Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: Queen's
Township No. 22, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township No. 22 was a township in Queen's County, Prince Edward Island (Canada West / Ontario), recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,556. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.406°N, 63.404°W.
Population
In 1881, Township No. 22 had a population of 1,556: 781 male and 775 female residents.
Population trajectory across census years
| Year | Population |
|---|
| 1871 | 1,411 |
| 1881 | 1,556 |
| 1891 | 1,466 |
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. 22 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 | 253 |
| Number of families | 253 |
| Number of females | 775 |
| Number of males | 781 |
| Number of married females | 211 |
| Number of married males | 210 |
| Number of married persons | 421 |
| Number of widowed females | 38 |
| Number of widowed males | 23 |
| Number of widowed persons | 61 |
| POP TOT | 1,556 |
| Total population | 1,556 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 526 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 548 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 1,074 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 2 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 253 |
| Number of occupied houses | 253 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 7 |
Agriculture (25 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 2,606 |
| Acres of potatoes | 712 |
| Acres of wheat | 878 |
| BAR BU | 3,050 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 3,050 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 1,823 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 417 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 12 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 83,116 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 7 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 38 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 101,264 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 11,592 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 29,712 |
| BWT BU | 1,823 |
| CRN BU | 12 |
| HAY AC | 2,606 |
| HAY TONS | 2,709 |
| OAT BU | 83,116 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 38 |
| POT AC | 712 |
| POT BU | 101,264 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 2,709 |
| WHT AC | 878 |
| WHT SP BU | 11,592 |
Fisheries (11 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 2 |
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 8 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 200 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 1,558 |
| Barrels of shad produced in the past year | 1 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 317 |
| Number of fishing boats | 10 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 32 |
| Number of shoremen | 6 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 217 |
| Quintals of fascines fish produced in the past year | 3 |
Other recorded variables (31 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 200 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 32 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 10 |
| C UNMD F | 526 |
| C UNMD M | 548 |
| C UNMD TOT | 1,074 |
| CD NAME | Queen's |
| COD DX K | 217 |
| D OCC | 253 |
| EEL XB Q | 2 |
| FASCINE FISH Q | 3 |
| FEMALE | 775 |
| GRA BU | 417 |
| GSP XB Q | 8 |
| H CON | 2 |
| H INHAB | 253 |
| H UNINH | 7 |
| MALE | 781 |
| MCK XB Q | 1,558 |
| MD F | 211 |
| MD M | 210 |
| MD TOT | 421 |
| NET XX F | 317 |
| NUMBER CD | 2 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 7 |
| SHD XB Q | 1 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 6 |
| TUR BU | 29,712 |
| WID F | 38 |
| WID M | 23 |
| WID TOT | 61 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE002004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE136004 — 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. 22, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-22-pe002004-1881/.