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Year: 1871  |  Province: Prince Edward Island  |  Wikidata: Q3259868

Township No. 12, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)

Township No. 12 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 560. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259868. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.618°N, 63.941°W.

Population

In 1871, Township No. 12 had a population of 560.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1871560
1881843
1891963

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Earlier boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, Township No. 12 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 94 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 9 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 560 total population, 157 married persons, 88 families. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 369 persons neither infected with smallpox nor vaccinated, 403 single persons, 1 insane persons, 4 persons married, 29 births — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Age structure (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 57 males aged under 5, 89 males aged 5 to 16, 25 males aged 16 to 21, 97 males aged 21 to 45, 25 males aged 45 to 60, 14 males over 60, 50 females aged 0 to 5, 50 females aged 5 to 16, 37 females aged 16 to 21, 86 females aged 21-45, 21 females aged 45-60, 9 females over 60 — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Ethnic origin (1871). This community's record includes 12 persons originating in Scotland, 6 persons originating in Ireland, 1 persons originating in all other places. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 17 persons originating in England, 44 persons originating in the British Provinces, 480 persons originating in Prince Edward Island — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Religion (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 149 members of the Church of England, 149 members of the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces, 20 members of the Kirk of Scotland, 94 Roman Catholics, 16 Methodists, 7 Baptists, 123 Bible Christians, 2 members of other denominations — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Buildings & housing (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 2 churches, 2 schoolhouses — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 11,092 bushels of potatoes, 8,258 bushels of oats, 6,967 pounds of homemade butter, 1,036 bushels of wheat, 711 bushels of buckwheat, 588 sheep, 471 bushels of turnips, 430 bushels of barley, 321 tons of hay, 251 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 200 swine, 129 horses, 12 bushels of beans, 11 bushels of corn, 6 bushels of other root crops, 5 bushels of peas. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 2,056.50 acres of farmland owned, 6,000 acres of farmland rented, 789 acres of farmland held by verbal agreement, 1 acres of farmland neither owned nor rented, 20 persons holding farmland of first quality, 36 persons holding farmland of second quality, 14 persons holding farmland of third quality, 2,171 acres of farmland in arable land, 5.50 bushels of clover seed, 23 bushels of timothy grass seed, $£23 s16 d0 value apples and other fruits, 180 pounds of flax, 88 acres of farmland fertilized with shell manure, 4 farming mills, 1 hay mowing machines, 6 mud-digging machines, 99 other machines, 24 threshing machines, 316 cattle — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Manufacturing & industry (1871). This community's record includes 577 yards of fulled cloth, 2 carding and fulling mills, 2 saw mills, 1 grist mills. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 1 flax manufactories, 37 carts, trucks, and truck-wagons, 155 riding wagons, carriages, wood sleds, and jaunting sleds, 3,120 yards of not-fulled cloth, 1 shingle and lath mills, 14 carriages and sleighs, 2,886 yards of cloth, 4 sewing machines, 1 pianos, melodeons, and organs — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Fisheries (1871). This community's record includes 265 barrels of herring or alewives, 61 gallons of fish oil, 16 fishing boats, 4 barrels of mackerel. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 1 fishing establishments, 233 quintals of codfish or hake, 11 men employed in fishing, 900 fishing barrels, 3 cooper's shops — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Deaths & mortality (1871). This community's record includes 9 total number of deaths. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1871 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. 12, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-12-pe001012-1871/.