Township No. 1, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)

Township No. 1 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,787. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259881. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.970°N, 64.070°W.

Population

In 1881, Township No. 1 had a population of 2,787: 1,394 male and 1,393 female residents.

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 No. 1 shared boundaries with:

• Township No. 2

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 45 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 2,787 total population, 1,394 males, 1,393 females, 850 married persons, 455 families, 428 married females, 422 married males, 72 widowed persons, 48 widowed females, 24 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,865 single persons under 18, 948 single males under 18, 917 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 451 inhabited houses, 451 occupied houses, 10 houses under construction, 3 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 164,245 bushels of potatoes, 63,762 bushels of oats, 15,067 bushels of spring wheat, 14,330 bushels of turnips, 3,548 bushels of barley, 1,674 acres of hay crops, 1,662 tons of hay, 1,187 acres of wheat, 1,101 acres of potatoes, 886 bushels of buckwheat, 316 bushels of corn, 194 bushels of other root crops, 104 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 68 bushels of peas and beans. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 23,663 barrels of mackerel, 4,540 fathoms of fishing nets, 2,536 barrels of herring or alewives, 1,272 quintals of cod, 604 men on fishing boats, 458 gallons of fish oil, 308 fishing boats, 276 quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock, 82 shoremen, 12 men on fishing vessels, 4 barrels of eels, 4 fishing vessels. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 43,580 pounds of lobster canned, 124,984 barrels of oysters — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 1 person connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 2,787 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: PE001001 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_PE135002 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3259881
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_1,_Prince_Edward_Island
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_1

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 No. 1, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-1-pe001001-1881/.