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Year: 1871  |  Province: Prince Edward Island  |  Wikidata: Q3259902

Township No. 33, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)

Township No. 33 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 1,219. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259902. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.358°N, 63.172°W.

Population

In 1871, Township No. 33 had a population of 1,219.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18711,219
18811,332
18911,279

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. 33 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 90 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 9 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 1,219 total population, 373 married persons, 185 families. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 624 persons neither infected with smallpox nor vaccinated, 846 single persons, 2 insane persons, 7 persons married, 33 births — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Age structure (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 87 males aged under 5, 189 males aged 5 to 16, 76 males aged 16 to 21, 155 males aged 21 to 45, 63 males aged 45 to 60, 39 males over 60, 92 females aged 0 to 5, 176 females aged 5 to 16, 82 females aged 16 to 21, 166 females aged 21-45, 57 females aged 45-60, 37 females over 60 — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Ethnic origin (1871). This community's record includes 46 persons originating in Scotland, 12 persons originating in Ireland, 1 persons originating in all other places. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 104 persons originating in England, 23 persons originating in the British Provinces, 1,033 persons originating in Prince Edward Island — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Religion (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 144 members of the Church of England, 158 members of the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces, 342 members of the Kirk of Scotland, 90 Roman Catholics, 160 Methodists, 7 Baptists, 318 Bible Christians — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Buildings & housing (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 8 churches, 6 schoolhouses — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 91,190 bushels of oats, 68,000 bushels of potatoes, 38,624 bushels of turnips, 28,863 pounds of homemade butter, 10,514 bushels of barley, 6,633 bushels of wheat, 5,555 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 3,249 sheep, 2,333 tons of hay, 1,246 bushels of buckwheat, 898 swine, 554 horses, 116 bushels of other root crops, 52 bushels of peas, 11 bushels of beans. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 60 pounds of flax, 702 acres of farmland fertilized with shell manure, 3,529 acres of farmland fertilized with lime, 84 farming mills, 64 hay mowing machines, 88 hay-making machines, 2 hay elevators, 35 mud-digging machines, 42 other machines, 83 threshing machines, 1,304 cattle, 7,823 acres of farmland owned, 9,352 acres of farmland rented, 50 acres of farmland held by verbal agreement, 50 acres of farmland neither owned nor rented, 59 persons holding farmland of first quality, 90 persons holding farmland of second quality, 23 persons holding farmland of third quality, 11,421 acres of farmland in arable land, 98 bushels of clover seed, 362 bushels of timothy grass seed, $£300 s0 d0 value apples and other fruits — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Manufacturing & industry (1871). This community's record includes 3,069 yards of fulled cloth, 2 grist mills, 1 carding and fulling mills, 1 saw mills. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 13 stamping machines, 296 carts, trucks, and truck-wagons, 358 riding wagons, carriages, wood sleds, and jaunting sleds, 4,653 yards of not-fulled cloth, 1 fulling and dressing mills, 2 shingle and lath mills, 5 lime kilns, 3,214 barrels of lime, 7,677 yards of cloth, 14 sewing machines, 31 pianos, melodeons, and organs — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Fisheries (1871). This community's record includes 2 barrels of mackerel. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 12 quintals of codfish or hake — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Deaths & mortality (1871). This community's record includes 11 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. 33, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-33-pe002012-1871/.