 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 33 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 14 |
Other recorded variables (33 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 86 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 58 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 34 |
| C UNMD F | 315 |
| C UNMD M | 325 |
| C UNMD TOT | 640 |
| CD NAME | King's |
| COD DX K | 33 |
| D OCC | 151 |
| EEL XB Q | 3 |
| FEMALE | 476 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 9 |
| GRA BU | 168 |
| H CON | 2 |
| H INHAB | 151 |
| H UNINH | 4 |
| HAD DX K | 14 |
| LOB XC P | 140,000 |
| MALE | 465 |
| MCK XB Q | 721 |
| MD F | 135 |
| MD M | 132 |
| MD TOT | 267 |
| NET XX F | 495 |
| NUMBER CD | 3 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 238 |
| TRT XB Q | 3 |
| TUR BU | 8,169 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 3 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 1 |
| WID F | 26 |
| WID M | 8 |
| WID TOT | 34 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE003011 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE001016 — 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 56, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-56-pe003011-1881/.