Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: Prince
Township No. 15, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township No. 15 was a township in Prince County, Prince Edward Island (Canada West / Ontario), recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,908. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.441°N, 64.066°W.
Population
In 1881, Township No. 15 had a population of 1,908: 985 male and 923 female residents.
Population trajectory across census years
| Year | Population |
|---|
| 1871 | 1,550 |
| 1881 | 1,908 |
| 1891 | 2,062 |
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. 15 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 | 268 |
| Number of families | 268 |
| Number of females | 923 |
| Number of males | 985 |
| Number of married females | 305 |
| Number of married males | 305 |
| Number of married persons | 610 |
| Number of widowed females | 29 |
| Number of widowed males | 31 |
| Number of widowed persons | 60 |
| POP TOT | 1,908 |
| Total population | 1,908 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 589 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 649 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 1,238 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 19 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 268 |
| Number of occupied houses | 268 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 15 |
Agriculture (27 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,046 |
| Acres of potatoes | 562 |
| Acres of wheat | 732 |
| BAR BU | 2,691 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 2,691 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 3,058 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 133 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 893 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 33,408 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 220 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 134 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 79,576 |
| Bushels of rye produced in the past year | 6 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 9,544 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 7,559 |
| BWT BU | 3,058 |
| CRN BU | 893 |
| HAY AC | 1,046 |
| HAY TONS | 1,101 |
| OAT BU | 33,408 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 134 |
| POT AC | 562 |
| POT BU | 79,576 |
| RYE BU | 6 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,101 |
| WHT AC | 732 |
| WHT SP BU | 9,544 |
Fisheries (14 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 10 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 1,588 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 1,761 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 1 |
| Barrels of oysters produced in the past year | 1,196 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 3,819 |
| Number of fishing boats | 88 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 1 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 211 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 2 |
| Number of shoremen | 4 |
| Pounds of lobster canned in the past year | 140,000 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 61 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 1 |
Other recorded variables (34 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 1,588 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 211 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 88 |
| C UNMD F | 589 |
| C UNMD M | 649 |
| C UNMD TOT | 1,238 |
| CD NAME | Prince |
| COD DX K | 61 |
| D OCC | 268 |
| EEL XB Q | 10 |
| FEMALE | 923 |
| GRA BU | 133 |
| H CON | 19 |
| H INHAB | 268 |
| H UNINH | 15 |
| HAD DX K | 1 |
| LOB XC P | 140,000 |
| MALE | 985 |
| MCK XB Q | 1,761 |
| MD F | 305 |
| MD M | 305 |
| MD TOT | 610 |
| NET XX F | 3,819 |
| NUMBER CD | 1 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 1 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 220 |
| OYS XB Q | 1,196 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 4 |
| TUR BU | 7,559 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 2 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 1 |
| WID F | 29 |
| WID M | 31 |
| WID TOT | 60 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE001015 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE135016 — 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 No. 15, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-15-pe001015-1881/.