Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: Prince
Township 7, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township 7 was a census subdivision in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,073. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.724°N, 64.343°W.
Population
In 1881, Township 7 had a population of 1,073: 536 male and 537 female residents. Population density was 33.1 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 7 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 94 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 158 |
| Number of families | 158 |
| Number of females | 537 |
| Number of males | 536 |
| Number of married females | 137 |
| Number of married males | 134 |
| Number of married persons | 271 |
| Number of widowed females | 20 |
| Number of widowed males | 7 |
| Number of widowed persons | 27 |
| POP TOT | 1,073 |
| Total population | 1,073 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 380 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 395 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 775 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties | 6 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 150 |
| Number of occupied houses | 156 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 4 |
Agriculture (25 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,672 |
| Acres of potatoes | 341 |
| Acres of wheat | 794 |
| BAR BU | 1,160 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 1,160 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 1,557 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 174 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 12 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 39,197 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 81 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 46 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 48,767 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 9,707 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 4,956 |
| BWT BU | 1,557 |
| CRN BU | 12 |
| HAY AC | 1,672 |
| HAY TONS | 1,481 |
| OAT BU | 39,197 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 46 |
| POT AC | 341 |
| POT BU | 48,767 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,481 |
| WHT AC | 794 |
| WHT SP BU | 9,707 |
Fisheries (15 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 2 |
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 10 |
| Barrels of halibut produced in the past year | 1 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 82 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 721 |
| Barrels of oysters produced in the past year | 10 |
| Barrels of sardines produced in the past year | 1 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 742 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 70 |
| Number of fishing boats | 26 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 1 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 35 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 4 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 119 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 150 |
Other recorded variables (35 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 82 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 35 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 26 |
| C UNMD F | 380 |
| C UNMD M | 395 |
| C UNMD TOT | 775 |
| CD NAME | Prince |
| COD DX K | 119 |
| D OCC | 156 |
| EEL XB Q | 2 |
| FEMALE | 537 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 70 |
| GRA BU | 174 |
| GSP XB Q | 10 |
| H INHAB | 150 |
| H UNINH | 4 |
| HAD DX K | 150 |
| HAL XB Q | 1 |
| MALE | 536 |
| MCK XB Q | 721 |
| MD F | 137 |
| MD M | 134 |
| MD TOT | 271 |
| NET XX F | 742 |
| NUMBER CD | 1 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 81 |
| OYS XB Q | 10 |
| SAR XB Q | 1 |
| SHAN | 6 |
| TUR BU | 4,956 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 4 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 1 |
| WID F | 20 |
| WID M | 7 |
| WID TOT | 27 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE001007 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE002007 — 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 7, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-7-pe001007-1881/.