Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: Prince
Township 6, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township 6 was a census subdivision in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,100. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.717°N, 64.171°W.
Population
In 1881, Township 6 had a population of 1,100: 538 male and 562 female residents. Population density was 38.8 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 6 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 | 179 |
| Number of families | 179 |
| Number of females | 562 |
| Number of males | 538 |
| Number of married females | 165 |
| Number of married males | 164 |
| Number of married persons | 329 |
| Number of widowed females | 20 |
| Number of widowed males | 10 |
| Number of widowed persons | 30 |
| POP TOT | 1,100 |
| Total population | 1,100 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 377 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 364 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 741 |
Buildings & housing (5 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties | 2 |
| Number of houses under construction | 4 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 177 |
| Number of occupied houses | 179 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 1 |
Agriculture (25 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 898 |
| Acres of potatoes | 298 |
| Acres of wheat | 524 |
| BAR BU | 919 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 919 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 1,040 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 110 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 64 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 24,224 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 16 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 22 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 37,840 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 7,105 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 6,395 |
| BWT BU | 1,040 |
| CRN BU | 64 |
| HAY AC | 898 |
| HAY TONS | 980 |
| OAT BU | 24,224 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 22 |
| POT AC | 298 |
| POT BU | 37,840 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 980 |
| WHT AC | 524 |
| WHT SP BU | 7,105 |
Fisheries (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 7 |
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 9 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 40 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 736 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 180 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 22 |
| Number of fishing boats | 4 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 13 |
| Number of shoremen | 2 |
| Pounds of lobster canned in the past year | 24,000 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 42 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 5 |
Other recorded variables (33 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 40 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 13 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 4 |
| C UNMD F | 377 |
| C UNMD M | 364 |
| C UNMD TOT | 741 |
| CD NAME | Prince |
| COD DX K | 42 |
| D OCC | 179 |
| EEL XB Q | 7 |
| FEMALE | 562 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 22 |
| GRA BU | 110 |
| GSP XB Q | 9 |
| H CON | 4 |
| H INHAB | 177 |
| H UNINH | 1 |
| HAD DX K | 5 |
| LOB XC P | 24,000 |
| MALE | 538 |
| MCK XB Q | 736 |
| MD F | 165 |
| MD M | 164 |
| MD TOT | 329 |
| NET XX F | 180 |
| NUMBER CD | 1 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 16 |
| SHAN | 2 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 2 |
| TUR BU | 6,395 |
| WID F | 20 |
| WID M | 10 |
| WID TOT | 30 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE001006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE002006 — 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 6, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-6-pe001006-1881/.