Township No. 19, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township No. 19 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,608. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259879. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.431°N, 63.669°W.
Population
In 1881, Township No. 19 had a population of 1,608: 815 male and 793 female residents.
Population trajectory across census years
| Year | Population |
|---|---|
| 1871 | 1,371 |
| 1881 | 1,608 |
| 1891 | 1,753 |
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. 19 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 44 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.
Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 1,608 total population, 815 males, 793 females, 453 married persons, 264 families, 227 married males, 226 married females, 51 widowed persons, 33 widowed females, 18 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,104 single persons under 18, 570 single males under 18, 534 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 257 occupied houses, 255 inhabited houses, 2 dwellings that are temporary shanties, 2 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 132,050 bushels of potatoes, 90,508 bushels of oats, 28,370 bushels of turnips, 12,624 bushels of spring wheat, 3,571 tons of hay, 2,479 acres of hay crops, 1,571 bushels of buckwheat, 1,041 bushels of barley, 788 acres of potatoes, 788 acres of wheat, 401 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 162 bushels of other root crops, 73 bushels of peas and beans, 10 bushels of rye, 1 bushels of corn. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)
Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 1,875 barrels of mackerel, 515 barrels of herring or alewives, 199 quintals of cod, 178 fathoms of fishing nets, 87 men on fishing boats, 55 fishing boats, 15 shoremen, 2 barrels of eels, 1 barrels of trout, 1 quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.) The 1881 enumerator also recorded 12,300 pounds of lobster canned, 1,950 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.
| Name | Lifespan | Connection |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander Laird | 1830–1896 | died here |
Residents in 1881
The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 1,608 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:
PE001020— year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file - Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE135020— computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years - Wikidata: Q3259879
- Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_19,_Prince_Edward_Island
- Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_19
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. 19, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-19-pe001020-1881/.