Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: Queen's
Township No. 21, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township No. 21 was a township in Queen's County, Prince Edward Island (Canada West / Ontario), recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,871. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.443°N, 63.481°W.
Population
In 1881, Township No. 21 had a population of 1,871: 944 male and 927 female residents.
Population trajectory across census years
| Year | Population |
|---|
| 1871 | 1,569 |
| 1881 | 1,871 |
| 1891 | 1,700 |
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. 21 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 86 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 302 |
| Number of families | 302 |
| Number of females | 927 |
| Number of males | 944 |
| Number of married females | 271 |
| Number of married males | 273 |
| Number of married persons | 544 |
| Number of widowed females | 37 |
| Number of widowed males | 19 |
| Number of widowed persons | 56 |
| POP TOT | 1,871 |
| Total population | 1,871 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 619 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 652 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 1,271 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 3 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 285 |
| Number of occupied houses | 285 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 1 |
Agriculture (23 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 2,282 |
| Acres of potatoes | 587 |
| Acres of wheat | 997 |
| BAR BU | 1,521 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 1,521 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 938 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 456 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 69,755 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 721 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 5 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 92,558 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 16,209 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 20,663 |
| BWT BU | 938 |
| HAY AC | 2,282 |
| HAY TONS | 2,814 |
| OAT BU | 69,755 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 5 |
| POT AC | 587 |
| POT BU | 92,558 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 2,814 |
| WHT AC | 997 |
| WHT SP BU | 16,209 |
Fisheries (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 4 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 1,852 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 4,570 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 105 |
| Barrels of oysters produced in the past year | 2 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 1,394 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 169 |
| Number of fishing boats | 102 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 226 |
| Number of shoremen | 26 |
| Pounds of lobster canned in the past year | 96,000 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 587 |
Other recorded variables (32 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 1,852 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 226 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 102 |
| C UNMD F | 619 |
| C UNMD M | 652 |
| C UNMD TOT | 1,271 |
| CD NAME | Queen's |
| COD DX K | 587 |
| D OCC | 285 |
| EEL XB Q | 4 |
| FEMALE | 927 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 169 |
| GRA BU | 456 |
| H CON | 3 |
| H INHAB | 285 |
| H UNINH | 1 |
| LOB XC P | 96,000 |
| MALE | 944 |
| MCK XB Q | 4,570 |
| MD F | 271 |
| MD M | 273 |
| MD TOT | 544 |
| NET XX F | 1,394 |
| NUMBER CD | 2 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 105 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 721 |
| OYS XB Q | 2 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 26 |
| TUR BU | 20,663 |
| WID F | 37 |
| WID M | 19 |
| WID TOT | 56 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE002003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE136003 — 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. 21, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-21-pe002003-1881/.