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Year: 1871  |  Province: Prince Edward Island  |  Wikidata: Q3259869

Township No. 13, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)

Township No. 13 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 1,103. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259869. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.561°N, 63.969°W.

Population

In 1871, Township No. 13 had a population of 1,103.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18711,103
18811,379
18911,379

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. 13 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 92 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 9 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 1,103 total population, 308 married persons, 200 families. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 883 persons neither infected with smallpox nor vaccinated, 795 single persons, 1 insane persons, 5 persons married, 40 births — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Age structure (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 103 males aged under 5, 172 males aged 5 to 16, 59 males aged 16 to 21, 176 males aged 21 to 45, 38 males aged 45 to 60, 32 males over 60, 107 females aged 0 to 5, 151 females aged 5 to 16, 62 females aged 16 to 21, 158 females aged 21-45, 23 females aged 45-60, 22 females over 60 — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Ethnic origin (1871). This community's record includes 78 Indigenous females, 73 Indigenous males, 13 persons originating in Scotland, 10 persons originating in Ireland, 1 persons originating in all other places. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 70 persons originating in England, 26 persons originating in the British Provinces, 983 persons originating in Prince Edward Island — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Religion (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 210 members of the Church of England, 425 members of the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces, 202 Roman Catholics, 50 Methodists, 20 Baptists, 194 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, 5 schoolhouses — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 39,188 bushels of potatoes, 34,435 bushels of oats, 14,918 pounds of homemade butter, 4,033 bushels of wheat, 3,315 bushels of turnips, 1,805 sheep, 1,432 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 1,397 bushels of buckwheat, 1,209 bushels of barley, 934 tons of hay, 595 swine, 530 horses, 169 bushels of other root crops, 50.50 bushels of peas, 28 bushels of beans, 20 bushels of corn, 15 bushels of winter wheat. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 5,230 acres of farmland owned, 8,113 acres of farmland rented, 1,085 acres of farmland held by verbal agreement, 93 persons holding farmland of first quality, 45 persons holding farmland of second quality, 3 persons holding farmland of third quality, 6,000 acres of farmland in arable land, 37 bushels of clover seed, 58 bushels of timothy grass seed, $£25 s4 d0 value apples and other fruits, 1 bushels of vetches, 193 pounds of flax, 637 acres of farmland fertilized with shell manure, 106 acres of farmland fertilized with lime, 14 farming mills, 5 hay mowing machines, 1 hay elevators, 25 mud-digging machines, 16 other machines, 12 threshing machines, 975 cattle — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Manufacturing & industry (1871). This community's record includes 1,564 yards of fulled cloth, 2 grist mills, 2 saw mills. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 173 carts, trucks, and truck-wagons, 373 riding wagons, carriages, wood sleds, and jaunting sleds, 5,239 yards of not-fulled cloth, 1 lime kilns, 300 barrels of lime, 6,854 yards of cloth, 2 sewing machines, 1 pianos, melodeons, and organs — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Fisheries (1871). This community's record includes 686 barrels of herring or alewives, 50 gallons of fish oil, 15 fishing boats. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 130 quintals of codfish or hake, 18 men employed in fishing — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Deaths & mortality (1871). This community's record includes 10 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. 13, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-13-pe001013-1871/.