Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: Prince
Township No. 26, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township No. 26 was a township in Prince County, Prince Edward Island (Canada West / Ontario), recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,346. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.340°N, 63.689°W.
Population
In 1881, Township No. 26 had a population of 1,346: 663 male and 683 female residents.
Population trajectory across census years
| Year | Population |
|---|
| 1871 | 1,295 |
| 1881 | 1,346 |
| 1891 | 1,278 |
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. 26 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 88 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 217 |
| Number of families | 217 |
| Number of females | 683 |
| Number of males | 663 |
| Number of married females | 182 |
| Number of married males | 184 |
| Number of married persons | 366 |
| Number of widowed females | 24 |
| Number of widowed males | 26 |
| Number of widowed persons | 50 |
| POP TOT | 1,346 |
| Total population | 1,346 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 477 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 453 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 930 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 4 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 214 |
| Number of occupied houses | 214 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 15 |
Agriculture (27 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 2,604 |
| Acres of potatoes | 608 |
| Acres of wheat | 698 |
| BAR BU | 1,494 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 1,494 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 3,368 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 410 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 10 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 86,050 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 2,515 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 91 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 115,392 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 10,571 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 25,980 |
| Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year | 10 |
| BWT BU | 3,368 |
| CRN BU | 10 |
| HAY AC | 2,604 |
| HAY TONS | 3,492 |
| OAT BU | 86,050 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 91 |
| POT AC | 608 |
| POT BU | 115,392 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 3,492 |
| WHT AC | 698 |
| WHT SP BU | 10,571 |
| WHT WTR BU | 10 |
Fisheries (11 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 1 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 14 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 75 |
| Barrels of other fish produced in the past year | 22 |
| Barrels of oysters produced in the past year | 74 |
| Barrels of trout produced in the past year | 1 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 74 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 1 |
| Number of fishing boats | 16 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 30 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 5 |
Other recorded variables (31 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 14 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 30 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 16 |
| C UNMD F | 477 |
| C UNMD M | 453 |
| C UNMD TOT | 930 |
| CD NAME | Prince |
| COD DX K | 5 |
| D OCC | 214 |
| EEL XB Q | 1 |
| FEMALE | 683 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 1 |
| GRA BU | 410 |
| H CON | 4 |
| H INHAB | 214 |
| H UNINH | 15 |
| MALE | 663 |
| MCK XB Q | 75 |
| MD F | 182 |
| MD M | 184 |
| MD TOT | 366 |
| NET XX F | 74 |
| NUMBER CD | 1 |
| OTHFISH XB Q | 22 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 2,515 |
| OYS XB Q | 74 |
| TRT XB Q | 1 |
| TUR BU | 25,980 |
| WID F | 24 |
| WID M | 26 |
| WID TOT | 50 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE001022 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE135022 — 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. 26, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-26-pe001022-1881/.