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Year: 1871  |  Province: Prince Edward Island  |  Wikidata: Q3259884

Township No. 22, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)

Township No. 22 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 1,411. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259884. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.406°N, 63.404°W.

Population

In 1871, Township No. 22 had a population of 1,411.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18711,411
18811,556
18911,466

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. 22 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 95 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 9 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 1,411 total population, 391 married persons, 223 families. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 1 deaf and dumb persons, 1,048 persons neither infected with smallpox nor vaccinated, 1,020 single persons, 13 persons married, 30 births — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Age structure (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 107 males aged under 5, 185 males aged 5 to 16, 92 males aged 16 to 21, 211 males aged 21 to 45, 67 males aged 45 to 60, 54 males over 60, 102 females aged 0 to 5, 190 females aged 5 to 16, 96 females aged 16 to 21, 194 females aged 21-45, 67 females aged 45-60, 46 females over 60 — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Ethnic origin (1871). This community's record includes 137 persons originating in Scotland, 102 persons originating in Ireland. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 8 persons originating in England, 2 persons originating in the British Provinces, 1,162 persons originating in Prince Edward Island — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Religion (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 50 members of the Church of England, 576 members of the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces, 18 members of the Kirk of Scotland, 606 Roman Catholics, 86 Methodists, 64 Baptists, 11 Bible Christians — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Buildings & housing (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 2 churches, 8 schoolhouses — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 61,950 bushels of oats, 55,980 bushels of potatoes, 16,519 pounds of homemade butter, 8,930 bushels of turnips, 5,812 bushels of barley, 5,442 bushels of wheat, 2,875 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 2,715 sheep, 1,280 tons of hay, 1,100 bushels of buckwheat, 1,062 swine, 482 horses, 12 bushels of other root crops, 3 bushels of beans, 2 bushels of corn, 1 bushels of peas. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 2,738 acres of farmland owned, 15,246 acres of farmland rented, 102 acres of farmland held by verbal agreement, 523 acres of farmland neither owned nor rented, 29 persons holding farmland of first quality, 193 persons holding farmland of second quality, 7,558 acres of farmland in arable land, 703 bushels of clover seed, 133 bushels of timothy grass seed, $£45 s15 d0 value apples and other fruits, 228 pounds of flax, 1,146 acres of farmland fertilized with shell manure, 444 acres of farmland fertilized with lime, 19 farming mills, 13 hay mowing machines, 2 hay-making machines, 5 hay elevators, 39 mud-digging machines, 14 other machines, 26 threshing machines, 1,076 cattle — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Manufacturing & industry (1871). This community's record includes 2,812 yards of fulled cloth, 4 saw mills, 3 grist mills, 2 carding and fulling mills, 1 tanneries. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 2 stamping machines, 148 carts, trucks, and truck-wagons, 457 riding wagons, carriages, wood sleds, and jaunting sleds, 6,911 yards of not-fulled cloth, 1,200 pounds of leather produced in tanneries, 1 shingle and lath mills, 2 lime kilns, 2 brick kilns, 9,680 yards of cloth, 5 sewing machines, 1 pianos, melodeons, and organs — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Fisheries (1871). This community's record includes 251 barrels of mackerel, 117 barrels of herring or alewives, 20 gallons of fish oil, 10 fishing boats. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 3 fishing establishments, 27 quintals of codfish or hake, 20 men employed in fishing — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Deaths & mortality (1871). This community's record includes 12 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. 22, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-22-pe002003-1871/.